Showing Up Every Day: A Conversation with Dewaine Farria, by Matt Gallagher Interviews [email protected] Tue, 10/10/2023 - 15:38 Dewaine Farria belongs to the world. As a US Marine, he served in Jordan and Ukraine, and spent much of his... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-10-10 20:38:06 UTC ]
Malcolm Gladwell will release a “riveting” new book, The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War, this April with Allen Lane. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-16 05:36:44 UTC ]
A deep melancholy persists in the grim, breathtakingly beautiful debut novel by Chia-Chia Lin, who writes a story set in Alaska that tracks most closely Gavin, the school-age son of a family of four children and two parents with roots in Taiwan — “that junk island,” according to the father,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer Heather Marks has won this year’s Quarto Translations Diversity Award, run by the Golden Egg Academy, for her story set in both the 18th century and contemporary Bristol. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House is to take its interactive narrative gaming experience Black Crown offline at the end of this week, with creator Rob Sherman conceding that "the economics do not stand up". The online narrative gaming project, with Sherman's story set in the shady Widsith Institute,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Yates is reportedly in negotiations to direct 'Beasts,' a new story set in the world of 'Harry Potter.' Yates directed the well-received final four movies in the 'Potter' film series. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
This month Slate’s Audio Book Club hits the road for a live show at Town Hall Seattle. Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and special guest star Hugh Howey (Wool) discuss Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel of war and space aliens, Slaughterhouse-Five. The trio discuss Vonnegut’s deep depression, the way Billy... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape will publish a new novel by Thomas Pynchon this autumn, with the story set in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill and Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 21/07/2011 - 15:58 Waterstone's is reintroducing central buying for both new books and replenishment but m.d. James Daunt insisted store staff would be able to order the books they want, when they want. Managing director James... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]