#riverhead books

[garadinervi]

Najla Said (نجلاء سعيد), Looking for Palestine. Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family, Riverhead Books, New York, NY, 2013

[wellesleybooks]

The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced yesterday, amazingly there were two novels chosen for the award for fiction.

Pulitzer Awards for Books, Drama and Music

Fiction

"Demon Copperhead," by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)

"Trust," by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books)

Finalist:

"The Immortal King Rao," by Vauhini Vara (W. W. Norton & Company)

Drama

"English," by Sanaz Toossi

Finalists:

"On Sugarland," by Aleshea Harris

"The Far Country," by Lloyd Suh

History

"Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power," by Jefferson Cowie (Basic Books)

Finalists:

"Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America," by Michael John Witgen (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press)

"Watergate: A New History," by Garrett M. Graff (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)

Biography

"G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century," by Beverly Gage (Viking)

Finalists:

"His Name is George Floyd," by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)

"Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century," by Jennifer Homans (Random House)

Memoir or Autobiography

"Stay True," by Hua Hsu (Doubleday)

Finalists:

"Easy Beauty: A Memoir," by Chloé Cooper Jones (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)

"The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir," by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Doubleday)

Poetry

"Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020," by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Finalists:

"Blood Snow," by dg nanouk okpik (Wave Books)

"Still Life," by the late Jay Hopler (McSweeney’s)

General Nonfiction

"His Name is George Floyd," by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)

Finalists:

"Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern," by Jing Tsu (Riverhead Books)

"Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction," by David George Haskell (Viking)

"Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation," by Linda Villarosa (Doubleday)

Music

"Omar," by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels

Finalists:

"Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)," by Tyshawn Sorey

"Perspective," by Jerrilynn Patton

[raffaellopalandri]

Book of the Day - The Invisible Kingdom

Today’s Book of the Day is The Invisible Kingdom, written by Meghan O’Rourke in 2022 and published by Riverhead Books. Meghan O’Rourke is an American journalist, author, speaker, and poet. She works talking about health, well-being, illness, and social psychology, aiming at improving the lives of those who suffer, both physically and emotionally. The Invisible Kingdom, by Meghan O’Rourke I…

[quirkycatsfatstacks]

Review: Ascension by Nicholas Binge

Author: Nicholas BingePublisher: Riverhead BooksReleased: April 25, 2023Received: Own (Aardvark) Sign up for Aardvark | More Aardvark Reviews Book Summary: People took notice when an enormous mountain appeared in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Granted – not everyone took notice. The governments of the world worked pretty hard to keep the news quiet. But the higher-ups of the world noticed,…

[blackscarabfilmz]

I would just like to say to whoever at Penguin/Riverhead made the decision to reprint this book with the same ISBN but at a slightly smaller size, that I loathe you with every fiber of my being. WHY?!?!?!?!

[theblackestofsuns]

Pastoralia (2000)

George Saunders

Riverhead Books

[jewishbookworld]

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokar­czuk

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokar­czuk

Trans­la­tor: Jen­nifer Croft The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland.…

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[dk-thrive]

I can see now that I was hungry for love... For something to love: a bite, a dream, a person, a meal, a field, a piece of a world worth believing in.

— C. Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey (Riverhead Books, September 26, 2023)

[whisperthatruns]

"It was an uncertain spring." I had read the book a long time ago, and, except for this sentence, I remembered almost nothing about it. I could not have told you about the people who appeared in the book or what happened to them. I could not have told you (until later, after I'd looked it up) that the book began in the year 1880. Not that it mattered. Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeling that the story evokes, the questions that rise to your mind, rather than the fictional events described. [...] I like the novelist who confessed that the only thing to have stayed with him after reading Anna Karenina was the detail of a picnic basket holding a jar of honey.

Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables (Riverhead Books, 2023)

[larkandkatydid]

Fitzcarraldo Editions has snapped up four novels by Olga Tokarczuk, the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, including The Empusium- the author’s first novel since she won the prize.

