We’re closing out 2022 with something new: A Poured Over Double Shot with host Miwa Messer. Cormac McCarthy doesn’t really do interviews—If you want to know about the work, it’s on the page, he says. Jenny Jackson and Chip Kidd are part of the team that publish McCarthy; Jenny’s been his editor for the last eight years, […]
“I missed it so much. And definitely didn’t get it or appreciate the specialness of it, or this particular beauty of it…until you have to show up at a party full of strangers. And answer that, where are you from question so many times. I’m not sure I would have written this book, if I […]
“But at the end of the day, so many people have lost a loved one. This story is about mothers and daughters. It’s about parents and children. It’s about a different culture and relating to it. It’s about food. It’s about grief. It’s about loss. It’s about family.” Two-time GRAMMY nominee Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast) […]
Oprah’s Book Club has been around for over 25 years! Her thought-provoking book club picks are some of our favorites, too. The books Oprah Winfrey recommends often tell heart wrenching, life altering stories that ultimately uplift and inspire their readers. It’s no surprise that many of these titles end up becoming Pulitzer Prize Winners, National […]
The work of the late poet Adrienne Rich was an important part of Cheryl Strayed’s trek along the Pacific Coast Trail, chronicled in her riveting new memoir Wild. When Discover Great New Writers asked the author to talk about her book and her journey, she told us, “I’ve always loved books. But the books I took with me on my PCT hike were even more important because they were often my only companions. Some I chose because I’d always heard I should read them — books like Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Nabokov’s Lolita fall in to that category — others I chose because I’d already read and loved them, such as Adrienne Rich’s The Dream of Common Language, which is something of a sacred text in Wild.”