As most people reading this website are aware, the literary media has been in steady decline for the last two decades. So in December 2022, when USA Today announced it was putting its bestseller list “on hiatus”—internet parlance for “dead and gone forever”—most of us saw it as one more nail in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-06-28 14:05:30 UTC ]
Publisher who founded Virago Press began as a campaigning outsider who introduced UK readers to authors including Angela Carter and Margaret AtwoodCarmen Callil, the publisher and writer who championed female writers and transformed the canon of English literature, has died of leukemia in London... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-10-18 09:09:25 UTC ]
Electronic Arts is dipping back into college football with a limited-time mode in Madden NFL 22. The Campus Legends mode features ten school teams, including rosters filled with college football icons, as well as current and former NFL stars who are alumni of those squads.The event is available... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2021-08-31 17:25:25 UTC ]
Bernard Cornwell is bringing back his famous Richard Sharpe character after 15 years' absence, for a new adventure with HarperCollins this autumn. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-03 20:30:31 UTC ]
I’m terrified by Twitter. Facebook freaks me out. Every time I check my phone, the appalling facts from yesterday have devolved into today’s even more atrocious news. A climate-change denier may be in line to run the Environmental Protection Agency. A soft-drink lobbyist has the inside track for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Can the “family dinner” be revived? In a new cookbook, Corky, Lori, Dana, and Tracy Pollan (mother and sisters to Michael Pollan) set out to find an answer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]