After a public outcry, Scholastic this week said it will discontinue its optional diverse stories collection and pledged to "redouble" its efforts to "combat the laws restricting children’s access to books." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
B&H signs two members of its editorial team who are writing board books; a reporter brings her findings on ‘The Radicalization of Young White Christian Men’ to Broadleaf; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
A look at envy through a spiritual lens, an author’s exploration of ‘Who Are the Jews,’ are among the books coming from religion and spirituality publishers in November. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
Mind-body-spirit houses are adding titles for children centered on earth-based spirituality, magic, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
IVP Bible Studies will launch in February 2024 in an effort to reach readers who are not connected to a church but still want to learn more about the Bible. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
Michelle Williams' impression of Justin Timberlake as she narrates Britney Spears' memoir is going viral as 'the greatest clip of audio since Watergate.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-10-25 01:06:01 UTC ]
Ananda Devi Wins the 2024 Neustadt Prize News and Events [email protected] Tue, 10/24/2023 - 18:02 Ananda Devi, winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Photo by J. F. Paga, courtesy of GrassetNORMAN, OKLA. (Tuesday, October 24,... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-10-24 23:02:22 UTC ]
The actor Michelle Williams reads the audiobook version of the recently liberated pop star’s memoir, “The Woman in Me.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-10-24 21:32:55 UTC ]
Oprah has chosen her 103rd book club pick. It's the latest from a two-time National Book Award winner and one of our great modern writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-10-24 17:43:43 UTC ]
Novelist, poet, and educator Heba Abu Nada, a beloved figure in the Palestinian literary community and the author of Oxygen is Not for the Dead, was killed in her home south of Gaza City by an Israeli airstrike on Friday. She was thirty-two years old. In her final tweet, written in Arabic on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-10-24 15:54:33 UTC ]
Shachar Orren, co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer, EX.CO In recent years, Meta, TikTok, Twitch and even Pinterest have encouraged digital publishers to create vertical content to adhere to their platforms’ standards for engagement driven by our vertical mobile device screens. In response,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2023-10-24 13:02:04 UTC ]
In 2016, says the Philippines' Sen. Loren Legarda, 'The book industry embarked on a road map to the world and today, it reaps the fruit of that work.' The post Frankfurt’s 2025 Guest of Honor Philippines: Senator Legarda appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-10-24 12:42:25 UTC ]
The publisher’s $10,000 Freedom of Expression prize invites teens to write about a banned book that changed their life, against a backdrop of rising censorshipPublisher Penguin Random House has launched a new writing award in the US celebrating freedom of expression in response to a rise in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-10-24 12:34:56 UTC ]
A Frankfurt Book Fair panel on independent comics publishers highlighted the innovative ways publishers get their books to readers. The post From Asia to Latin America: Independent Comics Publishers in Frankfurt appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-10-24 11:10:56 UTC ]
These eight spellbinding witchy graphic novels include manga romances, kids' comics, and epic fantasy comics. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-10-24 10:30:00 UTC ]
Dann McDorman, the executive producer of “The Beat With Ari Melber,” gave up writing fiction in his 20s. Now, he’s publishing his first novel at age 47. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-10-24 09:02:04 UTC ]
“The Upstairs Delicatessen,” a memoir by Dwight Garner of The New York Times, traces his life’s twin passions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-10-24 09:00:14 UTC ]
Commercial book publishing was (and is) unbearably white. In 1971, when Toni Morrison became a trade editor, about 95 percent of the fiction published by the big commercial houses was by white authors. By 2018, that number dropped only to 89 percent. One of the only other black women working as... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-10-24 08:50:40 UTC ]
Novelist, playwright and screenwriter Marie Ndiaye has had the attention of the French literary world since she published her first novel, As to the Rich Future, at seventeen. Born in Pithiviers, the daughter of a French school teacher mother and a Senegalese father, she won the 2001 Prix Femina... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-10-24 08:20:28 UTC ]
A meta-narrator has an authorial awareness of a story being told. They make their presence known, intervening when they deem necessary. In the case that they are also the protagonist (which is often) then they must be as adept as immersing themselves in the real-time story unfolding up close as... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-10-24 08:15:09 UTC ]