A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
“Any story, any work of literature, any storytelling endeavour has to be both lighthouse and storm,” El Akkad says.
As a leader of the Anthropodermic Book Project, Rosenbloom has for years been ensconced in the realm of anthropodermic bibliopegy – in lay terms, the practice of binding books in human skin.
“We’re not an all-trans press,” says Fitzpatrick. “We definitely understand ourselves as a feminist press run by trans women.”
The manuscript, deemed by the French government a national treasure, is one of the most controversial and frequently banned works ever published.
A breezy, plot-driven book and an abstruse, philosophically dense ontological mystery provide different pleasures for readers.
While 2021 will once again run as a digital festival, 2022 includes changes such as a new festival date and a mini-fest devoted to crime writing.
The novel, which won the 2021 Man Booker International Prize, questions where duty and friendship end and insanity begins.
“I realized the adult world was every bit as fucked up as anything else."
“Even under the blockade, it made us feel as a part of the world,” says one writer and translator about the cultural significance of the demolished store.
The novel is among a series of recent thrillers that focus on writers behaving badly.