City officials in Lake Forest Park, Wash., dedicated a section of 37th Avenue NE to science fiction and fantasy author Octavia E. Butler on July 29. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
Richard E. Grant, star of 'Loki,' 'The Lesson' and much more, on how writing his memoir 'A Pocketful of Happiness' helped him grieve for his wife. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-07-28 19:53:27 UTC ]
This week, the biggest event in tech took place in Seoul with Samsung's Unpacked showcase. Among other announcements, the company officially unveiled its latest foldable smartphone, the Galaxy Z Fold 5. It's not even available yet, but Amazon is offering a $200 gift card if you pre-order from... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-07-28 18:33:17 UTC ]
London's 13-year-old HopeRoad Publishing, focused on Caribbean, African, and Asian work, announces it's having cash-flow struggles. The post British Independent Publisher HopeRoad Opens Fundraising Appeal appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-07-28 17:14:45 UTC ]
For anyone with an eye on video game news, it’s been hard to ignore the recent rise of names like Annapurna Interactive, Devolver Digital, Private Division, Humble, Epic Games and Netflix tied to independent projects. The distribution process for indie developers has shifted over the past few... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-07-28 17:06:39 UTC ]
Sixty-nine (nice, but in Elvish) years ago this week, the godfather of high fantasy, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, published the first novel in a proposed thee-volume epic “largely concerned with hobbits.” The Fellowship of the Ring has, in the decades since publication, shifted over 150 million... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-07-28 16:55:39 UTC ]
The Primetime Emmys won’t take place on September 18th, according toVariety. The publication reported on Thursday that vendors scheduled to work the event have been told the ceremony is delayed because of the writers’ and actors’ strikes that have shut down all Hollywood productions and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-07-28 16:49:58 UTC ]
School district member files challenge to Arthur’s Birthday, 1989 book by Marc Brown, which is among 45 titles pending reviewA title in the Arthur children’s book series is facing a potential ban after a conservative activist claimed that it “damaged souls”.On 12 July, Bruce Friedman, a member... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-07-28 16:22:54 UTC ]
Gene Luen Yang to Headline 2023 Neustadt Lit Fest at OU News and Events [email protected] Fri, 07/28/2023 - 10:38 World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will award the... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-07-28 15:38:00 UTC ]
It’s never easy to decide what to pack for a trip. Whether you’re packing light for some quick business or heading out on the next big family vacation, it’s important to bring the right tech. Here at PCWorld we’re continually testing the latest gadgets to sort the good from the bad. This... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2023-07-28 14:06:47 UTC ]
Some tech purchases are no-brainers when getting ready for a fresh school year, like buying a new laptop or Chromebook. But other back-to-school products aren’t quite as obvious. They might seem purely optional—stuff you buy if you have money to throw around. But don’t be so quick to... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2023-07-28 10:45:00 UTC ]
It’s just about the end of July, and that means many things: that you still have time for those vaunted summer fun or vacation plans, if you haven’t done them yet; that the cooler (and perhaps welcome after all these heatwaves) weather of fall is approaching; that that my birthday month is just... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-07-28 10:30:47 UTC ]
Colson Whitehead’s Crook Manifesto, Patrick deWitt’s The Librarianist, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Silver Nitrate all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes for books.” * Fiction 1. Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-07-28 09:07:50 UTC ]
These novels remind us of old-fashioned human connections that can’t be severed, for better or worse. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-07-28 09:01:35 UTC ]
Laura Cumming’s Thunderclap, Kate Zambreno’s The Light Room, and John McPhee’s Tabula Rasa all feature among the best reviewed nonfiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes for books.” * 1. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-07-28 09:00:49 UTC ]
“Writing for kids had long been an ambition of mine, but until recently I didn’t know it had long been an ambition.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-07-28 09:00:25 UTC ]
“Writing for kids had long been an ambition of mine, but until recently I didn’t know it had long been an ambition.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-07-28 09:00:24 UTC ]
NASA is launching its very own streaming platform called NASA+ sometime this summer. While the space agency already livestreams launches and other events on its website, NASA+ will feature not just live broadcasts, but also collections of original video series. A handful of the first shows on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-07-28 06:30:42 UTC ]
Q+A’s executive producer, Erin Vincent, quits the ABC. Plus: News Corp staff told to pay for print copies of SMH and AFRQ+A is on life support. The ABC talk show is highly unlikely to be commissioned after this year, ending a headline grabbing 15-year run on ABC TV.Two days after Stan Grant... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-07-28 05:07:54 UTC ]
Unit sales of print books fell 6.1% last week. All six major categories had declines. In the year's strongest segment, adult fiction, sales couldn't keep pace with last year, when 'Where the Crawdads Sing' sold more than 123,000 copies. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-28 04:00:00 UTC ]