Discovered in his attic, the letters in “Love, Kurt” feel both very private and very important. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-12-03 13:00:00 UTC ]
Sci-fi anthology stalled since 1974 will be produced by executor, screenwriter J Michael Straczynski, adding stories by today’s big-name SF writersIt is the great white whale of science fiction: an anthology of stories by some of the genre’s greatest names, collected in the early 1970s by Harlan... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-11-16 14:38:59 UTC ]
This week, we highlight new books from Kurt Vonnegut, Melissa Weller, and Jane Haddam. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
Booker prize founder and publisher of some of the greats of 20th-century fictionTom Maschler, publisher and managing director of Jonathan Cape and the architect of the Booker prize for fiction, has died aged 87. A glamorous, perma-tanned figure with aquiline features and unruly hair, who dressed... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-10-16 17:49:02 UTC ]
Sci-fi preconceptions are challenged by little-known marvels from James Tiptree Jr, Angélica Gorodischer and othersThe border between science fiction and mainstream literature is more permeable than booksellers or publishers would have us think. Double Booker prize-winner Margaret Atwood’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-07-27 06:00:46 UTC ]
This week, Lorrie Moore discusses her life as a reader in By the Book. In 1985, Moore wrote for the Book Review about “Galápagos,” Kurt Vonnegut’s novel about a group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands because of an apocalypse. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-03-27 09:00:00 UTC ]
It's hard to overstate just how much Playboy changed American culture. Not just sexual culture -- as even some of those too young to remember tend to know implicitly -- but media culture, journalistic culture, literary culture, pop culture. That's worth keeping in mind given that Playboy... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Argentina's La Bestia publishing house brings previously untranslated top English titles, from authors such as Kurt Vonnegut, into Spanish translations. The post Argentina’s La Bestia Revives English Authors in Spanish appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Seven Stories is publishing a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's commencement speeches, edited and introduced by Vonnegut's longtime friend, Dan Wakefield. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon announced a Kindle World license for the books of Kurt Vonnegut, but not everyone thinks it's a great idea. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Vonnegut novella titled 'Basic Training,' about a young man visiting an eccentric relative, is available through Kindle only. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]