A pitcher who had modest success with the Yankees in the 1960s, Bouton revealed the seamier side of baseball in a book that was a best seller. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-07-11 02:47:37 UTC ]
Cultural Cross Sections Margaret Randall Children’s choir at the 2014 La Matanza Book Fair / Photo by Mauro Rico / Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación / Flickr When good engineers or scientists emigrate, they are able to continue their work. Novelists... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-07-10 21:07:28 UTC ]
Author Carmen Marcus has teamed up with the North Yorkshire bookshop Book Corner to offer aspiring working-class writers a free course on developing a strategy to write professionally. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-10 19:37:39 UTC ]
Tochi Onyebuchi’s young adult books, the duology Beasts Made of Night and Crown of Thunder, are fantasy novels with a Nigeria-influenced setting. His upcoming War Girls is set in a post-nuclear, post-climate change Nigeria of 2172. Riot Baby, his first novel for adults (also forthcoming), is a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-07-04 11:00:10 UTC ]
Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books, will reach 12,000 children via its Authors into Schools programme this year thanks to a new sponsor. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-01 02:41:22 UTC ]
The New York Times invited Asian-American authors to choose photos from our archives and write short young-adult fiction inspired by them. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-06-28 17:18:37 UTC ]
The Society of Authors is urging prime ministerial hopefuls Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt to support authors and the wider creative industries. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-26 23:32:54 UTC ]
Writers including Tara Guha, Adam Bennett-Lea and James Harris are amongst the winners of this year’s Northern Writers’ Awards, administered by New Writing North. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-26 19:17:21 UTC ]
Writers say a lack of funding and cuts to libraries mean children from disadvantaged backgrounds are missing out when it comes to school visits, after a new report shows that independent schools are far more likely to have welcomed an author in the past year than state schools. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-26 04:33:29 UTC ]
Children’s author Malaika Rose Stanley, known as Ros, has died after a long struggle with cancer, aged 65. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-25 22:55:20 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has signed a global two-book deal with American YA author Brigid Kemmerer. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-24 21:35:35 UTC ]
Springer Nature says this is the first survey 'dedicated to understanding the views of book authors on open access across all subjects and regions.' The post In Switzerland, Springer Nature Presents Author Survey on Open Access appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-06-24 05:30:10 UTC ]
The author of the steamy romances "Scruples" and "Princess Daisy" sold more than 85 million books worldwide. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2019-06-24 02:34:35 UTC ]
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' new documentary tells the story of a pioneering book editor, the first female African American senior editor at Random House, who brought to print such distinctive voices as Angela Davis, Gayle Jones and Muhammad Ali, as well as popular and influential collections... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-21 15:30:00 UTC ]
A number of writers have pulled out of Bradford festival in protest over funding from a government counter-extremism programme. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-21 10:06:03 UTC ]
Headline has snapped up a "powerful and provocative" novel about warring families from US author Therese Anne Fowler. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-20 04:24:39 UTC ]
The host of NPR's "Pop Culture Happy Hour" podcast has written her debut novel, the romantic comedy "Evvie Drake Starts Over." Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-06-19 22:05:02 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) has acquired a magical middle-grade fantasy series by debut author L D Lapinski. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-19 18:47:30 UTC ]
Only 5% of authors earn the income Virginia Woolf once argued was needed to work – today around £30,000. Two authors explain what it is like to have success, but no moneyFour years ago, Kerry Hudson had just won a prestigious French literary prize when one late payment left her unable to make... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-06-19 16:23:43 UTC ]
A member of the Muscogee Nation, Harjo has authored eight collections of poetry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-06-19 12:00:00 UTC ]