The following is from Working, Studs Terkel’s the classic oral history of Americans’ working lives. * Babe Secoli She’s a checker at a supermarket. She’s been at it for almost thirty years. “I started at twelve—a little, privately owned grocery store across the street from the house. They didn’t... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-15 08:56:16 UTC ]
Beaming Books takes Laura Alary's picture book tale of a Christmas that almost wasn't, Behrman House signs Howard Blas's guidebook for families and clergy planning b'nai mitzvah celebrations for children with disabilities, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
The decline was due in part to an earlier Easter this year, as well as the continued soft sales in the nonfiction category, according to Circana BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
The cultural commentator, speaker, literary agent, and author's first children's book 'My Guncle and Me' (Running Press) is a gentle, authentic story of Henry Higgleston, a young boy bullied and teased at school for being different until his “guncle” comes for a visit and shows young Henry that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
While their counterparts in trade publishing struggle to increase sales, eight senior executives in the religion space discuss a banner 2023 and bright prospects for the current year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
Beginning January 1, Penguin Random House Publisher Services will sell and distribute the entire TokyoPop frontlist and backlist across all sales channels worldwide. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
Two veteran publishers are settling into new roles this month at two venerable Christian publishing houses. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
Beginning January 1, Penguin Random House Publisher Services will sell and distribute the entire TokyoPop frontlist and backlist across all sales channels worldwide. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
Following its acquisition of Taunton Press in December, the enthusiast magazine publisher Active Interest Media has sold the Taunton Books imprint to Abrams. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
More Black Americans are choosing nonbelief as their "religion" and Humanism as their new identification, says Anthony Pinn, author of 'The Black Practice of Disbelief: An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of Black Nonbelievers' (Beacon, May 22). PW caught up with Pinn to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
The campaign, featuring pregnant and near-nude celebrity cookbook author Molly Baz, was deemed indecent by a billboard company ahead of Mother’s Day. In case you missed it, last week, Times Square was the home of a 45-foot billboard featuring an image of pregnant celebrity cookbook author Molly... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2024-05-14 22:45:00 UTC ]
If you weren't familiar with breastfeeding brand Swehl before this week, you surely are now. This week, the company's 45-foot billboard featuring cookbook author Molly Baz, her pregnant belly, a rhinestone bikini and two lactation cookies covering her breasts took over... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2024-05-14 21:45:47 UTC ]
World Literature Today Announces 2024 Student Translation Prize Winners, by the Editors of WLT News and Events [email protected] Tue, 05/14/2024 - 16:27 Lucy Coleman and Madeline Jones, winners of the 2024 Student Translation PrizesWorld Literature... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-05-14 21:27:38 UTC ]
This year’s Digiday Media Awards winners celebrate new technologies and the power of partnerships throughout their digital media campaigns. Themes across 2024’s winners include leaning into a surge in short-form video content as consumption for the format increases, implementing more interactive... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2024-05-14 18:30:00 UTC ]
Conde Nast chief revenue officer Pamela Drucker Mann announced her departure from the media company this morning, according to an internal memo shared by the company. Mann, who joined Conde Nast as the sales director for beauty at Jane magazine in 2005, has served as the... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2024-05-14 17:00:24 UTC ]
She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, with the Academy saying she could "accommodate the entire epic complexity of the novel in just a few short pages." Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-05-14 16:57:50 UTC ]
The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-05-14 16:13:08 UTC ]
Check out this year's winners of the Barnes & Noble Children's & Young Adult Book Awards (plus, learn about this summer's reading program for kids!) Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-05-14 12:45:00 UTC ]
Guardian investigation identifies Jonathan Keeperman, a former lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, as ‘Lomez’A Guardian investigation has identified former University of California, Irvine (UCI) lecturer Jonathan Keeperman as the man behind the prominent “new right” publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-05-14 10:00:15 UTC ]
The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: * Noé Álvarez (Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico) Anna Dorn (Perfume & Pain) Abby Geni (The Body Farm) Aimee Nezhukumatathil... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-14 08:56:57 UTC ]