Round-Up: Robert Pirsig, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Open-Source Textbooks
From the passing of Robert Pirsig to new initiatives to benefit college students, here’s the latest literary news.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Review: THE VERSIONS OF US by Laura Barnett
The Versions of Us Laura Barnett Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2016 416 pp; $26.00 Buy: hardcover | eBook The Versions of Us, Laura Barnett’s tapestry romance, is in many ways Margaret Atwood’s “Happy Endings” fleshed into a full-novel. The novel’s main style device employs just what the title promises: three versions of the same pair,…
For Today I Am a Boy
For Today I Am a Boy Kim Fu Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 2014 256 pages $23.00 Buy: book | ebook Kim Fu opens her touching debut novel with a birth on the concrete floor of a butcher shop. This story is one that’s been passed down through the Huang family, though it may not be…