Albert Cossery / Courtesy of New Instructions The top of June marked the anniversary of the dying of Albert Cossery (1913–2008), a French-speaking Egyptian author who will not be significantly well-known, however whose work will nonetheless delight readers along with his sense of the absurd, satirical observations about energy, poverty and corruption, and sly humor. […]

Photograph by Gelatin At the moment’s visitor put up is excerpted from the brand new e book Write with Confidence by Lisa Fellinger. We’ve all been there. You’re at a celebration, an occasion, and even simply standing within the college decide up line, and somebody strikes up an informal dialog. Eventually, they ask: “What do you […]

Picture by Laurin Rinder / Adobe Inventory Abdilatif Abdallah (b. 1946, Mombasa) is a serious Swahili poet who was, till just lately, largely unknown to English readers. A fantastic quantity of his work, The Imaginative Imaginative and prescient in Abdilatif Abdallah’s Voice of Agony (College of Michigan Press, 2024), has been edited and launched by Annmarie Drury. […]

A centennial celebration of poet Nissim Ezekiel compiled by his daughter, poet Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca, Nissim Ezekiel, Poet and Father (Pippa Rann Books, 2024) consists of a set of recollections, augmented by vignettes and historic data. Reminding the reader of Nissim’s enchantment and complexity as a poet, editor Vinita Agrawal displays: “A memoir requires perspective and […]

Movie and theatre star Josh Gad groups up with the Berkowitz brothers and artist Ariel Olivetti for The Author – an thrilling fantasy combined with Jewish folklore. The collection follows Stan Siegel, a famend comedian e-book author, whose life spirals right into a terrifying journey past the confines of actuality. Alongside his mom Liz and […]

It’s right here! The Enterprise of Being a Author, Second Version, is now accessible from all retailers, in paperback and book editions (Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble). Why a revision was wanted The primary version launched in 2018, and it was written largely in 2016. Whereas a superb chunk of the primary version […]