Anyone who lived within 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) of the derailment can get up to $70,000 per household for property damage plus up to $25,000 per person for health problems. A federal judge on Wednesday approved a $600 million class-action settlement Wednesday that Norfolk Southern railroad... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2024-09-26 13:48:03 UTC ]
A woman who was mauled by dogs in 2019 has won her civil case against the dogs' owner and the Town of Potton. A Quebec Superior Court judge ordered the town and Alan Barnes to pay her nearly $460,000. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2024-05-17 08:00:00 UTC ]
From school libraries to big city libraries and small town ones, this is one Rioter's journey through the important libraries of her life. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-08-30 10:39:00 UTC ]
Michelle Gallen’s winning novel documents one Irish woman’s effort to organize the chaos swirling around her. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-12-02 14:00:00 UTC ]
Interviews Photo by Beowulf Sheehan / Courtesy of www.tayarijones.com Tayari Jones is a New York Times best-selling author from Atlanta, Georgia. Her most recent novel, An American Marriage, won the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Jones has been... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-10-22 14:14:35 UTC ]
This is Personal Space: The Memoir Show, with Sari Botton. On this episode, Botton speaks with Samantha Irby about her recently released essay collection, Wow, No Thank You. Irby discusses what it was like to move to a small town in the country after a lifetime of city living, how people wearing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-16 20:00:01 UTC ]
"Derry Girls" actor Nicola Coughlan will read the unabridged audiobook of Michelle Gallen’s début novel Big Girl, Small Town. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-08 09:51:32 UTC ]
I spent most of the year living in a small town in Oregon where I read a lot of student work and finished my MFA thesis. There I read my first but not last book by Octavia E. Butler, Kindred. I borrowed Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, from a graduate... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2019-12-14 16:00:42 UTC ]
Tope Folarin’s debut novel is all at once a search for identity, an immigrant story, and a bildungsroman. A Particular Kind of Black Man follows Tunde Akintola, a Nigerian American in a small town in Utah. Torn between the culture of his Nigerian parents, and the white Mormon culture of Utah,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-08-21 11:00:12 UTC ]
He was a leading magazine and book editor who found his own measure of fame with “Bettyville,” in which he also delved into growing up gay in a small town. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-07-22 22:58:23 UTC ]
In Weare, New Hampshire, a small town about 45 minutes from the state’s southern border with Massachusetts, the local newspaper Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2019-06-20 19:15:00 UTC ]
With its official grand opening on February 3, owner Jaime Harker’s dream has become a reality: the small town of Water Valley, Miss. has its first (and only) Queer/Feminist bookstore – Violet Valley Bookstore. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kristina Riggle was inspired to write "Vivian in Red" (Polis, Sept.), a multigenerational story with a family mystery, after her agent urged her to expand her horizons from the usual short time-line focus on a particular family or small town. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
On September 13, Scholastic Graphix releases cartoonist Raina Telgemeier’s new graphic novel, "Ghosts," a fictional work about two sisters and apparitions in a foggy, small town in Northern California. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus has bought a debut novel by Scholastic Books’ employee David Sanger. Editor Richard Arcus bought world rights, excluding the US, to All Their Minds in Tandem from Becky Thomas at Fox Mason. All Their Minds in Tandem takes place in New Georgetown, West Virginia, in October 1879, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
With the 2014 Winter Olympics here, many newsrooms are covering the games with their specific readers in mind. Maybe you’re a newspaper in a small town that has a local Olympian, or maybe you’re a niche sports site devoted to cove ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Peru, N.Y., a small town on Lake Champlain with a population of 6,400, might seem like an unlikely spot for a publisher to set up shop. But it didn't deter Lawrence Gooley and his partner, Jill McKee. Seven years ago they founded Bloated Toe Enterprises there, which includes Bloated Toe... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]