In 1995, I left the Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle to teach English in Vietnam. Around that time, my friend and fellow bookseller Janet Brown traveled to Thailand to teach as well. There was no email then, and overseas phone calls were a luxury. So we wrote to one another, meditating on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-04-28 11:00:00 UTC ]
From live virtual reading groups to apps for organizing in-person meet-ups, we have tips to help you gather with your fellow bibliophiles. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2022-04-28 11:00:00 UTC ]
When learning about the Holocaust, it's important to center Jewish voices and books that don't shy away from the brutal realities of it. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-04-28 10:35:00 UTC ]
What is it like to be blind in an industry overwhelmingly dominated by sighted individuals? Jessica Powers, founder and publisher at Catalyst Press, spoke to George Mendoza and Kristen Witucki about crafting stories for sighted readers, finding community and release in fiction, and battling... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-04-28 08:58:13 UTC ]
Fiction writers Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Sequoia Nagamatsu join hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell live from the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri, where they talk about pop culture in the literary sphere, the blurring of the line between literary and popular fiction,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-04-28 08:56:36 UTC ]
Print unit sales were down in every category last week compared to the week ended April 24, 2021, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan, resulting in an overall decline of 12.6%. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
Insight Editions is teaming with author and pop-up paper engineer Matthew Reinhart to form a new imprint, Reinhart Pop-Up Studio. It will publish eight to 10 titles per year in a list that will ultimately include about half new content and about half titles based on licensed properties. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
The winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award will be honored in May at a ceremony parallel to the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Trustees Endorse 2022 Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-04-27 23:08:20 UTC ]
The promise of Sharjah Publishing City as a hub for the international book business has taken a step forward with Lightning Source. The post Ingram’s Lightning Source at Sharjah Publishing City appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-04-27 22:26:37 UTC ]
Iranian American author Azar Nafisi explores fiction as a means of engaging with the world, rather than retreating from it in “Read Dangerously.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2022-04-27 19:45:22 UTC ]
Edward Hirsch’s “The Heart of American Poetry” and Brad Leithauser’s “Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry” give reason to slow down and savor language Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-04-27 12:00:00 UTC ]
Louis Le Prince, arguably the creator of the first motion picture, disappeared in 1890. What happened? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-04-27 11:00:43 UTC ]
In our series “Can Writing Be Taught?”, we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the process of teaching writing. This month, we’re featuring Jason Schwartzman, an essayist, and fiction writer, and author of the memoir No One You Know: Strangers... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-04-27 11:00:00 UTC ]
“If they’re gonna ban books, then the whole library should be in play," Chaz Stevens told the Miami New Times. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2022-04-27 09:01:57 UTC ]
Satz, who headed sales at Bantam in the 1960s and 1970s under Oscar Dystel, died on April 9. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
Maryann Palumbo, who rose to become v-p and director of advertising, promotion, and publicity at New American Library, died April 3. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
As the two-year anniversary approaches of the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, new and forthcoming books reflect religion and spirituality publishers’ intensified efforts to recruit and acquire books by BIPOC authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
Singer Cindy Morgan turns to fiction for Tyndale; two sisters bring three-picture-book deal to WaterBrook Multnomah. and St. Martin’s takes a book on ‘toxic theology;’ and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Dalai Lama expounds on emptiness, and environmentalist Bill McKibben reflects on faith, patriotism and social change, are among the upcoming titles from religion and spirituality publishers in May. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
A chance encounter in the National Library of Australia’s digital archive holds clues about an 1843 cookbook published in Parramatta. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2022-04-26 19:56:33 UTC ]