Jennifer Garner reads Go the F*** to Sleep
J.J. Abrams’ trailer for S. by Abrams and Doug Dorst.
Matt Haig lists 5 Reasons to Stay Alive
“But I do enjoy words—some words—for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent”
‘Books like this come along once in a generation … It all hangs together perfectly to form the kind of next-level literature that inspires, even incites another generation of natural-born wordsmiths to write big and bold and put in the work it takes to become a beast.’
Steve Earle
The New York Times
A beautiful trailer for The Bones of Grace by Tahmima Anam.
ARE YOU ALRIGHT?
Watch the trailer for What Happened Miss Simone? on Netflix
Canongate’s own Jamie Byng interview’s Gil Scott-Heron in 2010. This year would have marked Gil’s 68th birthday. His posthumously published, indelible memoir The Last Holiday is now a Canon.
The Financial Times have been enjoying the audiobook of Night Boat to Tangier read by Kevin Barry himself:
“Barry is a marvel: menacing, insistent, switching from brooding descriptions of the men’s nocturnal surroundings to their terse dialogue. The conviction with which he explores their search for Charlie’s missing daughter never fails.”
Financial Times