Tyra Banks is many things: a television personality, former model, businesswoman, actress, producer, and author. I’m sure we are all familiar with celebrity memoirs, and while two of Banks’ books do fit that description, she is also the author of a work of fiction. Via Giphy In 2011, Tyra Banks published a young adult sci-fi adventure entitled Modelland. On the conception of the novel, Banks said: I’m always dreaming up ideas, like when the words “modeling boarding school” floated into my head while I was driving on the FDR highway in Manhattan. I wrote them down in a little notepad and, five …
In the whole of Sylvia Plath’s career, she only ever published one novel. The Bell Jar is a semi-autobiographical account of a young woman who suffers from a depressive breakdown after returning home from a prestigious editing internship in New York. The bulk of Plath’s work was devoted to poetry, and the original publication of The Bell Jar was done under a pen name. Plath did not want the novel’s reception to detract from her poetic legacy, nor did she want the people who made their way into The Bell Jar as characters to become aware of what Plath had written …
A now-deleted article from Forbes made the careless argument that all taxpayer-funded libraries ought to be shut down in favor of Amazon bookstores. The article went up on Saturday and as of today, attempts to access its former URL bring you to an “error 404” page. The person responsible for this article, Panos Mourdoukoutas, seems to have based his argument on the assumption that libraries are a waste of taxpayer money and that the absolute eradication of these valuable community oases would increase the value of Amazon’s stock, which is of course, of prime concern. Jeff Bezos is really hurting for money y’all, he’s only …
This year’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction longlist includes a graphic novel for the very first time. The novel in question is Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina, which has been praised as “the best book—in any medium—I have read about our current moment” by none other than bestselling novelist Zadie Smith. Image Via The Guardian The novel chronicles the aftermath of a young woman’s disappearance (the titular Sabrina), as her grieving boyfriend and a U.S. Air Force Airman fall down the rabbit hole of conspiracy surrounding what became of her. Should Sabrina win the prize, not only will it be …
HIV Prevention Day is upon us, which means that now is a great time to read up on the history of HIV awareness, get tested, ruminate on the stigmatization of HIV and AIDS, get tested, share relevant literature with your friends, bring them along to get tested, get educated on the ongoing struggle to secure life-saving drugs for all, and also, get tested.
