The retailer once said it would sell “the good, the bad and the ugly.” Now it has banished objectionable volumes — and agreed to erasing the swastikas from a photo book about a Nazi takeover, according to David Streitfeld from the NY Times… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. … Read more
Many successful authors had jobs before writing full time, and some continue to work non-literary jobs even after being published, according to Mariela Santos Muñiz from BookRiot… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! Some bestselling authors were teachers or professors of different subjects. Not … Read more
The magic of the Wizarding World is coming to New York with the opening of the world’s first official Harry Potter flagship store, according to PR Newswire… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! Warner Bros. today announced that it will open the first official … Read more
Whether you are someone who finds comfort in information, your curiosity has been piqued by all of the buzz, or you just like being the expert in the room, here are five nonfiction books about pandemics, viruses, and deadly diseases… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free … Read more
The extraordinary life of William Dorsey Swann, the first drag queen who was born into slavery, is being told for the very first time in a new book titled, The House of Swann, according to Valerie Edwards with The Daily Mail… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is … Read more
According to Alison Flood from The Guardian, Stephen King is now clarifying controversial comments about diversity, acknowledging that while in a perfect world ‘judgments of creative excellence should be blind’, we’re not there yet… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! Stephen King has rowed … Read more
Brain Pickings and Maria Popova from brainpickings.org take a glimpse inside the beautiful, heartbreaking, unclassifiable relationship that fomented some of the greatest, most original and paradigm-shifting poetry… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! Four months before her twentieth birthday, Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830–May … Read more
“Patricia Highsmith slept with a man experimentally, much as one tries tripe to see if one develops a taste for it” says Peter Wells from The Spinoff… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! Graham Greene called her ‘the poet of ambiguity’. He was tipping … Read more