We talk with Annie Carl, founder of the Neverending Bookshop in Edmonds, Wash., a community bookstore that focuses on genre titles and children’s and YA. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
Among the week's headlines: concerns that 'defund the library' may become the new front in the book banning wars; the Texas Senate passes its school library bill; librarians in Illinois weigh in on the state's proposal to defend the freedom to read; and ALA launches a new initiative to combat... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
Libraries are increasingly being targeted by local and state legislators and protestors trying to ban books and block LGBTQ content. How is that affecting the people who work in them? Scratch nearly any kind of story—political, social, economic, cultural, and so on—and you’ll find a labor... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2023-04-14 03:00:00 UTC ]
Company denies breaking the law but agrees to pay $210,000 penalty imposed by Liquor & Gaming NSWFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe News Corp-backed wagering company Betr has been fined a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-04-14 02:39:52 UTC ]
Officials in Llano County considered closing the entire library system in lieu of returning challenged titles to its shelves. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-04-13 23:55:21 UTC ]
Her science fiction writing won awards. Her tarot books won her a devoted following. And she created DC Comics’ first transgender superhero. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-04-13 20:05:34 UTC ]
Join our community book club. Our mission is to get Southern California reading and talking. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-04-13 19:22:10 UTC ]
Censorship is surging thanks to an organised rightwing minority targeting books on LGBTQ and Black characters and issues“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door,” warns a character in Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s dystopian vision of an America where books are considered so dangerous they... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-04-13 17:21:33 UTC ]
A Publishing Perspectives exclusive: Beat Technology's newest platform is an audiobook and ebook app for Sweden's Adlibris book retailer. The post Norway’s Beat Technology Partners With Sweden’s Adlibris appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-04-13 16:52:02 UTC ]
DSTLRY hopes to improve the treatment of creators in the industry by offering an opportunity to reap the benefits of their characters and content. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-04-13 16:26:24 UTC ]
Ten years—ten years!—reliving JK Rowling’s journey from underdog pastiche to problematic bajillionaire seems like a lot, doesn’t it? And yet Max (formerly HBO Max) plans on sinking millions into a long-running reboot of the YA property. Obviously a lot happens in the books—frogs are eaten, naked... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-13 15:26:29 UTC ]
‘My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn’ is the opening story in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, a 1991 collection of short stories by the American writer Sandra Cisneros (born 1954). In the story, a young girl describes her friendship with a girl named Lucy, and it emerges that […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-04-13 14:00:16 UTC ]
A new drop of choice up-and-coming novelists has arrived on the morning tide. Granta magazine has announced its 2023 Best of British Novelists list, geared to future stars, including picks from Sigrid Rausing, Rachel Cusk, Helen Oyeyemi, Tash Aw, and Brian Dillon. The team picked a host of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-13 13:57:54 UTC ]
Omer Aziz on finding himself trapped between East and West in Jerusalem: “Everywhere I went there had been an implicit question everyone seemed to be asking: What side are you on?” | Lit Hub Memoir Books from the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, the most important arts patron you’ve never heard... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-13 10:30:31 UTC ]
There is absolutely no shortage of new manga adaptations coming to us this year. Check out some of our most anticipated titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-04-13 10:30:00 UTC ]
In 2021, “How the Word Is Passed” was on the hardcover nonfiction list for five weeks. Now Smith is back — with a book of poetry on the fiction list. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-04-13 09:00:21 UTC ]
Story collections are the country cousins of the American publishing landscape, tolerated with benevolent condescension while their authors are urged to produce that more glamorous product: novels. A novel might find a broad audience, even become a bestseller! Whereas—as a writer friend once put... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-13 08:53:59 UTC ]
How funny to curate a list about Boston when I never really considered it my home—possibly not until my new novel, The Lioness of Boston. I moved a lot as a kid—house to apartment, town to city, out of the country, back in, out again, until I finally moved back to the US and my […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-13 08:52:53 UTC ]
The journal’s once-in-a-decade selection of the best fiction writers under 40 has broadened its selection of 20 to include authors who ‘regard the UK as their home’Granta magazine’s Best of British Novelists list, which hails the literary stars of the future, has this year expanded to include... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-04-13 07:00:37 UTC ]
Rick Wolff, who published dozens of bestselling books as a business editor for Warner Books, Hachette Book Group, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, died April 10. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-13 04:00:00 UTC ]