Heinold spent 25 years at Borders and Waldenbooks as a buyer and merchandise manager. She died at her home in Alexandria, Va., on February 10. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
Sagnette was most recently VP and editorial director at Atria, where she edited such authors as Jamie Ford and Jennifer Weiner. She will join Putnam as VP and editor-in-chief on July 15, rounding out its executive team following the Sally Kim's departure. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
Brooding on Existential Mysteries in Stephen King’s You Like It Darker, by J. Madison Davis Book Reviews [email protected] Mon, 06/24/2024 - 15:20 Photo by Shane LeonardAs I wrote in World Literature Today some years ago, the quality of Stephen... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-06-24 20:20:45 UTC ]
Major music labels are taking on AI startups that they believe trained on their songs without paying. Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Group sued the music generators Suno and Udio for allegedly infringing on copyrighted works on a “massive scale.” The Recording Industry... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-06-24 17:29:16 UTC ]
No Village Voice, no Village home.Peter Barbey, a billionaire apparel mogul who led a failed effort to revive the storied Village Voice newspaper in the mid-2010s, is looking to say goodbye to the neighborhood in the publication’s name.Barbey has listed his 4,000-square-foot duplex condo at 140... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-06-24 17:26:41 UTC ]
Anyone who’s an avid Kindle reader is gonna want this tiny page turner for Kindle devices—and right now you can get it for just $15 if you’re an Amazon Prime member (or $18 if you aren’t). This nifty gadget is a total game changer if you love reading ebooks but hate having to tap the... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2024-06-24 16:23:09 UTC ]
Richard Hatch gave up a career as a physicist to become a magician — and a one-man historical preservation society dedicated to a German author killed in the Holocaust. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-06-24 15:00:18 UTC ]
Washington D.C.'s Folger Shakespeare Library reopens with an impressive new exhibit, audiobook narrators get their due, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-06-24 15:00:00 UTC ]
The Beijing International Book Fair reports finishing its 2024 run with a gain in public attendance and some 1,600 exhibitors. The post Beijing’s 2024 Book Fair Closes, Some 300,000 Attending appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-06-24 12:58:54 UTC ]
Before he began to write, John Cheever put on a three-piece suit and took the elevator from his Manhattan apartment down to the basement, where he took off his jacket and tie, and then began. Hemingway famously needed a drink to loosen him up. Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver has said,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-06-24 08:55:40 UTC ]
“A memoir is closer to historical fiction than it is to biography” writes artist and author Jill Ciment in her retrospective memoir Consent. At seventeen, Ciment had an affair with her forty-seven-year-old painting teacher. The two married, and Ciment wrote the original account of the affair in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-06-24 08:55:21 UTC ]
The history of abortion in the United States is the story of my life—or my life’s work. I’ve run a clinic since 1971, two years before Roe and now, fifty-three years later—two years post-Roe—I’m still at it, running Choices Women’s Medical Center. Since the roll-back in women’s human rights that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-06-24 08:54:36 UTC ]
Cohen, the indie comics stalwart whose name has become synonymous with the Seattle-based indie graphic novel mainstay Fantagraphics over the past 15 years, will work to bolster the growth of Korean webcomics in the U.S. market as director of PR and marketing at Tapas. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
The struggling Australian online retailer hopes to hear by the end of the week if any party or parties will come to its financial rescue. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
Urda died unexpectedly the morning of June 24 after collapsing at the gym. S&S CEO Jonathan Karp called him "was a quintessential sales executive, with a deep knowledge of our industry." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Prime Day 2024 is almost here, so it’s a good time to start thinking about the things you’ll want to look for once the deal wave hits. Everything from gadgets to clothes to household necessities will be on sale during the event, and if you’re a subscriber, you’ll have access to all of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-06-23 14:31:27 UTC ]
The physician and researcher who weathered the COVID pandemic, the HIV/AIDS crisis and countless Republican conspiracy theories has a new book. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-06-23 10:30:27 UTC ]
A big week of book news includes Barnes & Noble buying an indie, surprisingly strong book sales, JAMES coming to the big screen, and much more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-06-22 13:45:00 UTC ]
Starring an undergraduate student at Oxford, Rosalind Brown’s debut novel is exquisitely attuned to the thrill and boredom of academic life. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-06-22 09:00:56 UTC ]
A new book from Quarto, 'Yes, Boys Can!, publishes in October, based on 'HEAL' professions: health, education, the arts, and literacy. The post Quarto Schedules Richard V. Reeves’ ‘Yes, Boys Can!’ for Frankfurt appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-06-21 21:54:32 UTC ]