Ocean Vuong, bestselling author of "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous," joins the L.A. Times Book Club on Jan. 27. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-01-09 00:57:08 UTC ]
Charles Sprawson, author of celebrated swimming memoir Haunts of the Black Masseur (Vintage), has died. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-08 07:22:55 UTC ]
The Romance Writers of America has cancelled its annual RITA awards ceremony after hundreds of authors staged a boycott over an ongoing race row. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-07 22:15:04 UTC ]
Wurtzel, who had breast cancer, gave new breath to the memoir and was a new voice for those struggling with clinical depression and addiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2020-01-07 21:47:12 UTC ]
Author of bestselling memoir about clinical depression, which made her ‘a hashtag before there was Twitter’, died from metastatic breast cancer Elizabeth Wurtzel, journalist and author of bestselling memoir Prozac Nation, has died at the age of 52.Writer David Samuels, Wurtzel’s friend since... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-01-07 16:51:54 UTC ]
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation, has died at the age of 52, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Wurtzel’s 1994 memoir, in which she chronicled her experiences with drug use and depression, became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a 2001 film starring Christina Ricci.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-07 16:23:12 UTC ]
Publishing’s long established boys’ club in espionage fiction is having its cover blown by a new school led by Stella Rimington, Manda Scott and Charlotte PhilbyWhen Stella Rimington, the former director general of MI5 and spy author, wrote a new foreword last year to The Spy’s Bedside Book,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-01-07 09:00:54 UTC ]
Authors including Joanna Harris and Richard Flanagan are raising money for firefighters battling bushfires in Australia by offering signed books, illustrations, experiences and writers' services in a Twitter auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-06 19:12:57 UTC ]
Her new book, “Mr. Nobody,” is a delightfully twisty follow-up to her debut, “Something in the Water.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-01-02 16:00:00 UTC ]
On December 19, police in Jowhar, the capital of Hirshabelle state, raided the privately owned City FM broadcaster, briefly detained Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2019-12-23 23:00:13 UTC ]
US romance novelist Johanna Lindsey has passed away at the age of 67, it has been announced. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-23 19:54:52 UTC ]
Harrogate International Festivals has stood by its author exclusion clause, saying the exclusivity option only applies to 5% of its authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-23 01:32:38 UTC ]
THIS NOVEMBER, the PDX Book Festival took place in Portland, Oregon. The annual one-day event always includes some of the best contemporary writers, and many of the best contemporary writers are queer. (We are good artists.) This year, the festival included over 100 authors participating in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-12-22 20:00:19 UTC ]
In the 2010s, the publishing industry finally wrestled with its problems with diversity. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2019-12-22 13:00:22 UTC ]
Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival has expanded its author exclusion clause, banning special guest authors from appearing at other crime festivals, according to crime fiction event CrimeFest. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-20 06:06:55 UTC ]
Founded in 2012 to help freelance and unemployed journalists get published in newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals, the organization now wants to ensure that more books by such writers pass through the publishing pipeline. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
Clifford Thompson explores the dissonance surrounding race — and his own worldview. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-12-19 21:49:25 UTC ]
Tiffany Midge is the author of several books including the recent memoir Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s, a collection of prose that blends humor with social commentary and meditations on love and loss. Her poetry collection The Woman Who Married a Bear won Kenyon Review’s Earthworks Prize... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-12-19 12:00:00 UTC ]
My first baby is two years old, arms draped around my neck, cheek pressed into my chest. The scent of his musky head is inebriating. I read him a book called Baby Mickey’s Nap. He is convinced that if Mickey naps, he should too. We are still inchoate; neither of us know it, but we […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-19 09:47:36 UTC ]
Find a new author to follow or the first book your fave wrote with this list of debut novels by queer authors for the 2020 Read Harder Challenge. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-12-18 11:31:50 UTC ]