Publisher Jacques Testard bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to The Empusium, alongside backlist titles House of Day, House of Night (Granta Books/ Northwestern University Press), Primeval and Other Times (Twisted Spoon Press) and Anna In in the Catacombs, from Tokarczuk’s agent Laurence Laluyaux at RCW.

Antonia Lloyd-Jones will revise her existing translations of House of Day, House of Night and Primeval and Other Times, ahead of publication "no sooner" than 2025, and will translate Anna In in the Catacombs into English for the first time.

The Empusium will be published on 26th September 2024 in Lloyd-Jones’ translation, with Becky Saletan at Riverhead publishing in North America, and Penny Hueston at Text Publishing in Australia. "In The Empusium, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, blending horror story, comedy, folklore and feminist parable with brilliant storytelling," the synopsis says.

The synopsis adds: "In September 1913, Mieczysław Wojnicz, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status, and to discuss the great issues of the day: Will there be war? Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women inherently inferior?

"Meanwhile, disturbing things are beginning to happen in the guesthouse and its surroundings... Little does Mieczysław realise, as he attempts to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target."

The book will be Tokarczuk’s fourth novel with Fitzcarraldo Editions, following Flights, translated by Jennifer Croft, which won the 2017 International Booker Prize, as well as Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, and The Books of Jacob, translated by Jennifer Croft

[musingsofmonica]

August 2023 Diverse Reads

August 2023 Diverse Reads

•”Happiness Falls” by Angie Kim, August 29, Hogarth Press, Literary Mystery 

•”Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare” by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, August 29, Bloomsbury Publishing, Short Story Collection — Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology (Hawaiian Identify) 

•”The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride, Riverhead Books, Historical

•”Family Lore” by Elizabeth Acevedo, August 1, Ecco Press, Literary/Magical Realism

“A Council of Dolls” by Mona Susan Power, August 7, Mariner Books, Literary — Coming of Age/Native American & Aboriginal/Magical Realism

•”Tomb Sweeping: Stories” by Alexandra Chang, August 8, Ecco Press, Short Story Collection — Asian American  

•”The End of August” by Yu Miri, Translated by Morgan Giles, August 1, Riverhead Books, Historical/Saga 

•”Holler, Child: Stories” by Latoya Watkins, August 29, Tiny Reparations Books, Short Story Collection — African American  

•”Vampires of El Norte” by Isabel Cañas, August 15, Berkley Books, Gothic Thriller/Horror/Suspense 

•”Las Madres” by Esmeralda Santiago, August 1, 

Knopf Publishing Group, Literary

•”Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women” by Sandra Guzman, August 15, Amistad Press, Anthology — American: Hispanic & Latino

•”Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls” by Kai Cheng Thom, August 01, Dual Press,  Nonfiction/Poetry/Motivation

•”The Art of Scandal” by Regina Black, August 1, Grand Central Publishing, Romance

•”Her Radiant Curse” by Elizabeth Lim, August 29, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, Fantasy/Fairy Tales/Folklore 

•”The Apology” by Jimin Han, August 1, Little Brown and Company, Family Saga/Magical Realism

•”The Water Outlaws” by S. L. Huang, August 22, Tordotcom, Fantasy

•”The Queen of the Valley” by Lorena Hughes, August 22, Kensington Publishing, Historical

•”I Will Greet the Sun Again” by Khashayar J. Khabushani, August 1, Hogarth Press, Contemporary — Coming of Age/LGBTQ+/Muslim

•”The Peach Seed” by Anita Gail Jones, August 1, Henry Holt & Company, Literary 

•”Lush Lives” by J. Vanessa Lyon, August 1, Roxane Gay Books, Literary

Happy Reading!

Mo✌️

[theoutcastrogue]

The Scientific Method, by Ryan North

“It’s important to remember even science has its limitations and is not an oracle of truth. In fact, science is merely:

provisional,

contingent, and

our best effort so far.

