Archive - Book Post

Notebook: Launch Pad or Slush Pile?

by Ann Kjellberg, editor Is a new literary platform creating opportunities for writers or exploiting them for profit?

Sep 15 •

Diary: Michael Wood on Jean Giono

A sea journey ostensibly about “Zoology, Botany, Paleontology, Oceanography” turns out to be a pursuit of the unknown

Sep 12

Diary: Kathryn Davis on National Velvet

Beauty and power—if you don’t possess these qualities yourself, you look for them elsewhere. In the case of Enid Bagnold, you become a writer.

Sep 8

Elizabeth Bishop: A Conversation with April Bernard

A recording of our conversation on Thursday, August 29, concluding April Bernard's Book Post Summer Reading of Elizabeth Bishop

Sep 5

Review: Yasmine El Rashidi on Sonallah Ibrahim & Ahmed Naji

An Arabic literary convention of the literary diary both rings with the present and speaks from the past

Sep 4

Fall Partner Bookseller: (2) Dragonfly & The Silver Birch in Decorah, Iowa!

Religious publishing is on the rise, and religious bookstores have particularly powerful connections with their readers

Sep 2 •

Fall Partner Bookseller: (1) Dragonfly & The Silver Birch in Decorah, Iowa!

In the heart of rural Iowa, bustling bookstores at a lively crossroads

Sep 1 •

August 2024

Review: Geoffrey O’Brien on Agnès Varda

To a rare degree, Varda’s evolution shows how life and work can be so intermingled as to be inseparable

Aug 28

Elizabeth Bishop 4: Boston

Aug 25 •

Talk with us! Virtual Book Post conversation next Thursday

April Bernard, Elizabeth Bishop, poetry, and reading together

Aug 23 •

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Review: J. S. Marcus on a new history of postwar Germany

Making the case that nothing really ever settled down in this part of Europe after 1945, which was marked by wave after wave of dislocation and…

Aug 21

Elizabeth Bishop 3: Brazil

Aug 18 •

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