It’s hard to believe that fashion designer Zac Posen, a judge on "Project Runway" and Brooks Brothers creative director, has the time to whip up panko-crusted soft-shell crab and orange blossom bundt cake in his New York apartment, but he does. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
At age nine, after being taught how to play Monopoly, Robert Kiyosaki knew he was going to be wealthy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Brooke Gladstone, the cohost (with Bob Garfield) of the popular podcast "On the Media," began working on her new book, "The Trouble with Reality" (Workman), her brief was to “provide a consolation” to readers troubled by the recent presidential election. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
A combination of bookstore attrition and its own startup efforts will make Amazon Books the fifth largest general bookstore chain in the U.S. based on the number of outlets. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The furthest thing from Ben Blum’s mind in August 2006 was that his 19-year-old cousin Alex Blum, whom Ben was very close to and admired for his loyalty, his intelligence, and respectful nature, would become an armed bank robber in Tacoma, Wash. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 1996, David Farnsworth came to the U.S. from the U.K. to head the sales department of the family-owned Combined Publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
BookExpo will honor PEN America with its seventh annual Industry Ambassador Award, which recognizes major innovators and creative leaders that make the book industry better, on June 1. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Theatre Communications Group, in New York, is dedicated to strengthening and nurturing professional nonprofit theater in the U.S. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Comedian Whitney Cummings hosted novelists Stephen King and his son Owen, Claire Messud, Jesmyn Ward, astronaut Scott Kelly, and former White House photographer Pete Souza at the BookExpo Adult Author's Breakfast. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jesmyn Ward is a BookExpo veteran, who has attended the show multiple times, in connection with her bestselling titles "Salvage the Bones" (Bloomsbury), which won the 2011 National Book Award, and her memoir,"Men We Reaped" (Bloomsbury, 2013). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
“Nigerian society has changed quite a bit [over the past 30 years], and more and more people are having conversations about being a woman in Nigeria,” says Ayobami Adebayo, who explores the subject in her debut novel, "Stay with Me" (Knopf, Aug.). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
“When I write,” says Nicole Krauss, “I’m simply trying to make something I hope at some point will be whole enough to meet readers.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
One of the founders of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Carla Poesio, has died. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Debuts and the latest releases from a number of heavy hitters—including John Grisham, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Jennifer Egan—were among the books being touted as the "big ones" of this year's BookExpo. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
“There’s a renaissance for spoken-word content and our media diet is expanding, but as the landscape becomes more saturated, audiobooks face greater and greater discoverability challenges,” said Tom Webster, v-p, strategy and marketing, at Edison Research. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Organizers of the New York Rights Fair held a party last night to introduce the event to the American publishing community. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Five young adult book editors emphasized that the magic of books can change young people’s lives, even save the world, during this year’s YA book buzz panel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pete Souza, chief official White House photographer during the Obama presidency, culled more than 300 images from the nearly two million that he took of President Obama alone. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Good-bye, ibid.; hello, tweet. “3-D” or “3D”? “Fewer” or “less”? “Hi Mom” or “Hi, Mom”? If you’re a writer, editor, or simply an unreconstructed grammar nerd, there’s a good chance that at some point you’ve sought an answer to such questions in The Chicago Manual of Style. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Yellow Jacket, a middle-grade imprint slated to launch in summer 2018, will be helmed by current Little Bee and Sizzle Press publisher Sonali Fry and publish novels across genres. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]