The political news publisher The Washington Post began laying off 4% of its workforce Tuesday, the latest in a series of headaches to plague the storied news outlet over the last year. The reductions, which will affect fewer than 100 staff in total, will apply primarily... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2025-01-07 18:10:08 UTC ]
Jewish Life in Harbin, China: A Conversation with Jean Hoffmann Lewanda by Susan Blumberg-Kason Interviews [email protected] Tue, 01/07/2025 - 07:08 Shalama and Paul, Shanghai, 1950. Photo courtesy of Jean Hoffmann LewandaI met the author Jean... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2025-01-07 13:08:24 UTC ]
When I was 23, my best friend from college invited me to a networking mixer at the headquarters of a top publishing house in New York City. I was in graduate school at The New School at the time, and already working on the manuscript of what would become my first book, Born to Be […] The post... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2025-01-07 12:10:00 UTC ]
Esteemed editor and publisher Margaret Frith, retired president of children's books at Putnam, died in her sleep at her home in Huntington, N.Y., on December 11, 2024. She was 88. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
The retired CEO of Abrams Books has teamed with author and editor Sheridan Hay to form Filmore Projects, which will offer consulting, literary, and marketing advice for writers, publishers, and creative arts organizations and will also include a book publishing and packaging imprint, Galpón Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Department of Education has officially ended plans to change eligibility rules that could have undermined the viability of Inclusive Access programs, which allow college students to pay for educational materials at below market rates. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins Holland has agreed to acquire four lifestyle imprints from Gottmer Uitgevers Groep, including Becht (cookbooks and eco-friendly lifestyle), Altamira (mind, body, and spirit), Dominicus (travel guides), and Hollandia (water sports). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
Park & Fine Literary and Media and Brower Literary & Management have merged to form Park, Fine & Brower Literary Management. Celeste Fine and Kimberly Brower will act as co-CEOs of the new agency, which will represent authors across all genres. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
The acclaimed novelist and historian runs Mexican government publishing house El Fondo de Cultura Económica. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-01-06 21:22:02 UTC ]
The publishing industry can feel like an opaque, black box to aspiring authors, with countless gatekeepers—agents, editors, publicists, book buyers and more—shaping the process behind the scenes. Even established authors can find the sector confusing as they attempt to read the tea leaves behind... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2025-01-06 12:05:00 UTC ]
Dallas-based Deep Vellum Publishing has acquired Fum d'Estampa Press, a British small press founded in 2020 that has published 30 translated works from Catalan, Spanish, French, and Norwegian. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
The average income for a writer is now £7,000. For our sake and the country’s, we need financial assistanceThis week will be like A-level results week for authors, but with added economic jeopardy. For a good whack of the 100,000 writers and translators in the UK, finding out how many books they... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-01-05 08:00:15 UTC ]
The It Books of 2024, the book design trend that swept the publishing industry, a legal win for the freedom to read, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-04 16:00:00 UTC ]
Pulitzer prize winner Ann Telnaes had drawn a cartoon of the paper’s owner kneeling before Donald TrumpThe Washington Post’s Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from her position at the newspaper after its refusal to publish a satirical cartoon depicting the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-01-04 15:23:11 UTC ]
One year-end summary from Fable, a social app where people share what books they read, told the user, “Don’t forget to surface for the occasional white author, OK?” Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2025-01-03 20:01:04 UTC ]
Booker prize-nominated author and critic who was known for his Catholic novels and satires on academic lifeDavid Lodge, who has died aged 89, was, like his close friend Malcolm Bradbury, a professor of English literature who became even better known as a novelist. The two men occupied adjacent... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-01-03 18:04:53 UTC ]
10 nonfiction books hitting shelves this month that you'll want on your TBR ASAP. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-03 13:30:00 UTC ]
At the Authors Guild Foundation’s third-annual WIT: Words, Ideas, and Thinkers Literary Festival in the Berkshires this September, acclaimed author Jamaica Kincaid spoke with journalist and editor Sandra Guzmán about her latest work, An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children, illustrated... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-03 09:56:55 UTC ]
Well, well. 2025, miraculously and mundanely, is here. For many readers in America and the world at large, this January represents the beginning of new cycles in more than one way, including the start of a new political reign in the White House that will certainly usher in just the opposite of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-03 09:22:16 UTC ]
As librarians prepare to gather in Phoenix for the ALA’s final LibLearnX conference, this year’s event looks to be going out on a high note. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-03 05:00:00 UTC ]