Sanjana Varghese had been working as a freelance journalist in London for around a year when the coronavirus pandemic hit. As countries around the world went into lockdown, many organisations froze their commissioning budgets, while others halted business entirely. Several of the pieces... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-21 20:08:07 UTC ]
Check out tried-and-true recipes crafted by these skilled chefs, and keep these must-have cookbooks at the ready in your kitchen library. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-05-21 10:38:04 UTC ]
On May 21st at 7:30 pm. EST Community Bookstore is hosting a virtual conversation about Curzio Malaparte’s Diary of a Foreigner in Paris between writer Gary Indiana and NYRB Classics editor Edwin Frank. You can register for free and learn more here. * Curzio Malaparte is a phrasemaker before... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-05-20 08:48:48 UTC ]
Emily St. John Mandel, author of the pandemic bestseller "Station Eleven," discusses her novels with the L.A. Times Book Club. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-05-19 23:03:32 UTC ]
One juror for the 2020 Young Writer of the Year award says she hopes 'we won’t see a rash of virus or pandemic stories.' The post Amid ‘the ‘Low-Level Hum of Panic,’ the UK’s Young Writer Award Names Its Jury appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-05-18 12:37:26 UTC ]
Sebastian Faulks, Kit de Waal and Tessa Hadley are among the judges for this year's Sunday Times and University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-18 10:25:47 UTC ]
Welbeck Publishing Group has signed a three-book deal with debut historical writer Ben Creed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-17 20:25:57 UTC ]
Claire Adam has scooped the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award for her “outstanding” novel Golden Child (Faber). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-17 13:26:01 UTC ]
Pan Mac authors will embark on a 10-day virtual tour of high street bookshops this month with writers including Kate Mosse, Ann Cleeves and Prue Leith focusing on stores that mean something to them personally. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-17 12:59:10 UTC ]
A group of crime writers have collaborated to produce a short story collection during the UK lockdown, with all proceeds to go to NHS Charities Together. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-16 04:47:00 UTC ]
Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl series, will be the keynote speaker at the virtual Writers' Weekend, a four-day conference that will now be live streamed from 9th-12th July. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-15 23:55:15 UTC ]
He won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing unsafe conditions in meatpacking plants. He also wrote about hunger in America and the politics of the B-1 bomber. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-05-15 17:19:24 UTC ]
Serritella’s debut is a supernatural suspense tale set on the Ivy League campus. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-05-15 13:00:00 UTC ]
Debut and veteran novelists dive into the world of digital events amid the pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
Francophone African books are still very often published by French imprints, which can make them hard to get at home. But there is a growing push for changeWhen Cameroonian author Daniel Alain Nsegbe first saw his debut novel for sale in his home city of Douala, the price was so high “you would... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-05-14 09:59:14 UTC ]
Clean Prose, the London-based writers' co-working space, has announced it is to close as a result of "social distancing and the economic downturn" caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-11 07:15:50 UTC ]
The Literary Consultancy (TLC) has launched a digital platform to support writers and "safeguard their creativity". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-11 01:42:35 UTC ]
When Sylvia Beach, the New Jersey native who published Ulysses and opened Paris’ Shakespeare and Co. (“the most famous bookstore in the world”), died in 1962, Princeton University purchased and catalogued her papers. This trove of materials reveals, among other things, the reading preferences of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-05-08 19:46:30 UTC ]
Mother and son duo Amanda Prowse and Josiah Hartley have written The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-08 02:49:15 UTC ]
If you are currently living out your quarantine with an argumentative reader of fantasy and science fiction (possibly this person is your child, who knows), or if you aren’t but would like to be, you may get a kick out of this new video series from Penguin Random House, in which noted authors of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-05-07 14:08:45 UTC ]