The U.S. division of Barcelona-based Grupo Planeta launched in 2021 and has grown quickly after striking gold both stateside and in Puerto Rico. Its VP and publisher tells us how. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
The U.S. division of Barcelona-based Grupo Planeta launched in 2021 and has grown quickly after striking gold both stateside and in Puerto Rico. Its VP and publisher tells us how. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
The City Council advanced but weakened Mayor Eric Adams’ City of Yes housing plan in a last-minute deal ratified on Thursday in two committee votes. As part of the agreement, the administration committed to spending $5 billion on affordable housing programs and infrastructure improvements.Many... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-11-21 19:06:35 UTC ]
With less than a day left to reach a deal on Mayor Eric Adams’ legacy-making City of Yes housing plan, complex negotiations were continuing Wednesday afternoon ahead of a key vote on Thursday.After months of public review and combative rhetoric from supporters and detractors, the plan to loosen... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-11-20 21:13:58 UTC ]
President-elect Donald Trump didn’t win New York City last week — he collected about 30% of the votes — but he made inroads in every borough and delivered the best presidential performance for a Republican in New York City since 1992. Polls show the economy and inflation were top of mind for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-11-08 19:06:41 UTC ]
Esmeralda Santiago’s book When I Was Puerto Rican debuted 30 years ago. This memoir introduced us to Negi (Santiago), a pre-teen with a captivating voice who chronicles her life in rural Puerto Rico in the 1950s. In Santiago’s own words, the memoir captures a world that no longer exists in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-08-28 11:00:00 UTC ]
Brooklyn State senator Zellnor Myrie is taking steps to challenge Mayor Eric Adams for re-election in 2025, further complicating Adams’ already uncertain hopes for a second term amid sagging approval ratings.Myrie, a 37-year-old progressive, confirmed in a statement on Wednesday that he is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-05-08 14:15:56 UTC ]
Eric Adams’ troubles and a potential primary challenge will be front-of-mind at this year’s Somos conference. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2023-11-06 20:42:43 UTC ]
Amazon’s Prime Day sale is happening once again on October 10 and 11, and as always, you’ll need to be a Prime member to partake of the deals. Prime is Amazon’s $139-per-year service that provides two-day shipping on all orders, as well as a ton of extras like the Kindle lending library... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2023-10-10 16:04:22 UTC ]
Princeton University Press and Editorial Planeta have started a new publishing partnership, simultaneously publishing select titles in English and Spanish. The first title, a history of Puerto Rico by historian Jorrell Meléndez-Badillo, publishes next April. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-06-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon’s Prime Day has returned to its usual time of the year—for 2022, it’ll take place on July 12 and July 13. As always, you’ll need to be a Prime member to partake of the deals. Prime is Amazon’s $139 per year service that provides two-day shipping on all orders, as well as a ton of extras... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2022-06-17 15:57:21 UTC ]
Interviews Photo of Lilliam Rivera by Lilith Ferreira / Las Fotos Project Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning author of children’s books who currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Rivera’s work has appeared in the New York Times,... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-12-02 22:19:21 UTC ]
Interviews Photo of Lilliam Rivera by Lilith Ferreira / Las Fotos Project Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning author of children’s books who currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Rivera’s work has appeared in the New York Times,... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-12-02 22:19:21 UTC ]
Marisel Vera’s historical novel revisits the 1899 hurricane that decimated the island. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-06-22 11:06:04 UTC ]
Over the years, Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald has made more than a few enemies. What some of his fans and supporters see as a crusade for truth and justice can strike others—including those who become the targets of his journalistic crusades—as needlessly hostile and potentially biased.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-01-22 12:45:02 UTC ]
JAQUIRA DÍAZ’S FIRST BOOK — the memoir Ordinary Girls, published by Algonquin Books on October 29 — lyrically chronicles a childhood and early adulthood marked by pain and chaos but also by joy and celebration. Díaz grew up, first, in one of Puerto Rico’s roughest neighborhoods and then amid... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-10-29 12:30:43 UTC ]
With little electricity in the months following two powerful hurricanes that caused widespread devastation, residents turned to books for solace. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new bookstore will replace closed Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis; Dallas's Deep Vellum looking for second storefront; Casa Norberto Libros to open soon in Puerto Rico; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than 150 academics, novelists, poets, scientists and other experts of language have descended on San Juan, Puerto Rico, this week to debate the future of Spanish — and whether words such as "selfie" will be admitted into the prestigious Diccionario de la Real Academia (Dictionary of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the ceremony for the 26th annual Lambda Literary Awards at Cooper Union’s Great Hall in New York City on June 2, Luis Negrón, a bookseller from Santurce, Puerto Rico, accepted the Gay General Fiction prize for his debut work, "Mundo Cruel." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]