Review: WHY BUDDHISM IS TRUE: THE SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF MEDITATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT by Robert Wright
He’s not even arguing that Buddhism is true.
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Simon & Schuster
The New Ethics for Writers of Color in A Post-Truth Era
My creative writing students want to talk about the business of literature. They want to talk cover letters, agents, MFA programs, fellowships.
Round-Up: Hillary Clinton, Fox Chapel Publishing, and Warren Buffett
From Hillary Clinton’s deal with Simon & Schuster to Warren Buffett’s life-changing read, here’s the latest literary news.
Round Up: Roxane Gay, PEN Memberships, and NEA
From Roxane Gay pulling her book from Simon & Schuster to a list of NEA funded projects, here’s the latest literary news.
Round-Up: Simon & Schuster Authors Protesting, Book Deserts, and GoT
From a protest of Milo Yiannopolous’ book deal to the sixth Game of Thrones book, here’s the latest in literary news.
Review: INHERITED DISORDERS: STORIES, PARABLES, & PROBLEMS by Adam Ehrlich Sachs
The shorts are wide-ranging. Some are heartbreaking in less than 500 words; others are unexpectedly hilarious whether outright or with a darker flavor to their humor. Disorders is a contemporary stable of parables not only about fathers and sons, but about the everyday struggle to live one’s life in another’s shadow and about the failure to meet another’s expectations.
Round-Down: eBooks on the Go
Two new partnerships with digital media distribution platforms are allowing publishers to make it even easier to get electronic books in the hands of travelers this month. On May 6, Kobo, a Rakuten company, and Global Eagle Entertainment, Inc. launched a reading platform that will allow Southwest Airlines passengers to access, through their personal WiFi-enabled devices, a…