Here is the bad news: the scientific method can produce knowledge that is wrong. Here is the good news: the scientific method is still our best technology for uncovering, verifying, and refining correct knowledge, because what the scientific method allows us to do is make wrong knowledge gradually more correct. [...]

“The scientific method, here rendered as a cool atomic-looking thing.”

Note that the scientific method requires you to keep an open mind and be willing—at any time—to discard a theory that no longer fits the facts. This is not an easy thing to do, and many scientists have failed at it. Einstein himself hated how his own theory of relativity argued against his preferred idea of a fixed and stable universe, and for years tried in vain to find some solution that reconciled them both. But if you succeed at following the scientific method, you will be rewarded, because you will have produced knowledge that is reproducible: that anyone can check by doing the same experiment themselves.

Scientists are often seen as turbonerds, but the philosophical foundations of science are actually those of pure punk-rock anarchy: never respect authority, never take anyone’s word on anything, and test all the things you think you know to confirm or deny them for yourself.

“A typical scientist.”

— Ryan North, How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler (Riverhead Books, 2018), emphasis mine

[raffaellopalandri]

Book Of The Day - Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Book Of The Day – Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Today’s Book of the Day is Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, written by Daniel H. Pink and published in 2009 by Riverhead. Daniel H. Pink is an American author, and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seven books. His books have sold millions of copies around the world and have won multiple awards. Drive by Daniel H. Pink I have chosen this book as the candidate for…

[quirkycatsfatstacks]

Review: My Murder by Katie Williams

Author: Katie WilliamsPublisher: Riverhead BooksReleased: June 6, 2023Received: Own (BOTM) Sign up for BOTM | More BOTM Reviews Book Summary: Lou has been murdered. She was the last victim of a local serial killer. Thankfully, after her death, they were finally able to catch him. Since the series of murders caught so much attention, a government project decided to bring Lou and all the other…

[riverheadrangers]

hello!! im planning on visiting with my family, anything you recommend we do while we are there??

I’m so glad you asked! We have loads of activities suitable for families! Here are my top 5:

1. Scavenger Hunt

On the vast majority of our family trails, we have free scavenger hunt kits. These come with a checklist, and a pencil. As you walk the trail there will be numerous wooden animal sculptures, (I won’t spoil it!) but if you write down the first letter of each one, it spells out a word! Bring this piece of paper back to the ranger who gave it to you (typically me) and you’ll be given a special prize :)! (The prizes are suitable for any little ones! A forest colouring book and crayons, some plastic binoculars, a plastic gold medal, cardboard crown OR fox ear headband! All in a lightweight box) This is available on Friday to Sunday from 2pm to 6pm.

2. Go horseback riding (including Shetland ponies for kids)

Riverhead has a cheap horse riding activity available with 3 different skill sets including a beginner set (most suitable for people with little to no riding experience and children.) This experience takes you down a beautiful, flat ground but natural trail, with incredible sight seeing opportunities along the way. This is available on weekends from 3pm to 5pm.

3. Camping

Our camping areas are booking only, but the site comes with three outdoor showers and three bathrooms, there should be a stall ran by one of my coworkers that sells cutlery and dishes, disposable safe bbq’s, hot chocolate, marshmallows and blunt wooden skewers. This shop is open every day of the week including weekends from 1-3:30pm.

4. Stargazing

During certain times of year, it gets dark quite quickly. Every Thursday we open up our Stargazing gazebo. This is a wooden, heated gazebo with a glass ceiling and can house up to 36 people, rangers included. This gazebo is in a clearing near the entrance and is the best place to see constellations :)! As you watch, the rangers will bring round snacks and tell the family friendly versions of the stories behind the constellations. This runs from 6-7pm and is completely free, but a first come first serve basis, including seat booking.

5. Last but not least we have our hiker challenges!

These run everyday, including weekends. Scan the QR code at the beginning of the trail and it’ll start counting the miles :) if you complete the full hike you’ll be given a screen to fill in with your postal information and we will send out a real, metal medal with loads of intricate designs on them based on which hike you completed, this is completely free!