New Nonfiction Book By Margaret Atwood Coming in 2022
Bestselling and award-winning Canadian author Margaret Atwood is coming out with a new nonfiction book next year. Doubleday will publish Atwood’s Burning Questions: Essays 2004-2021, a collection of over 50 essays written by the author. Atwood’s essays will cover a wide range of topics, such as the economic crisis, climate change, when to dispense advice to the young, and much more. According to the publisher, questions addressed in the book include “How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?” and “What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?” Burning Questions is set to be published on March 1, 2022.
Salt & Straw Introduces 2021 Rad Readers Ice Cream Series
Ice cream company Salt & Straw has announced a new 2021 Rad Readers Series. The new menu features ice cream flavors inspired by their five favorite children’s authors. Flavors include Goosebumps: Monster Blood (mango ice cream, fruit punch “monster goo,” and strawberry bark “fangs”); Amulet: Fruit of the Gadoba Tree (Salt & Straw’s take on Gadoba fruit and bittersweet cacao nibs); Geronimo Stilton & The Frosted Frozen Feast (parmesan cream, mascarpone cheesecake, buttery cracker crust, and salted caramel); Smile: Words & Pictures (vanilla, stracciatella, and yellow and pink almond-infused sponge cake); and Twins: A Matching Pear (pear ice cream with a cinnamon swirl).
Barack Obama to Keynote 2021 ALA Virtual Conference
Earlier this week, the American Library Association announced that former president Barack Obama will be the featured speaker at the 2021 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition’s closing session. On Tuesday, June 29, Barack Obama will be in conversation with Lonnie G. Bunch III, the first African American secretary of the Smithsonian. You can register for the 2021 ALA Annual Conference and find out about other speakers at their official website.
Book Vending Machines are the Best Vending Machines
Why just have a normal vending machine when you can have a book vending machine? Find out more about this literacy tool and bookish resource.