This spring’s buzziest debut fiction has no shortage of drama, whether in biotech startups, Native American reservation politics, psychotherapy sessions, the Scottish theater world, or women’s volleyball. The slate also contains two Hollywood-ready novels about missing persons. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
Since its founding in 2008, the Washington, D.C.–based nonpartisan nonprofit News Literacy Project has been working on its mission of ensuring that all students in the U.S. master news literacy skills before high school graduation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-03 05:00:00 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 ]
Last year saw major developments in AI licensing and legal victories for the freedom-to-read movement, two areas of ongoing importance to the Association of American Publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
Though there were no billion-dollar deals along the lines of private equity firm KKR’s 2023 sale of RBmedia and purchase of Simon & Schuster, the year did produce a number of notable acquisitions that indicate a few developing trends. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
Reagan Arthur picks up a memoir of solo travel, a pair of French sister-authors sell the story of their famous grandmother to Europa Editions, and more in this week’s book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
Known for her wildly imaginative fiction, the author says her latest novel is rooted in the way memory shapes both history and the future. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Publishers Weekly print magazine just got its first complete redesign in 20 years. Here's how it came together. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
Writing for the internet is an interesting career. It’s hard to know what’s going to go viral and what’s going ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-02 12:15:00 UTC ]
Another new year, another list of new children’s book releases being published in January. Reading new books in the winter ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-02 11:00:00 UTC ]
To the members of the literary community we lost this year, we say a last thank you, and goodbye. You will be missed. * Poet, novelist, and critic Fred Chappell died on January 4 at the age of 87. Bestselling celebrity biographer Anne Edwards died on January 20 at the age of 96. Pulitzer... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-02 09:56:02 UTC ]
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-01-01 14:00:57 UTC ]
Our annual Google calendar, updated throughout the year and to which readers can subscribe, keeps track of the dates of dozens of book business events of interest. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon editors' 10 books that defined this year, The Guardian released a big most anticipated list for 2025, 2024's big book trend, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-12-31 17:30:00 UTC ]
Never far from the pulse, a quick glance over Electric Lit’s most popular articles from this year will tell you a lot about what preoccupies our collective consciousness. Our most popular reading list features crime novels, suggesting a heightened level of intrigue when it comes to all things... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-12-31 12:05:00 UTC ]
After some two years of legal wrangling, Jones will finally get her day in court after the Louisiana Supreme Court vacated a decision tossing the defamation case and remanded it back to the appeals court with an order to hear the case on the merits. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Retellings of novels like Huckleberry Finn and David Copperfield help to keep the canon aliveIt might have lost out at the Booker, but James, a reworking of Huckleberry Finn by Percival Everett, was the unofficial book of 2024, topping best-of-the-year lists and winning the prestigious US Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-12-30 18:25:43 UTC ]
He wasn’t just prolific, publishing 32 books. His output also showed an unusual range that included memoirs and forays into historical fiction and even poetry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-12-30 10:58:27 UTC ]
Enhance your reading experience and protect your device with cases, sleeves, stands, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2024-12-29 13:02:00 UTC ]
The former U.S. president and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner, who authored every word of his 32 titles on politics, faith, and more, has died at 100. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-12-29 05:00:00 UTC ]