Catch a conversation with Pulitzer winner Sonia Nazario, author of Enrique’s Journey, with Robin Young of NPR’s Here and Now. Listen as they catch up with Enrique’s continuing struggle to bring his family together in the United States and discuss the many difficulties facing the children pouring into America to reunite with their parents. To listen to Sonia’s interview click HERE.
Read More »
Lisa Genova author of, Still Alice, recently blogged about how the human brain expresses/suppresses emotions. From an early age we’re socialized to hold back what we feel and act according to societal standards. When the brain is attacked, by a disease such as Alzheimer’s, those pathways that prevent emotional expression are destroyed; therefore, the people with Alzheimer’s seem to develop atypical characteristics.
Read More »
A talented writer does not a speaker make. Go to enough literary events, and you’re bound to experience this first hand. You love the work, have read the author’s novels or memoir and recommended the titles to everyone you know. But when you see them in person? Just. Not. The Same. It’s unfortunate, but occasionally it happens. Authors, after all, frequently live an existence of isolation, in communion with the page alone. But as all literary event coordinators know, the best way to ensure success of any community or campus reads programs is to include the author for a community event. But what if the author is a terrible speaker?
Read More »
Books in Common had the opportunity to ask Sarah Wisdom, of One Book Yuma, some questions on setting up their Community Reads programs and the response in her community.
Read More »
BIC reviews, Wool, by Hugh Howey; Gaining Ground, by Forrest Pritchard and The Distance Between Us, by Reyna Grande.
Read More »
Jamie Ford spoke recently to the students of West Kentucky Community and Technical College, at a Campus-wide speaking event arranged by Books In Common.
Read More »
The story of American orphan trains is relatively unknown to the general public, yet shaped the lives of thousands of riders and the people they lived with. By merging history into fiction Christina Baker Kline has reached a whole new audience that enjoys learning while their imaginations are delighted. Which is why Orphan Train is often the most wait-listed book at libraries and has been a book club favorite across the country.
Read More »
Western writer Ivan Doig brings focus to Montana’s history and development in “Sweet Thunder,” which continues the story of Morrie Morgan from “The Whistling Season.” Events and speaking engagements with Ivan draw hundreds of attendees in the West, where he’s a literary icon. “Sweet Thunder” also made it onto the Great Falls Tribune’s list of […]
Read More »
The Great Falls Tribune has collected some of this year’s best books about Montana, or by Montana authors. Included among them is “Songs of Willow Frost” by NYT bestseller Jamie Ford. Catch it here!
Read More »
Ruta Sepetys, author of Between Shades of Grey, and Out of the Easy, was awarded Lithuania’s Cross of the Knight of the Order by the president of Lithuania in a ceremony last month at the Presidential Palace in Vilnius.
The honor was bestowed on Sepetys in recognition for her novel Between Shades of Gray, which takes as its subject the tragic story of fifteen-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported from Lithuania to Siberia in 1941 with her mother and younger brother. Sepetys has toured internationally for three years, presenting the novel and associated history in dozens of countries. The President commended “her continued global work sharing the little-known history of Stalin’s ethnic cleansing in the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.” Between Shades of Gray has been published in 43 countries and 26 languages.
Read More »
