Media Hits: THE NOTEBOOK, QUESTION AUTHORITY, CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES, and more!
IN THE NEWS!
The Notebook by Roland Allen (Sep 3, 2024) was featured in The New Criterion on November 26. The feature is available to check out here.
Robert Erikson wrote,
“Ranging from thirteenth-century Florence to twenty-first-century Florida, Allen’s account is a delightful mix of material and intellectual history.”
The Notebook also appeared in The 2024 Kleon Studios Gift Guide by Austin Kleon. The guide was posted on November 29, and you can browse it here.
Get The Notebook here!
A Case of Matricide by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Nov 12, 2024) was reviewed in the New York Times! The review was published online on November 25, and can be read here.
Sarah Weinman wrote,
“You can gulp down A Case of Matricide in one sitting, as the prose style seems to demand. But linger over Burnet’s novel, and its real pleasures emerge.”
Get A Case of Matricide here!
Mark Kingwell, author of Question Authority (Nov 5, 2024), gave a number of interviews over the past week. In print, Kingwell was interviewed in The Jacobin and The Varsity, and he also appeared on an episode of TVO’s The Agenda.
Get Question Authority here!
Anne Hawk, author of The Pages of the Sea (Sep 17, 2024), was interviewed on CBC’s The Next Chapter! The interview, in which Hawk discusses code switching and the cost of migration for a young Caribbean girl in her debut novel, aired on November 22, and is available to listen to here.
Get The Pages of the Sea here!
A Way to Be Happy by Caroline Adderson (Sep 10, 2024) was reviewed in The Miramichi Reader. The review was posted online on December 1, and you can read it in full here.
Reviewer Catherine Marcotte writes,
“A Way To Be Happy is deeply contradictory in the best possible way, insisting at every turn that regardless of its title, there is, luckily, no such thing as a singular way to be happy.”
Get A Way to Be Happy here!
SETH’S CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES
Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories 2024 were featured in Boing Boing! The article was posted online on November 25, and you can read it here.
Mark Frauenfelder writes,
“This year marks the 10th anniversary of these beautifully designed pocket-sized books . . . As someone who has collected these books for years, it’s exciting to get three more of these pocket-sized treasures.”
Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories were also recommended by Tom Bowden in the Book Beat! The review was published online on November 23, and you can read it here.
“Illustrator Seth returns for the tenth year with a new batch of ghost stories originally written and published for the Christmas season . . . each story printed as a pocket-sized book taking about a half hour to hour to read, focusing on eerie and macabre (but never gory) tales of misadventure with bad spirits.”
Get all three 2024 Christmas Ghost Stories here!
1934: THE CHATHAM COLOURED ALL-STARS’ BARRIER-BREAKING YEAR
1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars Barrier-Breaking Year by Heidi LM Jacobs was featured in an episode of CBC Ideas about the team.
The episode aired on November 25, and is available to listen to, alongside a full article, here.
Get 1934 here!
