The final episode of Digiday’s Oral History of Ad Tech discusses how the digital media industry has moved faster than those charged to keep it in check, with Ana Milicevic of Sparrow Advisers sharing her insights. In this episode, she discusses how the blurred lines between data management... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2023-12-22 05:01:00 UTC ]
There are few better placed to critique and narrate the history of the digital media landscape, never mind the sub-sector of ad tech, than Ari Paparo. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2023-12-11 05:01:00 UTC ]
The New Press is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2022, following two of the best years in its history, with an oral history of its first decade. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
In 2014, book critic Dwight Garner published a lament in the New York Times for a seemingly forgotten literary masterpiece, the oral history All God’s Dangers. Published in 1974 by then-Harvard doctoral candidate Theodore Rosengarten, the autobiography was narrated by Nate Shaw, an illiterate... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-06-06 08:51:52 UTC ]
Marc Myers’s oral history looks at the explosion of rock concerts over four decades. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-12-01 12:00:00 UTC ]
Dawnie Walton’s novel is framed as an oral history about two musicians who got their start as an interracial duo in the 1970s. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-31 15:48:32 UTC ]
Electronic music publisher Velocity Press has revealed details of its 2021 list including an oral history of drum & bass records and its first novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-08 08:08:23 UTC ]
Ahead of the 20th National Book Festival, Laura Bush, Scott Turow, Michael Beschloss and others look back at the event’s storied beginning. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-09-15 12:00:00 UTC ]
I FIRST HEARD ABOUT Svetlana Alexievich from a friend in my writing group who was reading the Belarusian author’s Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (1990, trans. 1992), a book based on hundreds of interviews with those who lost their sons in Afghanistan. The title of the book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-09-02 12:30:01 UTC ]
Svetlana Alexievich trans. by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II (Random House) If God existed, or had an ear, she might listen the way Svetlana Alexievich does to the stories of her fellow ex-Soviets. This latest book from the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-02 08:49:53 UTC ]
Jake Lingwood’s new Octopus imprint Monoray has acquired the "phenomenal" first ever oral history of 9/11 as one of its first titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-20 02:24:43 UTC ]
Ebury Publishing has acquired the first official "Black Mirror" book, described as "an immersive, illustrated, oral history" from the show's creator Charlie Brooker and executive producer Annabel Jones. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
"Everyone who has seen 'The Social Network' knows the story of Facebook's founding," Adam Fisher writes at the start of "Sex, Beer, and Coding: Inside Facebook's Wild Early Days" in Wired. The article sets up an excerpt from "Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley," Fisher's... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2018-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Octopus imprint Cassell has acquired an oral history of the stories behind "groundbreaking and controversial" magazine covers, edited by former editorial director of Hearst Ian Birch. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thirty high-profile former members of Women in Publishing reflect on how the group empowered women in the industry in the 1970s and '80s in an oral history being made available at the British Library. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has acquired an oral history of the generation of Caribbean immigrants who came to Britain after the war. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week: an oral history of Bob Marley, plus an existential mystery in which a couple's neighbors strangely stop speaking to them. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pluto Press is to publish an oral history of the 2010 student protests entitled Student Revolt by Matt Myers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
PEN America has announced the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Oral History. The former, which comes with a $75,000 purse, will confer one of the biggest monetary awards in the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
A day after news broke of actor James Gandolfini's death, entertainment magazines are lining up content to commemorate The Sopranos star’s life and work. An Entertainment Weekly spokesperson said that the magazine would include a tribute to Gandolfini in its “All Time Greatest” double issue, on... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]