The submissions period for the second cycle of the still-new German Nonfiction Prize runs to November 19, as seven jurors are named. The post German Nonfiction Book Prize Names Its 2022 Jury appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-11-02 12:10:32 UTC ]
“The Taking of Jemima Boone,” the first nonfiction book by the novelist Matthew Pearl, recounts a legendary abduction case that complicates our view of relations between settlers and Native Americans during westward expansion. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-10-05 16:57:40 UTC ]
“Nomadland,” a film inspired by and featuring non-actor sources from journalist Jessica Bruder’s 2017 nonfiction book of the same name, just swept the Academy Awards. Both book and film explore the life of America’s “new nomads,” who live without traditional housing since losing their savings in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-05-07 17:41:46 UTC ]
Interviews Ellen Adams is a singer-songwriter and prose writer who splits her time between Seattle and Montreal. She has been a Lambda Literary Fellow for nonfiction and a Fulbright Fellow researching politically engaged contemporary art in Thailand.... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-03-29 13:25:33 UTC ]
Interviews Born and brought up in Assam, Kaushik Barua is an emerging Indian English author. He completed his degree in economics from St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, and then studied political economy at the London School of Economics. In his day... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-03-15 20:37:05 UTC ]
In this Read Harder Challenge post, we're recommending books for the task asking you to read nonfiction books about anti-racism. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-12-09 11:31:00 UTC ]
Books published in the Trump era reveal the battles over, and changes in, the American presidency today. In this special episode of “Presidential,” Post nonfiction book critic Carlos Lozada shares what he’s learned from reading more than 150 of them. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-10-23 10:00:00 UTC ]
Figure out which type you fall into and find a fiction and a nonfiction book recommendation for each Enneagram type. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-09-15 10:34:00 UTC ]
Among the big books sold this week are a nonfiction book from former National Security Council member Fiona Hill, a nonfiction book on skyscrapers, and a book about how sports is helping the country to transform its understanding of sex and gender. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
Warner Bros. film JUST MERCY, based on the nonfiction book by Bryan Stevenson, is available for free streaming in the month of June. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-06-03 13:32:47 UTC ]
Among the big deals this week are a new book by rapper Gucci Mane, a memoir of addiction and recovery by a politician and her son, and a nonfiction book by the cocreator of Showtime’s Billions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
The author threatened to ditch his British publisher, and likened him to a vicar, after his ‘Anglo-Saxon’ expressions were cleaned upThe hard-drinking, hot-tempered American writer Ernest Hemingway was furious when he discovered that the language for the English edition of his latest book had... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-03-29 07:05:47 UTC ]
Max Czollek, whose first nonfiction book is a rebuttal to calls for integration, believes that his country must face its history with more honesty — and that those who are singled out shouldn’t try to fit in. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-01-16 10:00:17 UTC ]
Read Harder Challenge participants, and anyone looking for broader reading horizons, we've got your recommendations for the YA nonfiction book task. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-12-04 11:32:54 UTC ]
Don Brown’s graphic nonfiction book “Fever Year” skillfully brings young readers directly into the (gruesome) action. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-10-07 16:04:59 UTC ]
Harmony picks up a nonfiction book on nonmonogamy by a Bustle editor for six figs, Knopf buys a novel by Jim Carrey, and Doubleday takes a title from Bill Gates on climate change in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
Creative nonfiction is having a moment, and I am here for all the new nonfiction book releases I can stack onto my nightstand. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-10-03 10:39:29 UTC ]
Megan Rapinoe, captain of the US women’s soccer team and everyone’s summer crush, now has a book deal! She’ll be writing an adult nonfiction book for Penguin, which “will include anecdotes from Ms. Rapinoe’s life,” as well as a middle-grade book for Razorbill, speaking to “the power young people... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-25 14:47:19 UTC ]
On the lessons one reader gained through reading Toni Morrison's new nonfiction book collecting her essays, speeches, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-07-10 10:33:01 UTC ]
Among the notable book-to-film deals this week is a nonfiction book on women's suffrage which sold to Amblin TV with Hillary Clinton attached as a producer, and Netflix's purchase of a memoir by the founder of Nike. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]