The announcement of this year's Booker Prize winner is being postponed for two days until 19th November to avoid clashing with the publication date of Barack Obama's memoirs. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-29 16:18:43 UTC ]
A year ago today, the Washington Post reported details about a whistleblower complaint filed from someone in the US intelligence community, vague word of which had been swirling below the news cycle for days: Trump had made a “troubling” promise to a foreign leader. The Post’s story accelerated... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-09-18 12:26:23 UTC ]
Former President Barack Obama's memoir A PROMISED LAND will be published on November 17, 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-09-17 16:53:16 UTC ]
President Obama announced Thursday that his forthcoming memoir, 'A Promised Land,' will take readers inside his White House. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-09-17 15:24:24 UTC ]
We’ve known for a while that Barack Obama would be coming out with a new memoir. Today his publisher confirmed that the book, A Promised Land, will be released soon after the November elections. The former president isn’t a stranger to the pen. His first memoir, Dreams From My Father: A Story of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-17 14:22:21 UTC ]
"A Promised Land," to be released Nov. 17, weighs in at a whopping 768 pages. Obama said it's "a fun and informative read." Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2020-09-17 12:30:43 UTC ]
The first volume of Barack Obama's long-anticipated presidential memoir, 'A Promised Land,' will be published globally in hardcover and digital formats on November 17, 2020, by Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
The first volume of Barack Obama's presidential memoirs, A Promised Land, will be published in November by Viking, it has been announced. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-17 00:02:39 UTC ]
Starting this month, Cosmopolitan has introduced a new paid membership program, Cosmo Unlocked, and with it, a metered paywall limiting non-members to four free articles each month. For $2 per month, members can receive unlimited access to the website, (which currently publishes about 30 new... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-07-14 15:50:42 UTC ]
Novelists rub shoulders with presidents, chefs, comedians and thriller megastars on longlist to define the title with the biggest impact on the book worldIt could be almost the setup for a joke, but a former president, a Booker winner and an erotic fiction superstar have walked on to the British... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-02-14 06:01:23 UTC ]
Cultural Cross Sections Shohreh Laici Photo of Tehran by Xiquinho Silva / Flickr A writer in Tehran incapable of entering the US under the Muslim travel ban encounters Michelle Obama’s Becoming in a beauty salon. Reading the Farsi translation, she... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-11-26 14:55:39 UTC ]
CIXIN LIU IS having a moment. The recent publication in English of his Three-Body Problem trilogy has been rightly hailed as a sea change for Chinese science fiction in translation, garnering myriad awards and receiving wide acclaim — including an endorsement from Barack Obama. The Wandering... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-10-29 17:00:45 UTC ]
Former President Barack Obama's reading list includes Toni Morrison, Colson Whitehead and Stephanie Land Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-08-16 18:20:44 UTC ]
Barack Obama has revealed his summer reading list, including titles from Toni Morrison, Colson Whitehead, Ted Chiang and Hilary Mantel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-15 11:40:17 UTC ]
It sets up the possibility that the former president's highly anticipated book will come out during the 2020 campaign. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2019-05-08 11:31:20 UTC ]
Little, Brown has acquired a “no-nonsense guide for women” by Barack Obama’s former right-hand woman Alyssa Mastromonaco. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barack Obama has revealed his favourite books of 2018—and his wife Michelle's memoir Becoming (Viking) has topped his list. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Of course, Michelle Obama’s Becoming was No. 1. Barack Obama may be out of the White House, but he is continuing a few traditions. The former president–and current most admired man in the U.S.– took to social media on Friday to share a few of his favorite things, including Black... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2018-12-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barack Obama, in an August 19 Facebook post, shared the books he’s been reading lately. Of those, 'An American Marriage' by Tayari Jones returns to our lists after an absence of a few months, as does Hans Rosling’s 'Factfulness.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Louisville Magazine and its website Louisville.com have been purchased by former U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, Matthew Barzun, for an undisclosed amount. The monthly publication, which is known in its community for shedding light on often-ignored neighborhoods and stories, will be under... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2018-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]