Newspaper publisher Gannett Co. confirmed Friday that it’s laying off some of its newsroom staff as part of a cost-cutting effort to lower its expenses as its revenue crumbles amid a downturn in ad sales and customer subscriptions Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2022-08-12 21:45:49 UTC ]
Try as it might, Hogwarts Legacy developer Avalanche Software can't magically make its creation arrive any sooner. In fact, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has once again delayed the game, which at least now has a firm release date. It will hit PC, PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-08-12 18:52:47 UTC ]
The annual Barnes & Noble sale is underway and offering 50% off some of the most popular books this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-08-12 16:55:39 UTC ]
The best nonfiction book deals of the day, covering cookbooks, gardening, lifestyle, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-08-12 15:52:27 UTC ]
On the 75th anniversary of India’s partition, scholars from the US, Canada, France, UK and Australia write about their favorite book or film that best explains the trauma of a violent division. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2022-08-12 12:16:11 UTC ]
Historian Elisabeth Griffith includes divisions alongside victories in this rich, intersectional account of the struggle for equality. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-08-12 10:00:50 UTC ]
David Maraniss shows how the legendary athlete was celebrated, belittled and exploited. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-08-12 10:00:27 UTC ]
Going from nonfiction to fiction can be both liberating and paralyzing, Hafner explains. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-08-12 10:00:26 UTC ]
Marine veteran Elliot Ackerman, who helped evacuate Afghans, reflects on the war's flawed decisions, moments of kindness and "disastrous" end. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-08-12 10:00:04 UTC ]
The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. At a literary festival a few years ago, during question time after a panel discussion, an audience member told me, “You’re one of those intuitive writers,” stepping hard on the adjective. Aren’t we all... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-08-12 08:52:32 UTC ]
HarperOne buys a book about a French art historian who tracked down looted artworks during WWII, Del Rey takes on a reimagining of MacBeth from Lady MacBeth’s perspective, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
Author Salman Rushdie, now 75, was attacked Friday morning as he was being introduced for a lecture he was giving in western New York. He was punched and stabbed, suffering multiple wounds. As of Saturday morning, Rushdie was recovering from surgery and was on a ventilator. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
A double-digit increase in adult fiction sales and gains in YA were not enough to offset declines in adult nonfiction and the juvenile categories, leading to a 2.1% drop in unit sales of print books in the week ended Aug. 6, 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
The crossover between tabletop gaming, comics, and book publishing is intensifying. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
'Long Live the Pumpkin Queen,' a paranormal YA romance based on 'The Nightmare Before Christmas,' is the #6 book in the country. Plus the August book club picks hit our hardcover fiction list, and BookTok is atwitter over 'Husband Material.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
Half Price Books, a Texas-based company, has firmly established itself as the nation’s third-largest bookstore chain with 121 stores. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
In a day dominated by testimony from some of publishing's leading agents, the overall theme was that the biggest advance is not the only thing that is important in reaching an agreement with a publisher, and that these agents believe that S&S authors would benefit from becoming part of PRH. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
Much of his work was imbued with a sense of the end, so it is fitting to look back at three of his best works to mark the illustrator’s passing Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2022-08-11 15:31:10 UTC ]
Ingrid Rojas Contreras tells the story of her grandfather Rafael Contreras Alfonso, a Colombian healer with otherworldly gifts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-08-11 14:57:38 UTC ]
A seance precedes the happy return of an annual tradition that was suspended by the pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-11 11:00:00 UTC ]