Jan 18 2019
Writing in Vox, Kaitlyn Tiffany dives deep into Amazon Publishing, focusing on "the terrible celebrity biographies of Amazon, not explained"...
It’s a unique sort of suffering to be enamored of a celebrity — particularly if that celebrity has had no books written by or about them to provide an in-depth look at their glamorous and complicated life.
That is sort of the short explanation for how I came to purchase, two years ago, a Kindle-only book called Celebrity Biographies — The Amazing Life of Jake Gyllenhaal, written by an author named Matt Green, retailing for $2.99 and beginning with the sentence, “Jacob Benjamin or Jake Gyllenhaal is an American actor.”
The book contains many other beautiful sentences, most of which make much less sense than the first...
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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