“Our collaboration is like a river,” Doyle says of working with her agent. “We’re in it all the time together.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-24 12:00:00 UTC ]
This year marks the sixth anniversary of the 2015 Paris Agreement, an international accord that marks the first time nearly every nation on Earth promised to tackle the climate crisis. The goals set by that agreement, however, have not been met. As the climate crisis worsens, more novelists than... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-03-24 08:53:41 UTC ]
She campaigned against female genital mutilation and wrote more than 50 novels, plays, story collections and nonfiction books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-23 09:59:11 UTC ]
Analysis: if Bertelsmann, owner of Penguin Random House, buys US publisher, writers expect smaller deals and less choice for readersUK watchdog investigates Penguin owner’s Simon & Schuster takeoverJokes circulated online when, in 2013, Penguin and Random House merged: would the new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-03-22 23:24:23 UTC ]
Asian American and Pacific Islander members of the book business have launched a social media campaign, #StandUpforAAPI, intended to raise awareness of the ongoing violence and hate incidents targeting AAPI communities. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
The winners of the 2021 Windham-Campbell Prizes administered by Yale University are Dionne Bran, Kate Briggs, Nathan Alan Davis, Renee Gladman, Vivian Gornick, Michael R. Jackson, Canisia Lubrin, and Natalie Scenters-Zapico. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Authors Guild Foundation has reached a deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to publish a collaborative novel edited by the acclaimed novelist Margaret Atwood that will feature the writing of more than a dozen notable authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
The three shortlists announced today comprise nine titles selected from a total 39 longlisted works. Winners are to be named in May. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Shortlists: Literature, Children’s Literature, and Young Author appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-03-16 16:41:14 UTC ]
Norton Juster, architect and author of the beloved children's book The Phantom Tollbooth, has passed away. Here is the legacy he has left. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-03-10 16:54:56 UTC ]
Interviews Photo by Sonette Watt Stephanie McKenzie is a poet and scholar who works for the English Programme at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her scholarly work has traced the flourishing of Indigenous literature in... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-03-09 21:39:45 UTC ]
As China’s science fiction authors are elevated to the status of oracles, Qiufan’s career—and his genre’s place in society—have gone through the looking glass. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2021-03-09 12:00:00 UTC ]
Children's book blogger Fabia Turner has launched a competition for Black children's book writers, to be sponsored by inclusive indie publisher Knights Of. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-04 23:23:40 UTC ]
She was known for two book series centered on complex female characters, and for stories that illuminated her native North Carolina. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-03-02 23:14:40 UTC ]
An Ivy-educated lawyer, he wrote several books that made him one of the foremost commentators of the 1990s on race and class in the United States. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-02 10:58:56 UTC ]
Nobel Prize-winning author Sir Kazuo Ishiguro has revealed concerns that young writers are “self-censoring” to avoid an “anonymous lynch mob that turns up online and makes their lives a misery”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-01 15:01:44 UTC ]
Penguin Random House UK is publishing a series of essays from its authors, including Richard Dawkins and Charlie Mackesy, offering reasons to feel hopeful about the months and years ahead. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-01 14:00:07 UTC ]
Lamott’s 12th faith-based essay collection, “Dusk Night Dawn,” spins self-deprecating ruminations into manna for the majority. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-01 13:00:00 UTC ]
Sourcebooks has launched a new imprint company founder Dominique Raccah said will “expand what publishing can be for women authors.” E.L. James' backlist titles will become part of the imprint April 1. Pam Jaffee has joined Sourcebooks to help direct the imprint. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
Watch "Migrations" author Charlotte McConaghy live from Australia at the L.A. Times Book Club. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-02-24 22:47:16 UTC ]
Resourceful publicists are having to be inventive to launch debuts as the lockdown rumbles on and shops remain closed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-23 09:01:07 UTC ]