Fiona McFarlane has won the 21st annual Story Prize for her collection Highway Thirteen. The Story Prize’s $20,000 prize is among the largest first-prize amounts of any annual U.S. book award for fiction.The judges—writer and editor Elliott Holt, writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin, and bookseller Lucy... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-03-26 11:20:24 UTC ]
Two new dark academia stories, a story of rage, and more of this week's new YA book releases. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-03-26 11:00:00 UTC ]
“Somewhere beneath the bugle blast, the beer bloat, the crush of bodies, I was part of something.” Kyle Seibel on attending the Gathering of the Kyles (in Kyle, Texas). | Lit Hub Memoir “I am talking, of course, about #Scandoval, a word that I, a lowly lifestyle journalist and nascent author,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-03-26 10:30:02 UTC ]
The U.K.-based academic publisher has announced plans to use AI to translate books into English from languages that would otherwise have too small of an audience to justify paying for human translation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
The latest volume in Abouet and Oubrerie’s graphic novel series about a savvy teenage girl’s adventures in 1980s Côte d’Ivoire finds its protagonist, Aya, in college, where she gets caught in a campus protest turned violent. A 7-page excerpt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
A 70-year-old woman, her great-nephew, and a mysterious pair of armchairs take an action-filled trip to Paris in the graphic novel murder mystery Gilt Frame (Dark Horse, Mar.), the first-ever collaboration by the mother-son duo. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
After two months of intense speculation, the comics business finally has an answer to its biggest question of late: the bankrupt Diamond Comic Distributors is slated for acquisition by Alliance Entertainment, a new player in the sector. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
As challenges to free expression show no signs of abating, Penguin Random House and the National Coalition Against Censorship have announced separate fundraising initiatives to counter the threat. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Washington, D.C., who urged President Donald Trump to show “mercy” in his second term, has inked deals with two Penguin Random House imprints for books for young people. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
From Doubleday to Grove to Carroll & Graf, the veteran publisher and mentor to many lived a life of books that those who know him remember as one of a kind. Here, his former assistant shares her own memories. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
Ahead of the States' National Library Week, Penguin Random House and Sourcebooks open a 'Banned on the Run a fundraising effort. The post Penguin Random House’s ‘Banned on the Run’ Event: US$10,000 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-03-26 02:24:13 UTC ]
As Bologna Book Plus prepares its full-morning "AI Summit for April 1, new condemnation of Meta and pirated copyrighted content. The post UK Publishers and Cambridge, Call out Meta and Piracy in Generative AI Training appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-03-25 22:30:24 UTC ]
Amy Pascal and David Heyman have been described as "two of the most accomplished" producers around. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2025-03-25 18:20:34 UTC ]
Literary editor and chief book reviewer of the Times who later joined the Observer as its theatre criticMichael Ratcliffe, who has died aged 89, was the former theatre critic of the Observer. He was one of the last of the “man of letters” breed of journalist who encompassed all the arts, with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-03-25 17:34:14 UTC ]
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Press Month—a Lit Hub staff member will be recommending a small... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-03-25 13:15:31 UTC ]
What two better editors to discuss the Golden Age of magazine publishing than Terry McDonell and Graydon Carter? As McDonell writes in Alta, the two first met in 1985 when they were trying to start their own magazines and trying to secure funding from Carl Navarre, owner of Atlantic Monthly... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-03-25 08:59:16 UTC ]
When I was nine years old my mother temporarily moved from our home in Los Angeles to New York City for a job in private banking. The family lore is that I wrote her letters, including short stories about a family of hamsters. I don’t remember what I was feeling then or why I did […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-03-25 08:58:26 UTC ]
TAICCA and Taipei International Book Exhibition Foundation present a new pavilion and author-illustrators at Bologna. Sponsored. The post Taiwan: Authors, Rights Trading, and a Picnic at Bologna appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-03-24 22:58:46 UTC ]
In general, consumers should take all bold claims about health with a degree of skepticism. In the corners of social media dominated by wellness content, influencers recommend an assortment of treatments and products to support weight loss, fight exhaustion, or promote other desired health... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2025-03-24 16:15:37 UTC ]
Take a look at the most popular book genres in each state, plus the District of Columbia, over the last 12 months. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-03-24 14:29:43 UTC ]