After a remarkable half-century, two Twin Cities literary fixtures are focusing on their next 50 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
In honor of its 50th anniversary, the Washington state–based independent publisher has assembled a celebratory poetry anthology, ‘A House Called Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Poetry,’ that reintroduces milestone works by the press's many beloved poets. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
Apple's Watch Ultra, with its 2000-nit digital display and GPS capabilities, is a far cry from its Revolutionary War-era self-winding forebears. What sorts of wondrous body-mounted technologies might we see another hundred years hence? In his new book, The Skeptic's Guide to the Future, Dr.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-10-01 14:30:47 UTC ]
The Nigerian writer explains the origins of his latest book’s title, why novels are harder to write than plays, and the masochistic pull of political activism. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2021-11-02 22:37:29 UTC ]
The winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, Soyinka is coming out with his first novel in almost 50 years, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth. The post Fifty Years Later, a New Novel Emerges appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2021-06-24 09:59:45 UTC ]
Why aren’t there more Science Fiction Black writers? There aren’t because there aren’t. What we don’t see, we assume can’t be. What a destructive assumption. —Octavia E. Butler, in Octavia E. Butler: Telling My Stories. A small good thing amid the unrelenting horror: This week, almost fifty... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-03 16:37:21 UTC ]
Fifty years of Man Booker Prize for Fiction winners have been sorted down to a shortlist, and you can help crown the 'Golden' book. And some of this year's Audie Award winners are now playing on 'Beyond the Book.' The post Industry Notes: UK’s Golden Booker Voting Is Closing; AudioFile’s Whitten... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Booker Prize Foundation has revealed a new prize to mark its 50th anniversary which will put previous winners across five decades into contention for a one-off award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]