Novelist Jacinda Townsend and writer James Bernard Short join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the movie American Fiction, which is based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett. Townsend and Short discuss how the film addresses race in the publishing industry via... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-02-08 09:08:33 UTC ]
Cultural Cross Sections Taylor Hickney In this profile, one of Marie-Helene Bertino’s students at the New School provides a personal glimpse of the author, whose new novel, Parakeet, was published June 2. On the evening of the National Book Awards,... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-06-04 19:40:55 UTC ]
Facebook, Google and Apple make the headlines, but there are many inspiring startups to dissipate the sense of techno-dreadA quarter of a century ago, the Canadian author Douglas Coupland published his third novel. Microserfs was the tale of a group of young Microsoft employees who decide to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
When two Simon & Schuster employees saw that a central character on the TV show 'Younger,' which is set in the world of New York book publishing, was releasing a novel, they wanted to make sure that book hit shelves in the real world. Now it will. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The best-selling author behind The Shining has returned to its central character, 36 years after the book was first published, for his latest novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]