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Avid Reader Press, $27 Everyone poops. But not everyone has a safe, sanitary place to do it. What’s more, existing wastewater treatments consume tons of water and energy while flushing away materials that could make fertilizers, fuels and other products. “We can do better,” science journalist Chelsea Wald writes in Pipe Dreams, which recounts how scientists, entrepreneurs and activists are coming up with creative ways to make bathrooms more available and sustainable. About 2 billion peop...

. “Hi guys, welcome back to Book Club,” the model Kaia Gerber said with a California lilt. Seated in her bedroom in Malibu late in February, Ms. Gerber watched as thousands of viewers trickled into her discussion with the playwright Jeremy O. Harris, recovering from an all-nighter. “It’s great to wake up and get energized hearing someone speak so kindly about you and their experience with your work,” he said. Over the next hour, Ms. Gerber and Mr. Harris discussed the racial and sexua...

Graphic: Natalie Peeples In the compulsively readable Infinite Country, author Patricia Engel travels between all manner of borders, figurative and otherwise. The 2011 PEN/Hemingway finalist moves from the intimate—taking inspiration from the lives of family members—to the universal, in the shared history of migration. Many storytellers get tripped up on such a journey, as they end up crafting either what’s deemed too specific a story (and “not relatable enough”) or, in an attempt to...

, by Anna Malaika Tubbs (Flatiron). This dynamic blend of biography and manifesto centers on Louise Little, Alberta King, and Berdis Baldwin—the mothers of, respectively, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Baldwin—women whose legacies, as Tubbs notes, have been overlooked. Using them as a window into the varieties of Black American experience, Tubbs finds that, though they came from vastly different backgrounds, there were important commonalities: each was passionate about ...

Image: Avid Reader As moving as it is riveting, Patricia Engel’s Infinite Country is a one-of-a-kind telling of the timeless story of migration. The era-leaping novel combines international history—the Colombian Conflict, the introduction of the DREAM Act—with the personal stories of a family whose bond cannot be broken by geography. A late-night dash for freedom in the opening chapter is just the start of a border-crossing relay race that spans the Western Hemisphere. Engel’s pacing i...

Hunt, Gather, Parent Offers Lessons Collected Around The World There are many parenting books out there. But NPRs Michaeleen Doucleff says all the parenting books that she read after becoming a mom left a lot out. "Im trained as a scientist. I spent seven years as a chemist and I really believed that the parenting advice we got today was backed by really stringent scientific research," she says. "And when I started looking at the studies as a scientist, I was really, really let down." She could...

Download 49.53 MB As the world embarks on a vast vaccination campaign, that we hope will bring the global pandemic under control, the other crisis facing us continues unabated: the climate emergency. Paul Barclay talks to three writers about the magnitude of the challenge, and the ‘elements of summer’ – like water, and fire - which are central to the climate change story. Recorded at Avid Reader bookstore on December 15, 2020. Presented by the Griffith Review. Speakers: Professor Susan...

'Falling,' which comes out in July, has already landed a $1.5 million film deal at Universal.

Flight Attendants First Thriller at Center of Bidding War (Exclusive) Courtesy of AVID Reader Press More than 14 major studios, networks, streamers and top filmmakers are pursuing screen rights to Falling, which is being described by some as Speed at 35,000 feet. A onetime flight attendant landed a seven-figure book deal — and, now, a Hollywood pact is expected to follow. On Feb. 4, the Associated Press broke the news of T.J. Newmans journey from flight attendant to first-time author, with ...

The narrative is a horror story - a different kind of airplane read - gave the author chills.