California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick, who celebrates the state in "My California," joins the L.A. Times Book Club on Dec. 12. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-11-16 18:48:29 UTC ]
If there’s a book lover on your holiday list, consider yourself lucky. There’s a huge range of gifts you can give them — and you don’t even need to know what’s next up on their to-be-read list. I’m a former bookseller with an abiding fiction habit who now tests... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-11-16 16:00:47 UTC ]
The Fairfax firm says it will divest its Rockville-based Tellenger subsidiary at the close of the deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2023-11-16 13:22:39 UTC ]
Ned Blackhawk received the nonfiction award, with “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-11-16 12:36:45 UTC ]
“I have a lot of books on near-death experiences, psychic phenomena and past-life regression on my shelves,” says the two-time poet laureate, whose new book is the memoir “To Free the Captives.” “These kinds of books nudge me to remember our world is but one facet of an enormous continuity.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-11-16 10:00:11 UTC ]
The literary community holds onto empathy as a dear goal while navigating the complexities of the human experience through the eyes of characters from diverse backgrounds. Readers worldwide have long celebrated the promise of empathy as a conduit for profound understanding, and reading from... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-11-16 09:49:02 UTC ]
Writer and editor Zeke Caligiuri joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion, a new collection of essays on class he co-edited along with eleven other incarcerated writers. The volume’s contributors include Eula Biss, Kao Kalia... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-11-16 09:08:02 UTC ]
The first edition of De Los|Reads features a new fiction book from Mario Vargas Llosa, a cookbook from Sandra A. Gutierrez, several memoirs and a book for children who aren't ready for bed. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-11-16 05:37:22 UTC ]
Hidden Pigeon Company, launched earlier this year to expand the reach of children’s book author Mo Willems’s portfolio, has named four new executives to its management team, including publishing veterans Carol Roeder and Jennifer Levine. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
Led by huge numbers for two Rebecca Yarros titles, unit sales of print books rose 3.9% last week over the comparable week in 2022 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
Nine members of the environmental group Children’s Book Creators for Conservation spent October 8–21 in the eastern South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, volunteering with the stewardship organization Wild Tomorrow. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
This year's Texas Book Festival, ran on Veteran's Day weekend, November 11 and 12, in Austin. The event was well attended, drawing tens of thousands of people for talks and panel discussions with more than 300 authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has begun notifying Comixology users that they’ll no longer be able to read comics on the app come December 4. Comixology is merging with the Kindle app, and users’ libraries will soon only be accessible via the latter. The move caps off the ruination of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-11-15 21:39:11 UTC ]
In a move to bring the US and UK Hachette divisions closer, London's David Shelley is becoming CEO of both units. The post David Shelley To Lead Hachette in Both the UK and USA appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-11-15 21:10:53 UTC ]
Broadcaster NDR launches investigation after Hubert Seipel admits receiving support for work on two books on Russian leaderA German publisher has announced a stop to the sale of books authored by a leading journalist and Russia expert after an investigation showed he had received at least... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-11-15 14:31:23 UTC ]
Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, November 19 Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-11-15 14:00:45 UTC ]
Montréal is a city of parallel universes, often most at ease ignoring each other. Across linguistic, cultural, and generational orbits, it’s also a city that’s shown tremendous appetite for German author Jenny Erpenbeck’s work, in great part due to De Stiil, an anglophone bookstore in the heart... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-11-15 10:00:51 UTC ]
Lately, there’s been a lot of attention on how children learn to read, and I’m heartened that phonics is making a comeback. But sounding out words (also called “decoding”) can be laborious for young readers. As the mother of three and a veteran educator who believes passionately that a love of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-11-15 09:40:24 UTC ]
To celebrate the launch of the new Guardian Long Read magazine this week, join the Long Read editor David Wolf in discussion with regular contributors Sophie Elmhirst and Samanth Subramanian• The Guardian Long Read magazine is available to order now• The best stories take time. The Guardian Long... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-11-15 05:00:09 UTC ]
Employees at D&Q, the Montreal-based literary graphic novel publisher, and its sister bookstore, Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, are unionizing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-15 05:00:00 UTC ]