Last week the literary agent and soon-to-be author Alia Hanna Habib asked me how I’ve used my experience in the literary world to be a “good author” (my book comes out in July). Yes, this is a brag, because as someone who’s worked in and around the publishing industry for a couple of decades,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-04-10 09:58:17 UTC ]
A new progressivism, one that embraces construction over obstruction, must find new allegories to think about technology and the futureBlack Mirror is more than science fiction – its stories about modernity have become akin to science folklore, shaping our collective view of technology and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-04-10 07:00:24 UTC ]
The final book in Jim Heimann’s survey of a century of US advertising takes us to a decade where Apple sold a new way of living and mermaids hawked Evian. It’s a ‘swan song’, he says – for his series but also the industry as a wholeAs the longtime editor of Taschen’s All-American Ads book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-04-10 07:00:24 UTC ]
The author shares the stories behind 'The Twilight of Bohemia' (Black Sparrow, Apr.), an oral history of New York City's publicly funded Westbeth Artists Community, which has been home to jazz musician Gil Evans, photographer Diane Arbus, actors Danny DeVito and Rhea Pearlman, and many others. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
In these recent novels and story collections, authors use the conventions of genre as a launchpad to explore unsettling and all-too-real truths. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
Lerner launched his children’s publishing company in 1959 and built it up over the next 50 years into one of the country’s largest independent publishers of books for young people. He died in Minneapolis on April 8. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
The awards—which since 1985 have bestowed more than $10 million on early-career writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama—were announced at a ceremony at the New York Historical on April 9. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
With season three of ‘The White Lotus’ wrapped up, here are six new and upcoming mysteries that satisfy the same desire for stories about getaways gone wrong. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
Andrews McMeel Publishing—best known for its lifestyle, humor, and poetry offerings—is launching a religious book imprint, Amen Editions, targeting “creative Christians” and women in particular. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
Paddington, Lord of the Rings and 007 – but not Harry Potter – expected at Bedfordshire theme park. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2025-04-10 02:00:53 UTC ]
The elusive 87-year-old author’s new book is a noir caper set during the big band era following a detective in search of a cheese heiress Thomas Pynchon has written his first novel in more than a decade, publisher Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced.Shadow Ticket, due out in October, will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-04-09 15:56:27 UTC ]
Published in November, it will cover everything from Smith’s childhood to her rise as a punk rock star and later retreat from public lifePatti Smith has written a memoir that her publishers are describing as her “most intimate and visionary work” yet, which is due out this autumn.Bread of Angels... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-04-09 14:51:02 UTC ]
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 13, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-04-09 13:00:02 UTC ]
Plus, the new memoir from Gisèle Pelicot's daughter, a puzzle book series, another season of Watson, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-04-09 12:30:00 UTC ]
This week's new YA book releases lean into nerdiness and queer romance. Dive on into some excellent reads. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-04-09 12:30:00 UTC ]
In an industry ruled by #BookTok trends, Rodrigo Corral has become the publishing industry’s go-to designer by creating an undefinable style. There’s one big thing about Rodrigo Corral that does not initially make sense: The book cover maestro does not have a signature style. Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2025-04-09 10:00:00 UTC ]
So many of us are asked about favorite lines from books. I have favorite phrases: for example, “ineluctable modality” garnered from reading Joyce’s Ulysses over 40 years ago. It seems to have relevance in regard to whatever process or system that catches my attention enabling me to think about... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-04-09 08:58:35 UTC ]
Pioneering counterculture cartoonist Robert Crumb finally gets his due in Crumb (Pantheon, Apr.), a new biography from the Picturebox Comics founder and former Comics Journal editor. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
This powerful and scrupulously compiled record tells the story of Dranger’s family’s experiences leading up to and during the Holocaust—and serves as a powerful memorial to the suffering of its victims and survivors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Vermont Senator Peter Welch and former Virginia Rep Bob Goodlatte were among speakers at an AAP co-hosted event in Washington D.C. that stressed the importance of copyright as catalyst for U.S. innovation and opposed calls by those arguing the copyright protections should be dismantles to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-09 04:00:00 UTC ]