In Lippman’s 25th novel, a bedridden novelist is haunted by a woman who claims to be one of his characters. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-07-11 12:00:00 UTC ]
Analysis: if Bertelsmann, owner of Penguin Random House, buys US publisher, writers expect smaller deals and less choice for readersUK watchdog investigates Penguin owner’s Simon & Schuster takeoverJokes circulated online when, in 2013, Penguin and Random House merged: would the new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-03-22 23:24:23 UTC ]
CMA says it is considering whether Penguin Random House’s $2bn deal would lessen competitionAuthors fear the worst if Bertelsmann takes over Simon & SchusterThe UK competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Penguin Random House’s $2bn (£1.45bn) takeover of Simon & Schuster,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-03-22 09:00:30 UTC ]
Stephen King is publishing a new thriller with Hodder in August 2021, Billy Summers. The book–about a unique hitman, "a good guy in a bad job”–has been billed as “part war story, part love letter to small town America and the people who live there”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-31 23:25:01 UTC ]
At the end of 2020, sorting through my papers was a welcome reminder of the joys of a literary life Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-12-30 13:00:00 UTC ]
German media firm, already owner of the giant Penguin Random House, says acquisition of another major publisher is ‘approvable’ within monopoly rulesGerman media group Bertelsmann is set to acquire publisher Simon & Schuster for $2.17bn, less than a year after it took control of Penguin... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-11-25 16:55:32 UTC ]
A sale of the venerable publisher of Stephen King and Hillary Clinton could fetch $1.7 billion and rev up consolidation in book publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-11-17 08:28:15 UTC ]
From The New Yorker’s archive: short stories by Zadie Smith, Jennifer Egan, and Stephen King. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2020-08-30 10:00:00 UTC ]
From The New Yorker’s archive: short stories by Zadie Smith, Jennifer Egan, and Stephen King. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2020-08-16 10:00:00 UTC ]
Stephen King is publishing a new crime novel, Later, with Titan Books imprint Hard Case Crime in March 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-04 01:17:41 UTC ]
I May Destroy You skewers the weirdness of fandom and captures just how terrifying the publishing industry can beMichaela Coel’s critically acclaimed new TV series I May Destroy You (BBC One), the journey of a young woman uncovering and trying to deal with sexual trauma, is a show that I fall... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-07-11 07:00:06 UTC ]
Given monster stories by Mary Shelley, Stephen King and other masters of the macabre, Brooks is trying to fill some awfully big shoes here. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-06-09 15:19:49 UTC ]
The publisher of Stephen King, Judy Blume and Hillary Clinton doesn’t fit with the plans of its parent, ViacomCBS, which has placed a big bet on digital video. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-03-04 20:20:26 UTC ]
At the Audio Publishers Association's annual Audie Awards, which marked a quarter century this year, 'The Only Plane in the Sky' took home the top award and Stephen King received a lifetime achievement as host Mo Rocca and others saluted the progress of the audiobook form over the past 25 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle reviews Stephen King’s early non-fiction book about horror In 1999, the prolific author Stephen King had his own dance with death. One afternoon, he was walking on the shoulder of a road near his home in the US state […] The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2020-02-28 15:00:22 UTC ]
Jeanine Cummins' book has been lauded by Stephen King and Lauren Groff, but also lambasted as "problematic," "harmful" and "brownfacing." Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2020-01-21 23:31:13 UTC ]
From bestsellers to textbooks, stolen content is easily found on a 14-year-old hosting service operated by Microsoft’s social network. Mid-level writers are hurt the most. If you want to purchase a copy of The Institute, Stephen King’s latest novel about supernatural kids, you could find it at... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-01-15 13:00:52 UTC ]
Anyone but the people: from voter suppression to foreign intervention, Rebecca Solnit on the Republican party’s attacks on democracy. | Lit Hub Politics When Stephen King is your father, the world is full of monsters: Joe Hill on standing in the shadow (and light) of his famous dad. | Lit Hub... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-10-12 11:30:14 UTC ]
We had a new monster every night. I had this book I loved, Bring on the Bad Guys. It was a big, chunky paperback collection of comic-book stories, and as you might guess from the title, it wasn’t much concerned with heroes. It was instead an anthology of tales about the worst of the worst, […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-10-10 08:49:26 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has announced a new book by Stephen King, If It Bleeds, will be published in May 2020 featuring four brand new long stories. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-04 02:00:34 UTC ]