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Book releases 2024: From RuPaul to Salman Rushdie
So many goodies in store from newbies in 2024. Here's just a few of the ones to watch.
The Coast Road by Alan Murrin is set in a small Irish community in 1994, the year before divorce became legal, and is about two women who are trying to break out from societal norms. 9 May, Bloomsbury.
Going much further back in time is The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable, an epic novel set in 18th Century Venice and based on the real life of Anna Maria della Pietà who, taught by Vivaldi, went on to become the leading pop star of her day. She's since been written out of history. Until now. 20 August, Bloomsbury.
The Painter's Daughters by Emily Howes is a novel inspired by the two daughters of Thomas Gainsborough. It was praised by none other than the late Hilary Mantel, who said it is "beautifully written … I raced through it". 29 February, Phoenix.
Closer to home, The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey is set in Yorkshire in 1979. Miv and her best mate Sharon try to solve the case of the missing women. The novel was partly inspired by Godfrey's father having worked alongside serial killer Peter Sutcliffe. 15 February, Hutchinson Heinneman.
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The Best Books of 2024
This expansive collection of the avant-garde San Francisco writer’s more than twenty-four hundred Amazon product reviews, scraped from the company’s servers, lightly edited, and arranged chronologically, includes evaluations of classic twentieth-century cinema, literary biographies, and experimental poetry collections—but also toiletries, Halloween costumes, and a chestnut tree. Killian’s reviews, usually five stars, are often exaggeratedly gushing, even melodramatic, but they are not mere parodies. He brings serious attention to bear on everything he reviews, and many of his recommendations are genuinely illuminating. It’s tempting to interpret Killian’s reviews as an ironic burlesque of the online shopper. But “Selected Amazon Reviews” is not just a conceptual art work, or a literary hoax. The entries are brimming with genuine pleasure, and also a wonderment and ardor for the great variety of stuff on the Web site. Like so many of us on social media, Killian seemed to love his platform of choice—the Amazon review section—despite its complicity in a techno-capitalist system that he abhorred.
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Read more: “A Portrait of the Artist as an Amazon Reviewer,” by Oscar Schwartz
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Harper Lee
American novelist (1926–2016)
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