John Green’s Next Book Will Be Nonfiction
John Green, the author known for YA hits Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, will be publishing a nonfiction title for the first time. The Anthropocene Reviewed, which is also the title of his monthly podcast, will be an expansion of the essays heard on his podcast mixed with favorites. “…I’ve begun to understand these reviews as an attempt to chart the contradictions of human life as I experience it – how we can be so compassionate and so cruel, so persistent and so quick to despair, and how consciousness is at once depraved in its meaninglessness and profoundly sacred in its meaning.”
Another First By A Major Publisher
These are always bitter sweet, “yay” for the first but also shame on publishing for taking this long. According to Simran Jeet Singh, the author of the new children’s book Fauja Singh Keeps Going, it is the first kid’s book by a major publisher to center a Sikh character. The book tells the true story of a British Sikh centenarian, Fauja Singh, believed to have been the oldest person to run a marathon in 2011.
Trailer For Sherlock’s Teen Sister Adaptation
Sherlock’s teen sister has a series of books written by Nancy Springer, which Netflix has adapted into a film starring Millie Bobby Brown, with Henry Cavill playing her older brother, Sherlock. Available to stream on September 23rd, you can watch the trailer for Enola Holmes now, as Enola discovers her mother (Helena Bonham-Carter) is missing and sets out to solve the mystery.