Solidaridad has been a special part of my life in Manila for more than two decades. Its presence is very unassuming and I was witness to all the changes to the establishments around it, but the bookstore stayed the same. I’m proud to have brought my friends there, and also former foreign co-workers who wanted… Read More Solidaridad: A Soliloquy
What author doesn’t dream of writing a book that inspires a movie, now available to stream on Netflix? F.H. Batacan’s SMALLER AND SMALLER CIRCLES (written 26 years ago) not only pioneered a genre (crime fiction) and won the Palanca and the National Book Award, but also got picked up by Soho Press for international publication.… Read More Rage Against the Machine: F.H. Batacan Shows How One Can Merge Anger with Grace
Podium Mall’s usually quiet hallways echoed with screams of tired trick-or-treating children that Saturday (be honest; if we were dolled up as zombies, painted head to toe in corpse-white make-up to boot, and compelled to traipse up and down five floors asking store owners for candy, we’d probably be whining our heads off as well).… Read More Haunted Reads: Filipino Horror Writers Speak About Facing Our Fears
To read the English translation of filmmaker and Ateneo college professor Alvin Yapan’s book Worship the Body (Sambahin Ang Katawan) is to be awash in a sea of images. Of clothing revealing nakedness (between man and wife, and man and fellow man). Of sea and sky, lands urban and rural. While acclaim and praise follow… Read More Worship The Body: What Price Love?
Words are magic and music by their own, but when you combine words plus the instantaneous visceral impact of a well-drawn comic … the result can be earth-shaking (as anyone who has turned THAT PAGE of the Watchmen graphic novel remembers!). It’s even more impactful when the stories and the artists are our very own!… Read More It’s Philippine International Comics Festival (PICOF) weekend!
We all write in our everyday lives. We just write different things. Whether it’s enigmatic Facebook posts set to public but targeting one person in particular, a teacher’s lesson plans, a corporate girlie’s outlines for client pitches, or marketing strategies, there’s something almost magical about the transferring of abstract thought onto a blank page, whether… Read More How to Write: A Workshop by Penguin SEA Pinay Authors
Last seen in Cebu at the beginning of the month, Malaysian mobile book fair Big Bad Wolf (fondly called BBW for short) is now in Manila, in a new location! Parqal is a new shopping mall in Aseana City, Tambo, Parañaque. On the 3rd floor, more than 2 million books from BBW can be found… Read More The Big Bad Wolf is here and we’re all literary and willing Red Riding Hoods
Mark your calendars, because this Saturday is Komiket Manila in Ayala Malls Manila Bay, plus Free Comic Book Day in Fully Booked branches in Luzon and Metro Manila! Originally launched in 2002 on the first Saturday of May, Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) is a global event embraced by Fully Booked. It has been an… Read More May 18: A Big Day for Local Graphic Novel/Comic Book Lovers
The annual World Book Day event organized by Instituto Cervantes de Manila is back! After 2023’s venue at Intramuros, this year it returns to the more familiar Ayala Triangle Gardens. From 9:30 AM to 11:00 PM, local publishers will be selling books with a special discount price of 20%. If you buy a book, you… Read More Día del Libro 2024
More than a hundred events will take place between April 25 (Thursday) and 28 (Sunday), 2024, at the World Trade Center in Pasay City! From cosplays to book signings by local authors, to storytelling and arts and crafts workshops, there’s fun to be had by all members of the family, regardless of age. It’s a… Read More Bookish Happenings at the 2nd Philippine Book Festival
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