Book Post Summer Extravaganza!
Book Post Summer Extravaganza!
Ten of our most loved paywalled pieces set free! A special deep summer subscription rate!
Hello readers!
The insects are buzzing in the glade, the afternoons are slowing, it’s time to throw open the doors for a Book Post Summer Special, to celebrate our readers and writers and invite new folks in. We’ve opened up some of our most beloved reviews of 2023–2024, to give those not-yet-paying subscribers a taste of what you’re missing! You can get all this and more by subscribing during August for 30 percent off.
Your paying subscription to Book Post brings a direct-to-you book post each Wednesday from a writer hand-picked by me to inform and delight, such as Zoe Heller, Jamaica Kincaid, Colin Thubron, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Padgett Powell, Marina Warner, Kim Ghattas, Sarah Chayes, Àlvaro Enrigue, and more! Plus
❧ We are sending to twenty-five of our most attentive free readers a present of complimentary subscriptions through the end of the year! Watch for an email from me.
❧ The first ten of you to give a one-year gift subscription during August will receive a free Book Post mug from our incipient new store!
❧ Are you a subscriber with a child, friend, or relative starting college in the fall? Let me know and I’ll give them a free subscription with a personal note of congratulation: akjellberg@bookpostusa.com
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Here are ten of our most appreciated posts this year, liberated from their paywall for your delectation during the month of August.
Village Voice alumnus James Ledbetter revisits the tumult of the Voice in its glory days
Joy Williams considers the knotty joys of the “hammerhead novel,” particularly as practiced by Alexis Wright
John Banville continues to love Emerson
Michael Robbins wonders what’s to Nancy, really
Tony Domestico suspects that Rachel Cusk may have taken it too far
Allen Callahan looks at two books about losing your religion
Lawrence Jackson finds the fables in James McBride
Julia Preston follows Jonathan Blitzer on immigration’s trail
McGarry wonders what Henry James learned and what he forgot
Christian Caryl marvels at Herzog’s gnarly man in Hollywood
We also had online reading groups you can revisit with Mona Simpson, Chris Benfey, and—coming soon!—April Bernard, reading the poems of Elizabeth Bishop with Book post readers starting this Sunday! Sign up to receive weekly installments of Summer Reading and join us for a virtual conversation with April and me on August 29 hosted by our beloved bookselling partner, Northshire Bookstore.
Coming up, paying subscribers will receive new posts from Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, who has spent years thinking about comedy, on the women of Hacks; Yasmine El Rashidi on the fondness in Arabic writing for the memoir trouvé; Kathryn Davis on a lingering childhood fascination.
Your paying subscription also helps support our free offerings like Joy Williams on Hemingway’s houses, Sumana Roy on exhaustion, and John Oakes in the world’s quietest room, and my efforts at bringing you news from the front lines of publishing, media, bookselling, and the world of writing.
It also allows me to pay writers fairly and support the battered art of the book review and a healthy reading ecosystem—at a time when durable ideas and reflective commentary labor for purchase in a tumultuous world.
As of August 31 we will have been in business, thanks to our deeply cherished paying subscribers, for a whopping six years. To continue at all, we are, humbly, entirely dependent on you. Please do subscribe, if you do not already, and share to help us grow.
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