The Texas Book Festival returns to downtown Austin November 16-17, featuring more than 280 authors across some 220 sessions, including Matthew McConaughey and Malcolm Gladwell. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
Increasing number of black authors forced to self-publish or promote work on social media, says Selina BrownThe founder of a book festival celebrating black authors has said they are “forced” to pave their own way into the publishing world because of a lack of diversity within the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-10-02 16:06:33 UTC ]
“Through Multiculturalism We Become Better Humans”: A Conversation with Vonani Bila, by Ming Di Interviews [email protected] Thu, 06/13/2024 - 15:21 Vonani Bila with his mother and his son. Courtesy of Mark Waller, 2010.Vonani Bila (b. 1972) grew... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-06-13 20:21:36 UTC ]
The 12th edition of the Singapore Book Awards announces its shortlist, with the winner to be presented at the first Singapore Children’s Book Festival later this month. The post Singapore’s New Children’s Book Festival: 2024 Award Shortlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-06-05 19:26:13 UTC ]
If you’ve ever loved a book so much that you wanted to eat it, or driven your loved ones crazy with puns, The Edible Book Festival might be for you. The festival started in 2000 and has expanded into many, loosely affiliated annual events, all taking place around April 1st. Created by librarian... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-04-01 14:00:36 UTC ]
I was balancing a plate of honeydew in the green room of a book festival when I walked by a white man bemoaning the state of the publishing industry. The man wore a suit, and he spoke to a white woman; both of them looked to be in their 40s. As the man speared a […] The post I Don’t Have To... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-03-27 11:05:00 UTC ]
This year's Texas Book Festival, ran on Veteran's Day weekend, November 11 and 12, in Austin. The event was well attended, drawing tens of thousands of people for talks and panel discussions with more than 300 authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
Following the departure of cofounder and coproducer Carolyn Greer, this year Liz Koch took the festival's helm solo, spearheading New York City's largest free literary celebration as it returned to its pre-pandemic size. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Brooklyn Book Festival was held on October 1 in and around Brooklyn Borough Hall with more than 200 authors and 200 vendors participating. Our editors captured the day in photos. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
Starting this weekend, to coincide with Banned Books Week, The New Republic and their partners will be kicking off a month-long Banned Books Tour—sending a bookmobile around the country to share books, celebrate reading, and fight book banning. If you want to help, and you’ll be at the Brooklyn... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-09-29 14:00:14 UTC ]
A project of the Frankfurt Book Fair and Torino Book Fair, the first Aficionado Award goes to Lola Shoneyin and her Aké Arts and Book Festival The post Nigeria’s Aké Festival Wins First Aficionado Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-09-12 22:14:28 UTC ]
Readers respond to Baillie Gifford’s sponsorship of the Edinburgh book festival and threats by authors to boycott itRegarding your article (Authors threaten boycott of Edinburgh book festival over sponsors’ fossil fuel links, 11 August), collaboration and creativity are key to addressing the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-08-15 15:13:57 UTC ]
An open letter signed by more than 50 authors including Zadie Smith, Ali Smith and Katherine Rundell calls for investment firm Baillie Gifford to be dropped as main sponsor for 2024Authors including Zadie Smith, Ali Smith and Katherine Rundell have called on the Edinburgh International book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-08-11 12:45:25 UTC ]
Act I. “Bay area book fest!!! Starts at a party, ends at mcdonalds. My kind of weekend” A drizzly night didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of the crowd gathered in Berkeley to launch the ninth Bay Area Book Festival on the first Friday night in May. This year’s festival lineup: 250-plus authors,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-06-09 08:53:22 UTC ]
We seek inspiration, consolation – and the unvarnished truth. And we know that all the best stories are trueCaroline Knox is director of the Boswell book festivalMy love affair with biography began aged nine, when my subscription book club sent me a compendium of “true life” adventure stories.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-05-09 08:00:15 UTC ]
Writers B.J. Best, Andrew Ervin, and Brittney Morris join co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell live from the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri to discuss the narrative realms of video games and the evolving space they inhabit. The group reminisces about their first... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-04 08:53:59 UTC ]
Visual artist and poet José Faus, journalist C.J. Janovy, and writer Desideria Mesa, join host Whitney Terrell live from the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri, to discuss Kansas City’s literary legacy and its future. The group focuses on new book ban legislation, as well a white... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-27 08:53:54 UTC ]
Journalist and biographer Steve Paul and writer and Washington University professor Henry Schvey join host Whitney Terrell live from the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri, to discuss their books on novelist Evan S. Connell and Tennessee Williams, respectively. Each of the old masters... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-05-19 08:51:27 UTC ]
Fiction writers Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Sequoia Nagamatsu join hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell live from the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri, where they talk about pop culture in the literary sphere, the blurring of the line between literary and popular fiction,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-04-28 08:56:36 UTC ]
On a warm and sunny Sunday outside Borough Hall in Downtown Brooklyn, this year's Brooklyn Book Festival—back in person after a one-year hiatus due to the pandemic—returned to the borough and to the delight of publishers and the reading public alike. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-04 04:00:00 UTC ]