As a key lawsuit in Llano County is set to be heard by the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, freedom-to-read advocates consider their next moves. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
Alongside educators and librarians, indie booksellers across the country are rising up to defend the freedom to read. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
It was a good night for Canadian comics publishers at the Ignatz Awards ceremony, held at Small Press Expo in North Bethesda, Md., on September 14, with Drawn & Quarterly taking home three awards and Pulping Collective taking home two. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
PW checks in with the 'Book Riot' writer, whose weekly Censorship News column tracks efforts to ban books in school and libraries. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Texas county, with a population about 3,000, has become an epicenter in the fight against book banning. Leila Green Little explains the echoes of history are playing out in rural Texas—and in communities across the across the nation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert once had a falling out over a spoon, but their new cookbook has them in the kitchen, with love, laughter, and the right utensils. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-09-15 09:03:46 UTC ]
Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert once had a falling out over a spoon, but their new cookbook has them in the kitchen, with love, laughter, and the right utensils. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-09-15 09:03:46 UTC ]
Print media do face challenges but the influence they offer – especially on the right – is considerable‘Expect the unexpected” is the bland but pointed advice given by the evasive editor of the Daily Beast to the bemused William Boot, accidental protagonist in Evelyn Waugh’s deathless Fleet... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-09-15 08:00:52 UTC ]
National Book Award longlist week, historical fiction and the literary canon, THE POWER BROKER at 50, and more in this week's biggest book news. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-09-14 16:03:33 UTC ]
A party supported by pals who made it through rush hour rain was appropriate for an anthology celebrating female friendshipNervous as I am of organising parties, I could hardly have launched a book about friendship without throwing one. And so it was that last Tuesday night, I found myself in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-09-14 15:00:31 UTC ]
Plus: Meta’s AI scrapes the UK, Google digitizes your passport, Chrome syncs your tabs everywhere, and (have you heard?) Apple announces some new iPhones. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2024-09-14 14:30:00 UTC ]
A YA twist on THE MIST, a Korean-inspired take on ALICE IN WONDERLAND, and more of today's best YA book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-09-14 13:00:00 UTC ]
The two bestselling authors who both started in TV discuss writing as a second career, natural justice – and what they really think of literary fictionIn the four years since Richard Osman published his first Thursday Murder Club novel he has consistently topped the bestseller lists, and now his... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-09-14 09:00:23 UTC ]
In his memoir “Frighten the Horses,” Oliver Radclyffe recalls his gradual awakening to the sexuality and gender identity he spent 40 years denying. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-09-14 09:00:06 UTC ]
The National Book Award Longlist for Fiction, Author Trading Cards, more Osman on screen is coming, and more in today's book news. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-09-13 21:36:00 UTC ]
The OUP USA Guild, part of the News Media Guild and representing around 150 workers, is demanding that Oxford University Press reverse the recent firing of US-based workers, claiming the layoffs are in violation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement that management and the union signed just... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-09-13 16:16:21 UTC ]
What happens when you wish upon a pawn shop ring and everything you thought you wanted ends up being a nightmare? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-09-13 16:00:00 UTC ]
WARNING: This article contains details of abuse. In his new memoir Just Say Yes, Quirks and Quarks host Bob McDonald charts his path from an unhappy and sometimes abusive home to Canada's foremost explainer of all things scientific. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2024-09-13 14:31:59 UTC ]
The 75th National Book Awards' longlist in fiction is drawn from an initial pool of 473 books submitted by publishers for consideration. The post US National Book Award 2024 Longlists: Fiction appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-09-13 14:03:51 UTC ]