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Books that live, for 100 yrs and counting. Precocious offspring of @wwnorton.bsky.social. IG: @liverightbooks | FB/YT: @liverightpublishing | Twitter: @liverightpub | wwnorton.com/liveright
Congratulations to @alissawilkinson.bsky.social (WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES: JOAN DIDION AND THE AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE) on being named to the longlist of the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Nonfiction! www.ala.org/carnegie-med...
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Paul McCartney looks back at leaving the Beatles: “For the first time in years, I felt free, suddenly leading and directing my own life.”
23.10.2025 13:09 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0▶️ NOW PLAYING
@ambersparks.bsky.social returns to the show celebrating the publication of her debut novel HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE (@liveright.bsky.social), a story of a mother and a daughter, of magic and mystery, ghosts and grief.
🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
Happy publication day to Amber Sparks, whose thrilling and hilarious debut novel HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE is in stores *today* wherever booooooooks (get it... ghosts) are sold! 👻
Catch Amber on tour nationwide at a superb bookseller near you! wwnorton.com/books/978132...
A plush Baby Zilla holds Happy People Don't Live Here by Amber Sparks
Know what I'll be reading tonight! @ambersparks.bsky.social
22.09.2025 18:27 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Thursday night at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social I'll be in conversation with @ambersparks.bsky.social. Hope to see you there! www.harvard.com/event/amber-...
14.10.2025 14:34 — 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Thank you, @debutiful.bsky.social! debutiful.net/2025/10/01/1...
02.10.2025 21:31 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
ONE WEEK! DC! Come to the launch party in Adams Morgan! @rvoronacote.bsky.social and me at Lost City Books and a few fun surprises, and a very spooky party www.eventbrite.com/e/happy-peop...
08.10.2025 01:08 — 👍 33 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Thanks to @tobiascarroll.bsky.social and @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social! Please check out my interview with @ambersparks.bsky.social which ran initially at The Brooklyn Rail. Boom.
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/10/09/a...
Cover image of Happy People Don’t Live Here, by Amber Sparks.
Weekend read with @ambersparks.bsky.social , Happy People Don’t Live Here,
Her debut novel.
Open up and get lost.
And if you are in the DC area, please come to the launch tonight at Lost City Books! 7pm! It’s literally perfect weather today for the book, too! I’ll be in convo with the fabulous @rvoronacote.bsky.social so you should come plz do www.eventbrite.com/e/happy-peop...
14.10.2025 14:19 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...
14.10.2025 14:11 — 👍 238 🔁 56 💬 23 📌 15
Featured Book. From Gordon Lightfoot's song to watching sister lake freighters pass through the Soo Locks, this tragedy has always fascinated me. Published by @liveright.bsky.social
07.10.2025 18:04 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Happy publication day to Georgi Gospodinov,
whose new novel DEATH AND THE GARDENER is in stores now! wwnorton.com/books/978132...
“Intimate.... A consolation rather than a provocation... darkly funny.... It might have you mulling your own pithy epitaph.”
—Alexandra Jacobs, @nytimes.com
THE GALES OF NOVEMBER is a definitive account of the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck that movingly draws on contemporary observations of the colossal 1975 tragedy. @liveright.bsky.social
05.10.2025 22:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“My father was a gardener. Now he’s a garden.” Read from Georgi Gospodinov’s novel Death and the Gardener, translated by Angela Rodel.
02.10.2025 20:30 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
I've been updating our folder with the Winter 2026 #LibraryReads suggestions. Here's February! Bsrat Mezghebe will be at LJDOD later this month. #ewgc www.edelweiss.plus/#catalogID=5...
02.10.2025 20:18 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Coming 11/25: a Ltd. Signed Edition of WINGS: THE STORY OF A BAND ON THE RUN, w/ screen printing, booklet of Wings-era album/single artwork, exclusive color vinyl of the forthcoming WINGS LP, enamel pin + embroidered patch — numbered and signed by Paul McCartney! Preorder: medium.com/@LiverightPu...
02.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Galleys! Very excited to receive these from @liveright.bsky.social, even if the official pub date is a long way off (April 28, 2026). Pre-order it now! a.co/d/4ZdEjXu
30.09.2025 20:38 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Overjoyed to announce the sale of my first book, Into the Dark Sky, to @liveright.bsky.social The book is a scientific adventure to find the last dark places on Earth and chronicle the people striving to protect them. It's also a love story about the night & our home planet✨🔭🌎 #darkskies #astronomy
02.10.2025 05:52 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Just because we’ve written [the laws] down doesn’t mean that we can’t aspire to make things better.” Harvard law professor and staff writer at The New Yorker, Jill Lepore, joins Jon Stewart to discuss her new bestselling book, “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution.
30.09.2025 03:51 — 👍 33 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 1
im a big fan of Jill Lepore. I loved her book, These Truths. i will definitely read her new book youtu.be/8LkX8lj8SWQ
30.09.2025 04:51 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Jon Stewart interviews Jill Lepore, history and law professor at Harvard, about her new book: We the People.
Jon Stewart thinks it's worth a read, so I'm going to get it.
youtube.com/watch?v=8LkX...
📅 Mon. 10/6 at 7PM: We are excited to welcome Jill Lepore―bestselling author of "These Truths", staff writer at "The New Yorker"―to First Parish Church for a discussion of her highly anticipated book "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution". Get tickets here: buff.ly/dbOnhfq
30.09.2025 20:00 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0So I went to the bookstore to get the new Mary Roach book.
But there was a new Sam Kean book right next to it.
And a new Jill Lepore book about the US Constitution.
And a biography of Fulvia.
And a book about the CIA’s smuggling banned books into the USSR.
Bookstores are dangerous.
"Normally... I can skim. Your writing is so vivid and so interesting that I actually had to pay attention." @thedailyshow.com's Jon Stewart talks w/ Jill Lepore about her @nytimes.com Bestseller WE THE PEOPLE: A HISTORY OF THE U.S CONSTITUTION, in stores now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LkX...
30.09.2025 16:25 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
What was Augustine’s Africa?
In her new book, Augustine the African, Catherine Conybeare reveals Augustine’s internal map, where Roman power defined the center.
Read Allen Callahan’s review for Book Post: books.substack.com/p/review-all...
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Jill Lepore's stunning new history of the U.S. Constitution —perfect for a troubling new era, "land[ing] at the right moment, like a life buoy, as our ship of state takes on water" (Hamilton Cain, Los Angeles Times)— is now a @nytimes.com Bestseller! Discover WE THE PEOPLE wherever books are sold!
26.09.2025 19:40 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Attn: Saint Augustine-and-history-heads worldwide! Join us Tuesday, September 30, 12:00 - 1:00 pm CT for a free event at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs (or via Zoom webinar) w/ Catherine Conybeare, author of new profound history AUGUSTINE THE AFRICAN: bit.ly/3VBjNrR
24.09.2025 20:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A radically new way of thinking about the world and our capacity to understand it, wherever books are sold! Learn more: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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