Purple Mountain Press, which has published local and regional books about the natural and cultural history of upstate New York since 1973, is now under the ownership of four locals seeking to revitalize the indie publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers and comics shops continue to scramble to shift to other distributors and brace themselves for lost income following Diamond Comic Distributors’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in January. Meanwhile, the entire comics business is asking itself: What now? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
In his second collection, ‘Loud & Smart & in Color’ (Silver Sprocket, Feb.), the cartoonist and his signature animal avatar return with a collection that toggles between absurd and the mundane—this time, in full color. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
The moody, stylishly crafted graphic novel, about a young woman of mixed race who struggles to make sense of the course of her life in 1970s America, is forthcoming from Iron Circus Comics in March. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
Reese's Book Club picks Allegra Goodman's latest novel, B&N and Read with Jenna both spotlight Jessica Soffer's ‘This Is a Love Story,’ and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
Faber, the storied U.K. independent publisher, has launched a new division, Faber US, in the United States. The move comes a decade after Faber first nodded to plans to enter the American market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
The 1991 collaboration between Sarah Byam and the late comics artist Tim Sale has been reissued with the help of a crowdfunding campaign and San Diego–based indie publisher Clover Press. PW talked with Byam about returning to ‘Billi 99’ and working with Sale, who died in 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rights holders. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2025-02-11 20:50:03 UTC ]
The 85-year-old’s Book of Lives promises to lift the lid on her unconventional Canadian upbringing, prize-winning writing career, and the experiences that shaped her workMargaret Atwood has written the memoir her fans have long been hoping for, it has been announced.In Book of Lives, which is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-02-11 17:30:32 UTC ]
Attention fellow travelers, would-be radicals, curious culture vultures, and ABD English scholars! Our friends at Verso Books—the publishing imprint behind such titans of theory as Edward Said, Mike Davis, Judith Butler, Norman Finkelstein, and Tariq Ali—have launched a new virtual reading group... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-11 16:45:34 UTC ]
Big Five publishers ran the table for hardcover sales last year. Plus: an author's surprising success selling books on dating apps, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-02-11 16:10:00 UTC ]
Exclusive: Former prime minister Tony Abbott to address Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in LondonGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCoalition frontbencher Bridget McKenzie and Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming, and key figures from News Corp, are set to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-02-11 14:00:07 UTC ]
The audience peaked at 135.7 million in the second quarter. Fox Sports is projecting a Super Bowl record average audience of 126 million U.S. viewers across television and streaming platforms for Philadelphia’s 40-22 victory over Kansas City on Sunday night.The game was televised by Fox, Fox... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2025-02-11 13:26:01 UTC ]
Want to get involved in a book club? Here are 11 clubs, what they're reading in February, and how you can take part in the conversation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-02-11 13:00:00 UTC ]
How working with fishing communities in Indonesia has led to the co-creation of an illustrated book that highlights climate justice issues. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2025-02-11 12:42:31 UTC ]
Last year, burned out from going straight into a full-time lectureship after a pandemic PhD, I needed the kind of intellectual rest that only one thing brings: re-reading an old favorite novel. For me, that was Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels Trilogy, the fantasy series that got me through my... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2025-02-11 12:10:00 UTC ]
“I am determined to keep writing, it has never mattered to me more.” Hanif Kureishi on trauma, recovery and what it means to be a writer. | Lit Hub Memoir Just in time for Valentine’s Day: 25 writers explain the anatomy of a good sex scene. | Lit Hub Craft Pankaj Mishra on nationalism,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-11 11:30:21 UTC ]
Exclusive: Beeban Kidron says plans will lead to ‘wholesale’ transfer of wealth from creative industries to tech sectorUK politics live – latest updatesA consultation on changes to UK copyright law is “fixed” in favour of artificial intelligence companies and will lead to a “wholesale” transfer... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-02-11 11:27:11 UTC ]
The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: * Justin Haynes (Ibis) Shane McCrae (New and Collected Hell: A Poem) Haley Mlotek (No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce) Maggie Su (Blob: A Love Story)... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-11 09:57:52 UTC ]
This story about a child with cerebral palsy is badly misleading – and a slap in the face for families like oursAmazing news from Netflix: there is an extraordinary treatment available for children with very severe neurological disabilities, one that, given the appropriate level of parental... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-02-11 08:00:11 UTC ]