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"It was a lot of work writing this book. I'm not gonna say it was easy. I was a mess": Bikini Kill/Le Tigre's Kathleen Hanna announces 'raw and insightful' memoir Rebel Girl

Bikini Kill / Le Tigre icon Kathleen Hanna to publish Rebel Girl memoir next year

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This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, July 8, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2023 Circana.

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Moon Knight takes on the Sons of the Jackal in a new preview of City of the Dead #1

Get a first look at Marc Spector's first ever event series

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Writer becomes overnight bestseller after his video of empty book signing goes viral on the internet

The internet is a strange yet wonderful place. In a recent incident, a video of a man who published his debut book recently and was trying hard to sell it at a store went viral on the internet. The next day, the man became a bestselling author!

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Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville review – an empathetic story of a formidable grandmother

Author turns her novelist’s eye to her own grandmother, a smart and ambitious woman who became distant and demanding after a lifetime of disappointment

The Guardian - AU

British Library acquires ultra-rare cricket book thanks to anonymous donor

William Epps’s 1799 book of scorecards from ‘the grand matches’, formerly owned by commentator John Arlott, has been saved for the nation

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Bestselling books at Matariki

Steve Braunias describes the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list at Matariki Weekend

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Bernardine Evaristo: young people are ‘addicted’ to social media and not reading

‘I worry not for my generation... I worry for young people’ she said

Evening Standard

Prince Harry recalls noticing one major difference between Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle

Marie Claire

Cassidy Hutchinson, key witness at Jan. 6 hearings, plans memoir this fall

Hutchinson's "testimony transfixed and stunned the nation," the publisher says.

Axios

‘I was interested in the why and how of Seagull Books’: Pushan Kripalani

In a film that’s “meant to feel like a languorous conversation with a friend”, director Pushan Kripalani goes behind four decades of the Kolkata publishing house

The Hindu

Review: Few of this summer's movies burn as fiercely as Christian Petzold's 'Afire'

Leon (Thomas Schubert), the exasperated — and exasperating — young writer at the heart of the superb German drama "Afire," has a mesmerizingly punchable scowl. It's a scowl that rarely leaves your memory, since it so rarely leaves his features: a full-lipped mouth that hangs contemptuously half-open; eyes that glare…

Los Angeles Times

Henley Literary Festival 2023 unveils lineup including Theresa May, Sebastian Faulks and David Baddiel

Oxfordshire arts festival is partnering with The Independent for a nine-day event that features appearances from actors, writers, illustrators, musicians, poets, comedians and more

The Independent UK

Sajita Nair’s ‘The Grande Matriarch of Malabar’ maps the social changes at the turn of the 20th century in Kerala through the life of her protagonist

The Grande Matriarch of Malabar, authored by Sajita Nair, narrates the story of Dakshayani, a strong-willed woman and her attachment to her ancestral home

The Hindu

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Salman Rushdie speaks of 'crazy dreams' about knife attack in New York

Salman Rushdie has spoken for the first time about having "crazy dreams" following the near-fatal knife attack on him in New York in August last year, which has left the Mumbai-born author blind in one eye, and working with a therapist to help him process the mental impact of the…

The Guardian - UK

My Men by Victoria Kielland review – inside the mind of a female serial killer

This raw, powerful novel is based on the Norwegian woman whose case has been notorious for more than a century

The Hindu

Kolkata’s oldest bookshop to turn part of premises into free library

Kolkata's oldest bookshop, Dasgupta and Co., set up in 1886, is converting part of its premises into a free library for students who cannot afford books. The library will offer 10,000 titles, archival records, and translations from English to Bangla and vice-versa. Rabindranath Tagore, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, and Ashapurna Devi…

Marie Claire

Britney Spears on Forthcoming Memoir: “I Worked My A— Off for This Book”

“I had a lot of therapy to get this book done, so you guys better like it. And if you don’t like it, that’s fine, too.”

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The Guardian - UK

Royal Society of Literature aims to broaden representation as it announces 62 new fellows

RSL president Bernadine Evaristo highlights need to change to become an organisation for all writers rather than just the white and middle class

Manchester Evening News

Salman Rushdie reveals he may never speak at public events again after frenzied knife attack

Award-winning writer has given first interview since devastating 2022 attack which left him blind in one eye

Daily Mirror

Britney Spears reveals release date of tell-all memoir telling story 'on her terms'

The singer's book The Woman in Me will cover her tumultuous life, including the years of her conservatorship, and will be release on October 24, she announced in a new video

Radio France Internationale

Milan Kundera, a Czech exile who found home in France, dies at 94

Czech-born writer Milan Kundera, who has died in Paris at the age of 94, lived almost half his life in France. A self-described Francophile, he wrote his later works in French and was convinced that being in exile enriched his writing.

The Independent UK

Huw Edwards: BBC presenter who broke Queen’s death to nation now at centre of sex scandal

Revelations over top-earning presenter will rock not just his industry but the nation’s confidence, writes Nick Hilton

Evening Standard

Kenny Imafidon talks Peckham, prison, Parliament and the pen

At 17, Kenny Imafidon was dealing drugs and hanging out with MPs. Then fate took a turn... As he releases his memoir, Sophie Wilkinson hears how the boy done good

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Book of the Week: Pip, genius

A strange, wondrous and disquieting journey on a spaceship crewed by giants. What?

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