Each week the New York Times ranks books sold in the United States based on format and genre. Hitting the top of the charts this week are “The Midnight Line,” “Obama: An Intimate Portrait” and “Uncommon Type,” respectively. “Midnight Line” is the newest addition to the list this month. The twenty-second book in the Jack…
Just over two weeks ago, John Green released his seventh novel, six years after the number one best seller “The Fault Our Stars.” Critics are calling Green’s new novel, titled “Turtles All the Way Down,” “A new modern classic,” “A wrenching and reve- latory novel” and “A tender story about learning to cope when the…
Hope College’s Jack Ridl Visting Writers Series presented best-selling writer, Paisley Rekdal. Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, “The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee” and four books of poetry: “A Crash of Rhinos,” “Six Girls Without Pants,” “The Invention of the Kaledidoscope” and “Animal Eyes.” She was part of a Q&A…
Calvin College’s Festival of Faith and Writing Conference on Monday, April 16. The conference, which started in 1990, brought together writers, publishers and editors to the college in Grand Rapids on April 14-16. Bessey’s discussion, entitled “Unqualified: Why Everyone Can Write About Theology,” took place in the school’s Covenant Fine Arts Center auditorium. Bessey, a…