KQED Arts & Culture Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@allierowbottom's writing is not some cliché-ridden, girl-power critique of the global beauty industry. The industry is such an obvious villain that a moral argument against it would be easy. Her debut novel Aesthetica's appeal is that it is difficult. https://t.co/sXKTocg1x7

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“There is a blunt honesty in Page’s writing that makes this memoir an important testimony, especially for queer and gender non-conforming kids, that things can and do get better.“—@Raemondjjjj reviews @TheElliotPage's new book, ‘Pageboy: A Memoir.’ https://t.co/gzKK0cU5hT

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Sherlock Holmes is finally free to the American public in 2023. The dispute over Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales of a whipsmart detective will finally come to an end as the 1927 copyrights expire on Jan. 1. https://t.co/O4Q3qvYlgG

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(Via @AP) Alongside the 'The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes,' books such as Virginia Woolf’s 'To The Lighthouse,' Ernest Hemingway’s 'Men Without Women,' and more are now public domain. https://t.co/O4Q3qvYlgG

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(Via @NPR) The new Netflix film White Noise, from director Noah Baumbach, is adapted from Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, a cool, dazzling book shot through with so many shifting ironies that virtually every reviewer has described it as unfilmable. https://t.co/wfcDD8R4ME

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Experience what it’s like to bring the spirit of the Bay across the world to Kuwait in the second installment of #Rightnowish’s “Pen’s Pals.” 🌍 @ogpenn talks with Aïdah Rasheed about her life in Kuwait, depictions of Black Muslims in the media, and more. https://t.co/XOD9Zs1hjF

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@jodipicoult says that the protagonist in her novel, "really learns to re-evaluate the goals she had and the life she wanted and begins to ask herself, 'Why did I want those things in the first place?'—which I think is an experience that many of us had." https://bit.ly/2ZFHmGH

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Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel 'Women Talking' positions her female characters at the center of a solemn, determined revolution. https://t.co/78cqERj3B4

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@naomi_elias reviews @BigMeanInternet new book "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and The World." Harris positions the foundation of Silicon Valley as a small domino that unleashes the true final domino, the destruction of the world. https://t.co/TPQ6RTb9DW

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@krispysong 6⃣@pronounced_ing Talks New Book with R.O. Kwon for Berkeley Arts & Letters First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley Oct. 19, 7pm "Masterful at crafting mysteries rich with psychological and social tension, writer Celeste Ng is back with new novel Our Missing Hearts this October." https://t.co/9T5QiNe1Bl