Your Week in Virtual Book Events, May 18 to 24

Your Week in Virtual Book Events, May 18 to 24

Readings, Panels, Conversations, Parties, and More

By Penina Roth | May 18, 2020

Let's drool over this Japanese house with a public library on the ground floor.

Let's drool over this Japanese house with a public library on the ground floor.

By Jessie Gaynor | May 18, 2020

How a Pandemic Happens: We Knew This Was Coming

How a Pandemic Happens: We Knew This Was Coming

Mike Davis on the Inevitability of Catastrophe

By Mike Davis | May 18, 2020

How E.M. Forster's Only Foray Into Sci-Fi Predicted Social Distancing

How E.M. Forster's Only Foray Into Sci-Fi Predicted Social Distancing

Gabrielle Bellot on the Prescient Parallels of "The Machine Stops"

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 18, 2020

On the City of Florence's Struggle to Get Back Dante's Body

On the City of Florence's Struggle to Get Back Dante's Body

The City That Rejected the Poet Came to Regret It

By Guy P. Raffa | May 18, 2020

How Energy, Chaos, and a Flair for Entertainment Created Nightly News

How Energy, Chaos, and a Flair for Entertainment Created Nightly News

Lisa Napoli on Ted Kavanau

By Lisa Napoli | May 18, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Here's Katherine Anne Porter describing how she resisted death during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.

By Dan Sheehan | May 15, 2020

Oh my (demi)god: Percy Jackson is going to be a TV show.

By Katie Yee | May 15, 2020

Time for Nerd Jeopardy! (A Literary Trivia Game Show)

By The Virtual Book Channel | May 15, 2020

Why Do Some Writers Burn Their Work?

Why Do Some Writers Burn Their Work?

Alex George on the Satisfying Spectacle of Torching It All

By Alex George | May 15, 2020

With Apologies to Susan Sontag, We're Going to Need Metaphor to Get Through This Global Illness

With Apologies to Susan Sontag, We're Going to Need Metaphor to Get Through This Global Illness

David Farrier on the Ways We Talk About Coronavirus

By David Farrier | May 15, 2020

Why <em>Sesame Street</em> Was a Revolutionary Force for Children's Television

Why Sesame Street Was a Revolutionary Force for Children's Television

David Kamp on the Radical Creators of an Iconic Show

By David Kamp | May 15, 2020

<em>The Week in Books LIVE</em>:<br> Sesame Street, Slenderman, and DJ Murakami

The Week in Books LIVE:
Sesame Street, Slenderman, and DJ Murakami

With Book Marks Editors Dan Sheehan and Katie Yee

By The Virtual Book Channel | May 15, 2020

When it Comes to Coronavirus, What Does 'After' Mean?

When it Comes to Coronavirus, What Does 'After' Mean?

Eva Holland on Writing About Fear

By Eva Holland | May 15, 2020

Meet the Stone Collector of Iceland's Eastern Coast

Meet the Stone Collector of Iceland's Eastern Coast

A. Kendra Greene Gathers the History of a Life

By A. Kendra Greene | May 15, 2020

Slurs, Barbs, Digs: Robert Lopez on the Power of Single-Syllable Epithets

Slurs, Barbs, Digs: Robert Lopez on the Power of Single-Syllable Epithets

Reflections on Racist Language, From the Schoolyard to the Kitchen

By Robert Lopez | May 15, 2020

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