Poet and activist Essex Hemphill’s 1992 collection had been out of print for years until New Directions finally put it back on shelves this spring. It took quite a bit of work to get it there. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
Crystal Maldonado, Julie Murphy, and other authors discuss the importance of joyful representation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
Ballantine bets big on a novel about a runaway heiress in Prohibition-era Detroit, Louise Penny takes Chief Inspector Gamache back to Minotaur for two more, and more in this week’s book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
Abby Jimenez tops our hardcover fiction list with Say You’ll Remember Me. Plus Ahnest Kitchen’s Sarah Ahn lands at #2 on our hardcover nonfiction list with her Umma, and Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud team up for The Cartoonists Club. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
Columnist for the Australian delivers monologue on Labor’s power bill promise, while his colleagues at the paper decide the Liberal leader won the debate after allWant to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter hereChris Uhlmann, who is not exactly a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-04-11 03:59:24 UTC ]
The Sharjah SPC Free Zone-based Ingram Lightning Source installation opens a collaboration with Saudi Arabia's Rushd Bookstore program. The post Ingram’s Lightning Source Sharjah Partners With Saudi Arabia’s Rushd appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-04-10 22:32:33 UTC ]
Author Art Bell shares a quick exchange with Walter Mosley and how he went about writing his memoir as a thriller and vice versa. The post How to Write Your Memoir as a Thriller and Your Thriller as a Memoir appeared first on Writer's Digest. Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2025-04-10 20:00:00 UTC ]
On May 2nd, the U.S. Postal Service will unveil a new stamp to kick off Children’s Book Week. The newest honoree to be cast Forever in adhesive is Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight, Moon. The new pane will pay tribute to your favorite bedtime story via Clement Hurd’s beloved illustrations. Letter... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-04-10 16:39:17 UTC ]
Vauhini Vara’s new memoir critiques the web in a novel way, turning its products into a kind of poetry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2025-04-10 14:30:00 UTC ]
From the Pittsburgh Business Times: Consumer-analytics company CivicScience has named Gretchen Tibbits its new president and COO. The Pittsburgh-based company, which was founded by CEO John Dick in 2007, use online polling to gather data. Tibbits brings a considerable amount of media industry... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2025-04-10 12:24:19 UTC ]
It’s another week where the bestseller lists cannot agree: no single title made it into the top ten on all ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-04-10 10:45:00 UTC ]
Last week the literary agent and soon-to-be author Alia Hanna Habib asked me how I’ve used my experience in the literary world to be a “good author” (my book comes out in July). Yes, this is a brag, because as someone who’s worked in and around the publishing industry for a couple of decades,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-04-10 09:58:17 UTC ]
The final book in Jim Heimann’s survey of a century of US advertising takes us to a decade where Apple sold a new way of living and mermaids hawked Evian. It’s a ‘swan song’, he says – for his series but also the industry as a wholeAs the longtime editor of Taschen’s All-American Ads book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-04-10 07:00:24 UTC ]
A new progressivism, one that embraces construction over obstruction, must find new allegories to think about technology and the futureBlack Mirror is more than science fiction – its stories about modernity have become akin to science folklore, shaping our collective view of technology and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-04-10 07:00:24 UTC ]
The author shares the stories behind 'The Twilight of Bohemia' (Black Sparrow, Apr.), an oral history of New York City's publicly funded Westbeth Artists Community, which has been home to jazz musician Gil Evans, photographer Diane Arbus, actors Danny DeVito and Rhea Pearlman, and many others. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
The awards—which since 1985 have bestowed more than $10 million on early-career writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama—were announced at a ceremony at the New York Historical on April 9. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
Lerner launched his children’s publishing company in 1959 and built it up over the next 50 years into one of the country’s largest independent publishers of books for young people. He died in Minneapolis on April 8. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
Andrews McMeel Publishing—best known for its lifestyle, humor, and poetry offerings—is launching a religious book imprint, Amen Editions, targeting “creative Christians” and women in particular. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
In these recent novels and story collections, authors use the conventions of genre as a launchpad to explore unsettling and all-too-real truths. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
With season three of ‘The White Lotus’ wrapped up, here are six new and upcoming mysteries that satisfy the same desire for stories about getaways gone wrong. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-10 04:00:00 UTC ]