‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’ is one of the best-known short stories by Flannery O’Connor (1925-64), who produced a string of powerful stories during her short life. First published in the collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find in 1955, the story is about an American family […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2022-09-26 14:00:41 UTC ]
It’s difficult to say anything that hasn’t already been said about Torrey Peters’s debut novel, Detransition, Baby. It won the PEN/Hemingway Award, was a national bestseller, a NYT Notable Book, and named a Book of the Year by more publications than my word count limit will let me include. Not... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-09-26 11:05:00 UTC ]
The United Kingdom-based business book competition is in its 18th year. Its shortlist deals with economics, business, and politics. The post Financial Times Announces a Shortlist in the £30,000 Business Book of the Year Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-09-26 10:02:34 UTC ]
Emergence Magazine is an online publication with annual print edition exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. As we experience the desecration of our lands and waters, the extinguishing of species, and a loss of sacred connection to the Earth, we look to emerging... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-09-26 08:52:00 UTC ]
Qian Julie Wang’s Beautiful Country is out now in paperback from Anchor, so we asked about her routine and the intersection of writing and litigating. * What time of day do you write? I wrote Beautiful Country on my iPhone during my subway commute to and from my law firm job—so it was both the […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-09-26 08:51:56 UTC ]
Mantel, whose bestselling trilogy on the life of Thomas Cromwell earned her critical acclaim and three bestsellers, died on September 22. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-09-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
A smaller New England Independent Booksellers Association show was no less lively for it, with booksellers celebrating streaks of good sales and welcoming a new board to the association. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-09-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
3D printers, sewing machines, laser cutters and occasionally dogs are as much a part of today’s libraries as borrowing books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2022-09-26 00:05:30 UTC ]
Companies providing ghostwritten autobiographies for people wanting to share histories have seen surge in trade since CovidBrian Lewis grew up on a tough council estate after arriving in Britain as part of the Windrush generation. At the age of eight he developed an interest in chess and joined... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-09-24 14:00:06 UTC ]
The best YA book deals of the day, sponsored by Penguin Teen. `Penguin... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-09-24 10:30:00 UTC ]
On Monday, in what seems like a scene out of a science fiction movie, NASA will slam a spacecraft into a distant asteroid to see whether it can nudge its orbit — all in an effort to test a way to protect Earth from any potential future threats. ... Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2022-09-24 08:00:00 UTC ]
Ruairí Coleman, from County Armagh, has worked on everything from Thor to Iron Man. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2022-09-24 05:42:24 UTC ]
The two-time Booker Prize-winning author was known for “Wolf Hall” and two other novels based on the life of Thomas Cromwell. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-09-24 00:46:55 UTC ]
The Colombian book market registered 20,365 new titles in 2021 and boosted its exports 62 percent over 2020's numbers. The post Colombia in Spain: Bogotá Is Guest of Honor at Liber 22 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-09-23 21:25:41 UTC ]
The anonymous messages come as conservatives wage a culture war over events and books with LGBTQ or racial justice themes. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2022-09-23 21:22:11 UTC ]
Anyone who has been taking advantage of Amazon's liberal return policy regarding e-books could soon be in for a shock. That's because following discussions with the Authors Guild, Amazon has agreed to block automatic returns on digital books that are more than 10 percent read. Currently, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-09-23 19:10:20 UTC ]
By the time I read Hilary Mantel’s 1996 review of Kate Atkinson’s debut novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum in the London Review of Books, the novel had been a favorite of mine for over a decade. My mother gave me the book when I was in high school—both of us entirely unaware of […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-09-23 14:57:31 UTC ]
Neil Gaiman, Marjorie Henderson Buell, Gilbert Shelton and Roy Thomas will be honored for their comic book work at New York Comic Con on Oct. 7. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-09-23 13:00:07 UTC ]
Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel has died at 70 years old. She was a prolific writer of books, including WOLF HALL. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-09-23 12:55:04 UTC ]
The Cundill History Prize 2022 shortlist includes a current-year Pulitzer Prize winner among its eight titles from six publishers. The post Canada’s $75,000 Cundill History Prize: 2022 Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-09-23 12:24:47 UTC ]