Fiona Warnick talks to Sheila Heti about AI, writing for children, and the negotiation of public and private selves. | Lit Hub In Conversation How much can—or should—we know about our literary idols? Anna Funder on George Orwell and real life doublethink. | Lit Hub Memoir “I’d always figured... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-24 11:30:43 UTC ]
Books removed from Florida libraries include books by and about marginalized people as well as classic authors like George Orwell. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-11-15 12:15:00 UTC ]
If you’ve read only one book about the Spanish Civil War, chances are it’s either Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls or George Orwell’s memoir Homage to Catalonia. And if you’ve read only two, as to what they might be, I’d confidently push all my chips into the center of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-11-11 12:00:00 UTC ]
In honor of the 75th anniversary of George Orwell's iconic dystopian novel, we've rounded up some recent books that reflect the legacy of '1984' with their stark visions of the future and sharp critiques of our social and political moment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
Two writers discuss the literary forebears who directly inspired their latest novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
Every author wants to write a book like David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. Two decades after it first hit the shelves, the author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow celebrates its daring, dazzling appealPity the writer who believes they have written the next Cloud Atlas! A literary agent once... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-04-06 10:00:31 UTC ]
In this homage to George Orwell’s 'Animal Farm', the cocreators of 'Animal Castle' have expanded Orwell’s allegorical attack on totalitarian societies to include an embrace of civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, and the concept of love, as weapons to fight and beat social oppression. An... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
The following is excerpted from 1984: The Graphic Novel _______________________________________________ 1984: The Graphic Novel by George Orwell, adapted and illustrated by Fido Nesti. Copyright © 2021 by the Estate of Sonia Brownwell Orwell and Frederico Carvalhaes Nesti. Reprinted by... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-08-26 08:55:09 UTC ]
Interviews Emilio Fraia’s Sevastopol, out this summer from New Directions, is the sort of book that beguiles and dazzles in equal measure. Consisting of three disparate stories—of a mountain climber attempting to scale Mt. Everest, a mysterious loner... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-08-09 20:31:30 UTC ]
Simon Akam says Penguin Random House cancelled his book about the British army, The Changing of the Guard, and demanded back his advance after he refused to let the MoD vet itIn the summer of 2015, journalist Simon Akam was thrilled when Penguin Random House (PRH) imprint William Heinemann won a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-07-23 13:00:54 UTC ]
JK Rowling is. John le Carré isn’t. Albert Camus and F. Scott Fitzgerald are. George Orwell might or might not be. I’m talking about registered trade marks. Authors make copyright works, and their agents’ job is to maximise revenues from those intangibles. End of story, right? Kind of. A... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-26 12:24:33 UTC ]
Renard Press is launching a new series of the essays of George Orwell, focusing on politics, literature and language. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-08 14:27:21 UTC ]
George Orwell will have his words brought to life in new audiobooks from Penguin Random House, including his two best-known works: Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-05 03:37:49 UTC ]
Much of the author’s work may have fallen into public ownership in the UK, but there are more restrictions on its use remaining than you might expect, explains his biographerGeorge Orwell died at University College Hospital, London, on 21 January 1950 at the early age of 46. This means that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-01-01 11:00:08 UTC ]
The very first text Chris Mould illustrated as a student was George Orwell’s allegorical novel Animal Farm. The young Mould was given Orwell’s text at art school and told to come up with 10 or so drawings. It seems fitting, then, that 30-odd years later Mould was commissioned by Faber to come up... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-18 08:57:55 UTC ]
Constable has signed a fresh biography of George Orwell by D J Taylor, whose earlier book on the writer, published in 2003, won the Whitbread Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-04 09:52:59 UTC ]
Dorian Lynskey’s ‘The Ministry of Truth’ looks at the cultural impact of George Orwell’s famous novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-06-21 13:39:00 UTC ]
A proprietor’s journey from ‘amenable and friendly’ to ‘intolerant and antisocial’According to George Orwell, “there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops”. Bythell’s diary suggests that not much has changed, in this... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
George Orwell’s 1984 (Signet) has rocketed straight to the top of the US chart, in a somewhat turbulent week for the Land of the Free. The edition, published in 1950, sold 25,884 copies—a 479% increase on the previous seven day period and is now overall number one in the US book chart. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
George Orwell's dystopian classic '1984' is the #1 book in the country following the first week and a half of the presidency of Donald J. Trump. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]