If you can remember as far back as February 2019, surely you recall Ian Parker’s barn-burner of a New Yorker story about the trail of deception left by book editor turned novelist Dan Mallory, whose authorship of the best-selling thriller The Woman in the Window is by far the least compelling... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-20 18:57:57 UTC ]
“Alone Together,” edited by Jennifer Haupt, is a timely gift for the quarantined reader. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-08-20 12:09:09 UTC ]
Author Florence Given is launching an instagram campaign, encouraging followers to pose with a copy of her debut feminist memoir, Women Don't Owe You Pretty (Cassell). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-20 11:12:41 UTC ]
Ah, yes, the good old days: when novelists lent their faces and testimonials to advertisers hoping to sell tires, or a certain kind of beer, or fancy watches. It’s something you don’t see very much anymore, because we writers have become too principled to participate in advertising campaigns.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-19 17:14:06 UTC ]
Chris Bohjalian, Mary Kay Andrews and other novelists have turned to Zoom and Facebook Live to find their audience. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-08-19 12:00:00 UTC ]
Alice Wong’s work as an activist, podcaster, writer, qualitative researcher, and editor is on full display in her new anthology Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century. Her new anthology is an extension of the projects she’s become known when it comes to always... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-08-19 11:00:00 UTC ]
Noirwich Crime Writing Festival has today confirmed Anita Terpstra and Paddy Richardson will be its Unesco City of Literature virtual writers in residence for 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-18 15:45:42 UTC ]
“Borges and Me,” a memoir by Jay Parini, recounts a young poet’s travels with Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine master. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-08-18 09:00:07 UTC ]
Submissions are now open for Spread the Word's 2021 London Writers Awards, which this year focus on developing authors of literary fiction, commercial fiction, YA/children’s fiction and narrative non-fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-18 03:44:16 UTC ]
American professional associations for authors, publishers, and booksellers write to the House subcommittee on antitrust issues about Amazon. The post US Publishers, Authors, Booksellers Call Out Amazon’s ‘Concentrated Power’ in the Book Market appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-08-17 14:51:35 UTC ]
From 'islands of pain' to the 'peril of exposure,' writers have captured the fear, emptiness and despair that characterize life during the current pandemic, writes a poet and English scholar. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2020-08-17 12:24:39 UTC ]
Children's authors and sports stars are to take part in a series of book-themed sporting challenges to raise money for the National Literacy Trust. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-17 05:01:34 UTC ]
Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile’s editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. We keep our daily episodes short and sweet, with audiobook clips to give you a sample of our featured listens. The hosts of the “Call Your Girlfriend” podcast are warm, open, and matter-of-fact narrators... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-14 08:44:10 UTC ]
Get to know the work of these Black science fiction authors, from the established and prolific to debut authors shaking up the genre like Cinderella is Dead author Kalynn Bayron. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-08-13 10:37:00 UTC ]
The Women's Prize for Fiction has just published 25 literary works by female authors with their real names for the first time. Could we do the same for Miles Franklin and Henry Handel Richardson here? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2020-08-13 06:43:53 UTC ]
This is cool: The Ohioana Library Association has released a map and list tracing a new “literary trail” through the state, featuring historical landmarks, museums, unique libraries, and other hidden destinations. The list isn’t limited to the state capital of Columbus, either. The selections... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-12 19:09:38 UTC ]
Atlantic's Corvus imprint has acquired two novels from debut author Katy Cox, including M is for Mummy, a "warm and witty" story about parenting an autistic child. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-11 05:57:45 UTC ]
The artistic director for The Working Class Writers' Festival is issuing a call-out to publishers, agents and booksellers to get involved in next year's event. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-10 22:51:27 UTC ]
The UK's authors' union opens a new push for grassroots funding of small emergency grants needed by authors in the pandemic. The post UK Book Industry: Society of Authors’ Hardship Fund Renews Appeal for Donations appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-08-10 14:09:22 UTC ]
The Society of Authors is launching a fundraising drive to help top up its Authors’ Contingency Fund, ensuring it can continue to offer hardship grants to authors as the effects of the health crisis continue to be felt. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-09 17:04:03 UTC ]