As if starring in three seasons of Sex Education wasn’t enough, Gillian Anderson’s embarking on a brand new project set to get our pulses racing. At Bloomsbury, Anderson is leading an update of Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden, a groundbreaking 1973 book that collected anonymous sexual fantasies.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-03-16 08:54:18 UTC ]
I first connected with Jennifer Rosner as fellow debut authors in early 2020 (you might recall what happened next). Historical fiction authors trip upon, excavate and fictionalize stories from the past that in turn inspire each other. I loved Jennifer’s brilliant debut The Yellow Bird Sings and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-03-16 08:52:55 UTC ]
The independent bookseller announced that its new building will be "larger" and "sturdier." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-03-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
A longtime defender of the freedom to read, Finan confirmed that he will retire this summer after a celebrated career in the service of free expression and First Amendment rights. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-03-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales posted surprisingly strong gains in January, jumping 15.9% over 2022. Sales in January 2023 were $997 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-03-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
Despite no new blockbuster title, unit sales of print books rose 4.2% last week, led by a 9.8% increase in sales of adult fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-03-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
The £10,000 Young Writer of the Year award from the UK's Sunday Times goes to Tom Benn for his fourth novel, 'Oxblood.' The post Tom Benn Wins England’s Young Writer of the Year Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-03-15 17:35:58 UTC ]
In FBI documents recently acquired by Unicorn Riot, a left-leaning independent media outlet, Chicago’s worker-owned Pilsen Community Books was said to be a meeting place for “anarchist violent extremists, or ‘AVEs,’ environmental violent extremists, or ‘EVEs’ and pro-abortion extremists.” As... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-03-15 16:14:24 UTC ]
The New York Public Library has announced its five finalists for the 36th Helen Bernstein Book Award for Journalism. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-03-15 15:31:16 UTC ]
Must be nice! We are happy for her! So glad that publishing can support artists with a livable wage! This week, Publisher’s Lunch dropped the news of Leigh Bardugo’s 8-figure 12-book deal with Macmillan Publishers. Bardugo published YA fantasy Shadow and Bone with Macmillan back in 2012,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-03-15 15:02:49 UTC ]
We’ve all been there. Maybe you were neck-deep in a work project, or you hopped too far down a Wikipedia rabbit hole, but at a certain point you looked up and realized you were drowning in a mess of browser tabs, with no clear way to put them all in order.Thankfully, there’s a variety of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-03-15 15:00:11 UTC ]
The world's largest international book publishing trade show opens its 75th iteration with 'Chronicles' of its past right up to this year. The post The 75th Frankfurter Buchmesse: A Time Line appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-03-15 14:07:57 UTC ]
Literary Hub is very pleased to reveal the cover for Naomi Alderman’s new novel The Future, which will be published by Simon and Schuster this November. Here’s more about the book from the publisher: A compulsive technological thriller, The Future is a tour de force of intelligence and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-03-15 14:00:10 UTC ]
The history of Project Gutenberg is connected to both the beginnings of the printing press as well as that of ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-03-15 10:35:00 UTC ]
A more interesting autofiction: DK Nnuro examines how Black writers are “appropriating” their way into a literary movement. | Lit Hub Criticism Is the “first job” memoir dead? Bryony Lau makes the case for new narratives of work. | Lit Hub Criticism “If Don Draper is a metaphor for white... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-03-15 10:30:59 UTC ]
‘The Book Cover Review’ is an unabashed celebration of what makes book covers such a singular art form. During the height of the pandemic, as many of us hunkered down with a tower of unread books, David Pearson was doing something different: He was thinking intensely about their covers.Read... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2023-03-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
Jon M. Sweeney, previously of Orbis Books, has joined Monkfish Book Publishing Company as associate publisher. Sweeney joins Colin Rolfe and Anne McGrath as newly named partners, taking an equity interest in the company. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-03-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
Francisco de la Mora’s 'Frida Kahlo: Her Life, Her Work, Her Home,' a new graphic biography of the great Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), takes the reader on a irresistible journey through her life story. An 11-page excerpt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-03-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
When IPG-owned performance marketing agency Reprise Digital began using a form of the same AI that powers ChatGPT a couple of years ago, it started with a test. The firm pitted its OpenAI-powered copywriting software, Transcribe--paired with human editors--against internal and external teams of... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2023-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
OpenAI unveiled GPT-4 today, its next-gen large language model that is the technical foundation for both ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbots. It’s a profound upgrade, potentially opening the door for major advances in both the capabilities and features of today’s AI... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2023-03-14 19:29:22 UTC ]