Books written by women or men from the perspective of a female character are less likely to win major literary awards than books written from a male perspective or about men, research by author Nicola Griffith has found. Griffith analysed the last 15 years of winners for six fiction awards –... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The book 'The Emperor of All Maladies' won the Pulitzer Prize for literature in the nonfiction category. The TV adaptation of the award-winning book debuts on PBS on March 31. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week, Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner asked the Columbia Journalism School to review Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia. As it became clear that the story’s central incident—a gang rape of a freshman at a fraternity—did not happen as Rolling Stone... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
“Now in my 80s, in my second or third childhood, I’ve come back to the noir influence,” says Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist, author, and award-winning screenwriter and playwright, about Kill My Mother, an original graphic novel (Norton/Liveright, Aug.). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two members of Philadelphia Inquirer owner Interstate General Media LLC sued the company and the newspaper’s publisher over the ouster of editor-in-chief Bill Marimow. Marimow, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was fired Oct. 7 w ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
“Always be closing,” the oft-quoted line from David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play Glengarry Glen Ross, could serve as the mantra at today’s big houses. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
After winning the highest honor in the literary world, the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winners have seen sales increases – but so far the numbers are pretty tiny. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Pulitzer Prize for fiction has been won by author Adam Johnson for his novel based in North Korea, The Orphan Master's Son. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Arianna's right hand is out at The Huffington Post. Huffington announced today via company memo that Tim O'Brien, executive editor of the online publisher, will be leaving the site to work on the second of his five-part book deal. Per the memo, Huffington noted, "In the next few days, Tim's... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
One of the country's top publishers has turned to a man from the editorial side to run its business. Michael Pietsch, the editor of Keith Richards' Life, David Foster Wallace's The Pale King and the many novels of James Patterson, has been named CEO of Hachette Book Group. Mr. Pietsch has headed... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thirteen novels, including "The Good Earth,'' which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932, will be published in ebook format by Open Road Integrated Media. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The late Manning Marable won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for history, honored for a Malcolm X book. But no Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The late Manning Marable has won the Pulitzer Prize for history, honoured for a Malcolm X book he worked on for decades, but did not live to see published. For the first time in 35 years, no fiction prize was given. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
As publisher of The Lexington Herald-Leader, Creed Black supported an investigation of the University of Kentucky basketball team that led to the first Pulitzer Prize for the paper. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2011-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]