In his new book 'Exercise: Religion, The First Amendment, and the Making of America' (Oct 8, Oxford University Press). Bentley University history professor Chris Beneke explores the role the First Amendment has played in the shaping of American culture. Beneke spoke with PW about what worried... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-01 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 ]
The jury for the memoir category had raised concerns that the citizenship requirement was excluding a large part of American culture. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-09-12 21:31:43 UTC ]
Today, the Whiting Foundation announced the winners of its sixth annual Literary Magazine Prizes, honoring “seven print and digital magazines that are among the most distinctive and lively publications at the forefront of American culture.” This cycle, each winner will be granted $20,000 in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-09-12 12:00:56 UTC ]
'A major shift in English and American culture' toward translation is examined in a session at London Book Fair. The post At London Book Fair: Translation Markets’ Expansion, Challenges appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-04-20 02:16:29 UTC ]
The death of Stanley Crouch - author, jazz critic, columnist and novelist - at age 74 ended five decades of engrossing, often iconoclastic declarations on race, jazz, politics, film criticism, and American culture. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
PBS kicked off 'The Great American Read,' its forthcoming eight-episode documentary on reading in American Culture, by revealing the show’s list of America’s 100 best loved books in front of a lively crowd at the Morgan Library in Midtown Manhattan Friday morning. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Great American Read, a PBS-produced documentary series on reading in American culture that will debut in the spring, announced the authors, media celebrities and literary experts that are taking part in the program. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Twenty U.S.-based nonprofit poetry organizations have formed the Poetry Coalition, a coalition dedicated to promoting the value of poetry in American culture and communities. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
For Richard Jackson, owner of Square Books in Oxford, Miss., "To Kill a Mockingbird" is unquestionably one of the most “beloved stories in all of American culture.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Collected selfies from reality star hailed both as ‘Catcher in the Rye of the Instagram generation’ and ‘an anthology of what is wrong with American culture’Whether it is “a nail in the coffin for artistic photography” or “strangely liberating”, Kim Kardashian’s collection of hundreds of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Historian Grant Wacker feels he’s always known Billy Graham—he grew up in an evangelical household and attended a Billy Graham Crusade when he was very young. In his new book, Wacker assesses the impact of Billy Graham on American culture and the examines the legacy he leaves. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]