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More Sweet Reads April 1, 2017 @ University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
April 1st, 2017, bibliophiles, book artists, and food lovers around the world gather to celebrate the book arts where participants create an “edible book,” which can be inspired by a favorite tale, involve a pun on a famous title, or simply be in the shape of a book (or scroll, or tablet, etc). All entries will be exhibited, documented, then EATEN! Photographs of all edible books will appear in the Edible Book Festival gallery.
The Champaign-Urbana Edible Book Festival is sponsored by the University Library and Common Ground Coop, and supported by the generous help of campus and community volunteers and prize donors.
Best Collaborative Creation,
| Catcher in the Rye, by Cathy Blake and Craig Evans |
Alice in Wonderland
Created by Shilpi Saxena
Flower Ball
Created by Jen-chien Yu and Adelaide Kota
Researhers Go Back In Time Sniffing Morgan Library’s Original Odors
Smell sampling equipment on Ihesus: The Floure of the Commaundementes of God, printed in London by Wyken de Worde (1521) at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York (photo by Christine Nelson)
Carlos Benaim, master perfumer from International Flavors and Fragrances smelling one of J. P. Morgan’s Pedro Murias Cuban cigars (photo by Christine Nelson)
The sampling equipment on a leather-bound copy of The Golden Legend, printed in London by Wyken de Worde (1521) (photo by Christine Nelson)
Best Books Of 2016
8. You Are Having a Good Time, by Amie Barrodale
It’s fascinating to watch people do awful things to each other, especially when you can’t quite tell why they’re doing them, and neither can they. In this debut collection of stories, Barrodale senses that muddle is more common than motive. As one of her less-explosive failures puts it, “We are people who never get it right.”
Sweet Lamb of Heaven, by Lydia Millet
A paranoid thriller about a mother and daughter in flight from a sociopath husband, the novel is a frightening performance of vertigo. Millet delivers a narrator growing aware of her own unreliability
“The North Water…is a great white shark of a book ― swift, terrifying, relentless and unstoppable.” … A nineteenth-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp, and highly original .
The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
The audacious new novel about family and ambition from “one of the best living mystery writers” (Grantland) and bestselling, award-winning author of The Fever, Megan Abbott.
3. Private Citizens, by Tony Tulathimutte
It’s a rare and bracing thing to see a debut novelist confident enough to pour acid on an entire system (in this case, the one we call meritocracy). The millennials have teeth.
Popular Books
“A novel that dealing with big issues — race, class, and the ups and downs of long-term friendship — told with a dancer’s grace and ease.”
Before the Fall” by Noah Hawley
“From the award-winning creator of ‘Fargo,’ a thrilling page-turner about an airplane crash and its seemingly heroic survivors.”
The Nix” by Nathan Hill
“A big, smart novel about so many things: family, politics, revolution, and the things we choose to remember (and forget).”
Zora & Langston
Norton’s Amy Cherry bought the North American rights to Yuval Taylor’s Zora and Langston from William Clark, at William Clark Associates. The nonfiction work explores the friendship between Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes; Clark said it tracks their bond from their first meeting in New York City, through a road trip across the South, leading up to a bitter falling out. Taylor is a senior editor at Chicago Review Press and Cherry published his previous two books.
A Visit To The Literary South
DuBose Heyward’s enthralling story of “Porgy set in Charleston S.C.
Savannah,Georgia’s Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pirates House that played a part in his book “Treasure Island.” The childhood homes of Flannery O’Connor and Conrad Aiken are also in Savannah, as well as sites associated with John Berendt’s bestselling book, “Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil.”
Atlanta and Margaret Mitchell’s tiny Peachtree Street apartment where she wrote”Gone with the Wind.” 
Thomas Wolfe, North Carolina’s most celebrated author, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who for two summers lived at the Grove Park Inn, a short driving distance from the Wolfe Memorial and the Biltmore Estate, the latter of which is North Carolina’smost visited tourist attraction
Ernest Hemingway’s Key West Spanish Colonial home on Whitehead Street and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ home in Cross Creek near Gainesville. Hemingway’s Key West home is where he completed the bulk of his most renowned works including; “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” and “A Farewell to Arms.” Most of the contents in the house belonged to him,making a visit all the more meaningful. Pages from Rawlings’ Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Yearling,” spring to life on a visit to her Cross Creek home. Nearby her former homestead is the Ocala National Forest, which provides a vivid snapshot of the landscape that so inspired her writing “The Yearling.”
New Orleans, Louisiana is the South’s most magical and mysterious city, with several literary luminaries among its roster, including: Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Walker Percy and Lillian Hellman. 
