From upstarts to stalwarts, independent presses are stocking the upcoming season with unconventional and adventurous books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
It's been more than three years since the launch of online retailer Bookshop.org, and the online retailer is eager to remove Amazon’s stranglehold on online sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
The season’s most anticipated releases run the gamut, from rediscovered literary gems to spine-tingling suspense to candid memoir. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
It’s been a busy year for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, which is rolling out a series of new programs designed to diversify the industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
Among the week's headlines: bomb threats are made against librarians in Illinois and Oklahoma; Texas leaves the ALA, with Wyoming headed that way, too; and Washington State Librarian Sara Jones offers a powerful defense of librarians. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
A former "Friends" writer's new memoir details her experience on the show at a time when the stars seemed unhappy, and the writers room wasn't so friendly. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-08-25 01:20:03 UTC ]
If you’ve been feeling constrained by Microsoft Excel’s methods for manipulating data, you’re in luck—Python can now be used within your spreadsheets. The inclusion of the popular programming language went live earlier this week, with the feature available as a public preview. According... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2023-08-24 20:21:37 UTC ]
The author and essayist Daniel Kehlmann will give the laudation on Frankfurter Buchmesse’s final day, for Salman Rushdie’s award. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Rushdie Speaks September 13 in a First Amendment Summit hen the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-08-24 19:37:32 UTC ]
In 1966, after more than a quarter century in obscurity, the Dominica-born British author Jean Rhys published what is now considered to be her masterpiece. Wide Sargasso Sea is an astonishing, hallucinatory fantasy about the early life, and eventual psychological disintegration, of the first... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-08-24 12:59:00 UTC ]
From the Pulitzer and Booker to the Walter Scott Prize and more, these award-winning historical fiction books are the best in the genre! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-08-24 10:36:00 UTC ]
A brief exploration of twin brother comic book superstars Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon known for DAYTRIPPER, THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY, and others Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-08-24 10:35:00 UTC ]
Patty Lin says that Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry and co forced rewrites of gags they didn’t like by performing them badlyFriends may have been a worldwide smash hit that made megastars of its cast, but – according to one of its writers – the actors weren’t always trying their... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-08-24 10:34:01 UTC ]
Your book club can help fight book bans! See how many squares on this anti-censorship BINGO board you can fill out together. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-08-24 10:30:00 UTC ]
Nobody would dare to boil down Ursula Le Guin’s marvelous writing—all that fantasy, all that science fiction, poetry, essays, translations—into one idea. But in a pinch I’d pick two sentences from her 2014 National Book Award speech: “Capitalism[’s] power seems inescapable. So did the divine... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-08-24 10:00:21 UTC ]
At halftime of this year’s Super Bowl, the marquee game of the NFL season, the Kansas City Chiefs trailed the Philadelphia Eagles 24-14 in Glendale, Arizona. What transpired next was the latest remarkable comeback in the career of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, one of the most compelling... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-08-24 09:55:25 UTC ]
Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” got to her: “Sure, it’s a novel full of unbelievable violence and apocalyptic nightmare stuff,” says the best-selling author of “Wonder,” “Pony” and “White Bird,” soon to be a feature film. “But the humanity and love is there right from the first line.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-08-24 09:00:41 UTC ]
DeBin previously served as deputy director of Portland's Literary Arts, as well as a national account manager at Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Penguin Young Readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
The release of the second season of 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' on Amazon Prime gave a small boost to the Jenny Han novels that the series is based on last week, but it wasn't enough to stop a 7.1% drop in sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus will present the annual Tom Spurgeon Award, which recognizes individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of comics, to former 'PW' senior news editor Reid, who in his 36-year tenure at 'PW' was instrumental in expanding the magazine's coverage of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
American screenwriter and producer behind the creation of the hugely successful soaps Dallas and Knots LandingDavid Jacobs, who has died aged 84, was an aspiring novelist when he created the show Dallas, a worldwide phenomenon and US television’s first peak-time soap success since Peyton Place.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-08-23 13:56:48 UTC ]