Now in his second term, the director of the Royal Spanish Academy is named Liber 2024's Most Outstanding Latin American Author. The post Santiago Muñoz Machado: Liber’s 2024 Top Latin American Author appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-08-30 21:42:11 UTC ]
From a library worker strike to the upcoming 'SALEM'S LOT adaptation, catch up on all the news relevant to libraries this week. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-08-30 16:00:00 UTC ]
A major lawsuit challenges Florida's book banning law, SPARE is finally coming out in paperback, and how the NYPL memed its way into saving more than 50 million bucks from being cut from its budget. All in today's top book news. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-08-29 16:33:25 UTC ]
The August 29 complaint over H.B. 1069 argues that the statute is vague and overbroad, and that it has led to the improper removal of hundreds of books from school and classroom libraries in the state. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
Bookshop gets into used books, guessing the 2024 NBA Long List for Fiction, and a couple of real bummer stories in today's book news. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-08-28 21:45:13 UTC ]
The Irish literary scene is thriving, which makes choosing just five other Irish writers likely to appeal to fans of Rooney a daunting task. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2024-08-22 11:49:16 UTC ]
The complaint accuses Anthropic of using a dataset dubbed “the Pile,” which allegedly includes a trove of pirated works, to develop its Claude AI product. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
As her latest Jackson Brodie thriller comes out, the award-winning author discusses cosy crime, sniffy critics, and how she investigated her own family’s secretsKate Atkinson has an idea for a fun side-hustle: at some point in the future, when she’s done with the second world war, and with her... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-08-10 08:00:37 UTC ]
When news broke that Sweet Valley High creator Francine Pascal had died, SVH fans and authors took to social media to express how much her super popular series had meant to them. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
This season’s crop of notable nonfiction debuts tackle the nature of life, the role of religion in American culture, Indigenous histories, and book bans Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
Her novels and short stories often explored the lives of willful women who loved men who were crass, unfaithful or already married. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-07-29 02:48:48 UTC ]
After early novels that won international acclaim but were banned at home, the Irish author had a prolific career lasting more than half a centuryThe Irish writer Edna O’Brien, who explored the complications and contradictions of women’s lives in a literary career lasting more than half a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-07-28 16:59:31 UTC ]
The author of humorous short stories finds emotional connections in tales that engage with tech. But he’s more interested in the ties between humans. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-07-24 09:04:44 UTC ]
Sable Yong’s debut book comes with some unusual marketing merchandise—a perfume to match. Sable Yong always wanted to make a perfume. She calls herself a “frag-head,” having previously written about fragrances for Allure and hosting the podcast Smell Ya Later with Tynan Sinks. Still, producing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2024-07-22 09:00:00 UTC ]
Miéville and Reeves reflect on two writers whose influence can be felt in the duo's new collaboration, 'The Book of Elsewhere.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
A partnership between Hello Sunshine, Reese's Book Club, and We Need Diverse Books is behind a spate of debut novels by underrepresented writers, including Chatham Greenfield's 'Time and Time Again.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
While reading a debut novel, oftentimes, there exists a momentary thrill of forgetting about craft. Instead, it can feel as if these writers grew up alongside their stories—in parallel lines and lives, naturally accumulating sentences with every inch they grew. There is a tender, literary... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-07-17 11:00:00 UTC ]
If you had a sudden urge to review the 2016 memoir for some reason, you might be out of luck right now. Yesterday, former president Donald Trump announced his running mate for the 2024 election: Senator JD Vance of Ohio. Vance, a onetime fierce critic of Trump, is a relative newcomer to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2024-07-16 12:25:00 UTC ]
Novelist Zoë Eisenberg and journalist-turned-author Rhaina Cohen have something in common: they both published books about extraordinarily intimate friendships. Their debut books published in February of this year with strikingly similar titles—Significant Others (Eisenberg) and The Other... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-07-12 08:55:38 UTC ]
With stories set in Bosnia, El Salvador, Iran, and Scotland, this fall’s notable fiction debuts have a distinctly international flavor. There’s also a New Orleans ghost story and a behind-the-scenes dive into the NFL. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-12 04:00:00 UTC ]