Maeve Binchy, Carl Sagan and Fredrik Backman have all professed their love in indelible ways. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-02-11 18:15:34 UTC ]
Los Angeles Review of Books editor Tom Lutz talks about "Born Slippy," his first novel, and why the city should have a more vibrant book publishing industry Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-09 15:00:03 UTC ]
The Carol Shields Prize is an effort to raise the visibility of women writers, in part with a sum that far exceeds many other book awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-07 10:00:17 UTC ]
'The Resisters,' Gish Jen's first novel in nine years, imagines a class-based dystopian United States. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-06 15:00:56 UTC ]
If you’ve been distracted lately by the presidential impeachment trial, you may have missed this tertiary symptom of the collapse of our democracy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-01-30 17:52:10 UTC ]
The following post has been updated with a response from the website squatter. There are traditional ways to get a book published—pitches, queries, agents, enduring months and years of soul-crushing work and silence—and then there’s blackmail. A writer is currently squatting on Patrick deWitt’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-30 16:55:01 UTC ]
The latest Oprah's Book Club pick by Jeanine Cummins, a white woman, has been widely criticized for stereotypical depictions of Mexicans and migration. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2020-01-29 21:08:32 UTC ]
ON HALLOWEEN 2016, former Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren tweeted, “Colleges should stop building vanity projects like huge libraries and billing students–full libraries are on our smartphones!” At the time, this statement sounded like garden-variety know-nothingism, ideological in the sense... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-01-28 13:30:27 UTC ]
Novelist Paulo Coelho told AP he's deleting the draft of the book he wrote with Bryant "because it didn’t make any sense to publish without him" and it “wouldn’t add anything relevant to him or his family." Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2020-01-27 23:42:14 UTC ]
Khulood Al Mu’alla Khulood Al Mu’alla was chosen this year as an honorary member of the Costa Rica Poetry Foundation and advisor to the International Poetry Festival of Costa Rica. She was honoured along with three poets as part of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Poets of... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-01-27 10:55:59 UTC ]
“I wished someone slightly browner than me would write it,” said Jeanine Cummins, the author of the highly anticipated book. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-01-22 12:23:18 UTC ]
Sixty years after the legendary African American author’s death in relative obscurity, a new collection of short fiction has arrived. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-01-16 13:00:00 UTC ]
From bestsellers to textbooks, stolen content is easily found on a 14-year-old hosting service operated by Microsoft’s social network. Mid-level writers are hurt the most. If you want to purchase a copy of The Institute, Stephen King’s latest novel about supernatural kids, you could find it at... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-01-15 13:00:52 UTC ]
When one book series door closes, another book series window opens. Check out new series from your favorite authors hitting shelves this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-01-14 11:33:37 UTC ]
He didn’t publish his first novel (which he illustrated himself) until he was 46. But his impact, as both a writer and an artist, has lasted. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-01-11 01:15:42 UTC ]
Investor J.D. Vance, author of the bestselling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” has launched a venture capital firm based in Cincinnati, according to multiple media reports. The Ohio native’s firm, Narya Capital, will invest in startups in the Raleigh, Durham and cities such as Salt Lake City,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-01-10 12:20:00 UTC ]
More than 130 adult and children’s authors and illustrators will be attending this year’s Winter Institute. Here are well-known and up-and-coming adult authors who will be signing at the conference. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-01-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
The authors of these 10 unflinching works of fiction offer nimble explorations of weighty issues: technology, precarious labor, incendiary political movements, government censorship, immigration, and femicide. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-01-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
More than 130 adult and children’s authors and illustrators will be attending this year’s Winter Institute. Here are authors coming this year who serve as proof that kids’ and YA books and authors continue to be key to the fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-01-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
Award-winning author Benjamin Myers and the Society of Authors (SoA) have criticised the pressure on writers to become “personalities” rather than be judged on their work as literary events increase. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-09 07:55:03 UTC ]