“How’d you become a children’s book author?” The answer for Kouri Richins, a Utah mom of three who wrote Are You With Me?, a children’s book about coping with grief, is that she allegedly poisoned her husband, then wrote a book about loss. The Associated Press reports that Utah police arrested... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-09 14:02:02 UTC ]
This month, we’ve got an amazing selection of new manga to choose from, including some great picks for animal lovers! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-05-09 10:32:00 UTC ]
“Even though every atom in my body told me opening a shop would be an economic failure, I’d hoped it would save us.” Kelly McMasters on starting a bookstore to save her marriage. | Lit Hub Memoir 21 new books out today: Shakespeare! Eurovision! Revenge! | The Hub This month’s Lit Hub Asks: 5... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-09 10:30:21 UTC ]
“Our Migrant Souls,” the author’s first nonfiction book in nearly a decade, is a deeply personal meditation on Latino American experience. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-05-09 09:00:12 UTC ]
Today, celebrities tell their stories in memoirs as a duty forced on them by their agents and their fans. They can publish them to supplement a thriving career or to give a declining career a boost with the allure of finally-let-it-all-hang-out details. Sometimes a memoir launches a career all... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-09 08:53:59 UTC ]
The first time I sliced open a box of books in my new bookshop, I breathed in deeply. The pulpy starch of the paper caught in the back of my throat, while the faint chemical sting of the new ink burned high in my nostrils. I imagined a world where this smell was a constant […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-09 08:53:39 UTC ]
We seek inspiration, consolation – and the unvarnished truth. And we know that all the best stories are trueCaroline Knox is director of the Boswell book festivalMy love affair with biography began aged nine, when my subscription book club sent me a compendium of “true life” adventure stories.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-05-09 08:00:15 UTC ]
VIZ Media has launched a new service that will make English versions of the latest chapters of select manga titles available to subscribers as soon as they're released in Japan. The service, called VIZ Manga, features manga published by Shogakugan and Shueisha and costs $2 a month. Its current... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-05-09 04:57:23 UTC ]
Publishing is facing its severest set of challenges in a generation, experts noted at this year's AAP annual meeting: book bans, the lack of diversity, climate change, and “unrelenting” challenges to copyright. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
A first-time survey of the ethnic, racial, and gender makeup of Christian publishing shows the industry is overwhelmingly white and chiefly led by men. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Author says paparazzi and reporters began to follow him in his car and snoop around his homePrince Harry’s ghostwriter has said he bonded with his subject over the “callousness” of paparazzi and media after the “frenzied mob” around the book Spare led to photographers and journalists invading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-05-09 03:35:56 UTC ]
A Saskatchewan First Nations woman's story about her father's residential school experience has won the world's top journalism award. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2023-05-08 23:02:08 UTC ]
Two novels, "Demon Copperhead" and "Trust," shared the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction while "His Name Is George Floyd" took home the nonfiction prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-05-08 21:55:41 UTC ]
Here are the 2023 Pulitzer Prize winners in the Books categories, including Fiction, History, Poetry, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-05-08 20:46:00 UTC ]
The winners and nominated finalists of the 107th Pulitzer Prizes were announced today via remote video stream. The winners each take home $15,000 dollars and serious bragging rights, not to mention an instant ticket into a very illustrious club. The full list of winners and nominated finalists... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-08 20:08:40 UTC ]
The Internet is abuzz over a forthcoming nonfiction book, a 544-page memoir (including 40 full-color photographs) slated to be published by Flatiron on July 9th. Why? Because The Internet thinks it was probably written by Taylor Swift. It all started when the owner of indie bookshop Good... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-08 16:47:07 UTC ]
A 57-year-old “self-styled poet” (aren’t they all?) has spent $116,000 of his own money to build a bookstore in a mountaintop village. Oh, and it’s shaped like the number 7 and contains 7,000 books. No, this is not a parable. As Jiang Libo told the South China Morning Post: Before my bookshop... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-08 15:04:22 UTC ]
Forty years ago, my not-yet-gentrified neighborhood in Brooklyn had one bookstore, Mostly Books. When the owner retired, it became a video store (RIP Cousins). Then it was derelict, then it was councilman’s office, and now it’s (obviously) a real estate office. But in all those years, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-08 15:00:19 UTC ]
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, these 15 firms could be poised for a stock market rally. Ever since ChatGPT’s release, Americans have been wrestling with the idea of generative artificial intelligence automating our existence. Large language models are trained on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2023-05-08 14:36:00 UTC ]
This afternoon, at around 3PM (EST), from Columbia University in New York City, the winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction will be announced. As well as a check for a cool $15,000 dollars (which feels a little low, tbh), the victor will gain entry to a very exclusive... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-08 14:30:42 UTC ]