These new historical fiction reads promise lessons, romance, drama, and intriguing settings ranging from the 1700s to the 1970s! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-02-03 11:36:00 UTC ]
Libraries can celebrate BHM with displays, events, and more — but it won't mean much if the library isn't a safe place for Black people. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-02-03 11:31:00 UTC ]
In “Enough Already,” the veteran actor dishes about marriage, motherhood and what really matters to her right now. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-02-03 10:00:02 UTC ]
‘They so wanted to be the grown-ups still.’ An excerpt from Anna Beecher’s debut novel, shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer Award 2021. The post Here Comes the Miracle appeared first on Granta. Continue reading >> [ Source: Granta | 2022-02-03 06:44:54 UTC ]
Unit sales of print books fell 1.6% last week compared to the week ended January 30, 2021, and ended January down 5.6% compared to last January at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-02-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
In a 25-page brief, Maryland lawyers contend that the AAP is seeking to find a copyright violation where none exists, and reiterated their contention that the state has both the authority and a compelling interest to protect public libraries from "unfair" market practices. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-02-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
Essay Photo by Miko Guziuk / Unsplash In his newest book, What Is American Literature? (Oxford University Press, 2022), award-winning cultural commentator, translator, and editor Ilan Stavans, the publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2022-02-02 19:59:22 UTC ]
What happened to Agatha Christie in 1926? A new novel explores her curious disappearance. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-02-02 13:00:38 UTC ]
It's early to be making such predictions, but Brendan Slocumb's debut is as engaging as it is suspenseful. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-02-02 11:00:55 UTC ]
On February 2, 1922, Sylvia Beach, through her legendary bookstore and occasional imprint Shakespeare and Company, published James Joyce’s modernist novel, Ulysses, in its entirety for the very first time. (It was also Joyce’s 40th birthday.) Since then, it has been banned and celebrated,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-02-02 09:55:38 UTC ]
Early in Julia May Jonas’s searing debut novel Vladimir, the unnamed narrator, an “oldish white woman in her late fifties (the identity I am burdened with publicly presenting, to my general embarrassment)” finds herself in the last place anyone wants to be—a faculty meeting of a small New... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-02-02 09:50:43 UTC ]
A Tennessee school board removed the graphic novel about the Holocaust from middle school curriculums. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2022-02-02 08:44:58 UTC ]
Scout Comics, a small indie comics and graphic novel publisher, has grown quickly since its launch in 2015, thanks to both its list and an unusually diverse business model. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-02-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
The 50-year-old Costa Book Awards' 2021 cycle has chosen a book of sonnets called 'The Kids' by Hannah Lowe as its top honor. The post In London, Poet Hannah Lowe Wins the Costa Book of the Year Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-02-02 01:18:04 UTC ]
Book Reviews Antoine-François-Jean Claudet, [Multiple Exposures of the Moon] (1846–52), daguerreotype, 2019.47, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel / Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Queer... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2022-02-01 20:37:36 UTC ]
The upcoming Bologna Children's Book Fair program will include instructional sessions set up by the Bologna Book Plus team. The post In Italy, Bologna Book Plus Announces Some 2022 Events appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-02-01 15:56:56 UTC ]
Education technology firm Cengage Group has agreed to acquire cybersecurity education provider Infosec for $190.8m (£146m). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-02-01 14:29:54 UTC ]
Julia May Jonas' "Vladimir" is a thrilling "Lolita" update in which the deliciously wicked narrator is not the male abuser but his wife. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-02-01 14:00:41 UTC ]
When Roku and Nielsen struck a strategic alliance last March, users of connected TV's most popular platform were promised a major advertising upgrade. Roku, whose platform now has 56.4 million active accounts, is adding Nielsen's Digital Ad Ratings audience guarantees to its ad platform OneView,... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2022-02-01 14:00:00 UTC ]
"The Books of Jacob" is an incredible epic by recent Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-02-01 13:00:00 UTC ]