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Calling all comrades! Your favorite leftie publishing house needs a kickstart.

Attention, bookworms and fellow travelers! Verso, the beloved left wing publishing house and hub for radical thought, is in big financial trouble. The company’s UK distributor, Marston Book Publishing, filed for bankruptcy this July—and left behind some unsettled debts. Verso explained how those... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-25 18:14:54 UTC ]
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Verso and other publishers are offering free ebooks in solidarity with pro-Palestine campus protests.

As students organize and resist to demand action and justice for Palestinians, publishers are offering free books on Palestine, protest, and more, in solidarity. Verso has seven ebooks available for download, including a case for sanctions against Israel, a collection on 2011’s Occupy movement,... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-04-26 15:56:47 UTC ]
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Exclusive Cover Reveal of “If Only” by Vigdis Hjorth

Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover for the novel If Only by Vigdis Hjorth, which will be published by Verso Books on September 3, 2024. Preorder the book here. “A relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children. It is winter. January and... Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

[ Electric Literature | 2024-01-01 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers launch initiative to highlight Palestinian authors and history

The campaign by Publishers for Palestine will offer more than 30 free ebooks of poetry, fiction and nonfiction as ‘an act of solidarity’A group of publishers has launched a week-long initiative encouraging people to read books by Palestinian authors and about Palestinian history by offering free... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2023-11-29 17:20:38 UTC ]
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a Brisk Thriller and a Passionate Argument for Revolution

The central thesis of Andreas Malm’s manifesto How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire is that peaceful protests have proven themselves ineffective in stopping the widespread annihilation of the earth and its inhabitants by climate change. The book, published by Verso... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-04-07 08:53:26 UTC ]
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“People Wanted Stories About How Hard It Was to Be a Woman.” Marlowe Granados on Resisting Market Trends

Marlowe Granados is the guest. Her debut novel, Happy Hour, is out now from Verso Books. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts!  From the episode: Marlowe Granados: I think that you have to wait a little bit for the correct timing. That was my main gripe with the... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-11-09 09:50:34 UTC ]
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Verso lands human rights lawyer's 'revelatory' memoir

Verso has acquired Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests and the Pursuit of Freedom, a memoir by Derecka Purnell.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-05 20:05:47 UTC ]
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21 Books for the 21st Century: The Longlist, by The Editors of WLT

Lit Lists Earlier this spring, the editors of WLT invited twenty-one writers to nominate one book, published since the year 2000, that has had a major influence on their own work, along with a brief statement explaining their choice. Now it’s your turn... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2021-03-31 20:04:23 UTC ]
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Verso Books just announced a union—and they have advice for other publishing workers.

There’s a new union on the block: Verso Books announced today that its staff has organized to join the Washington-Baltimore News Guild (WBNG), a unit of the NewsGuild and the Communications Workers of America. Management voluntarily recognized the union last week, according to a statement from... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-11-30 20:48:23 UTC ]
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Verso snares Hwang Sok-Yong's imprisonment memoir

Verso is to publish the memoir of Korean novelist Hwang Sok-Yong, which details the years he spent in a Seoul Detention Centre.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-06 09:32:52 UTC ]
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Surviving the Discomfort: A Conversation with Claudia Rankine

CLAUDIA RANKINE’S Just Us: An American Conversation completes a vital trilogy that includes Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Rankine’s fluid artistry is complex and human. Twenty-one intimate, and collaborative, essays, in verso and recto format, swerve... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-09-21 12:30:23 UTC ]
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Izumi Suzuki, counterculture icon and SF legend, will finally be published in English in 2021.

Izumi Suzuki, whose works of science fiction have earned her a special place in Japanese counterculture, will soon make her English-language debut with a story collection whose synopsis sounds almost unbearably cool. Verso Books will publish Terminal Boredom, a short story collection, in April... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-09-04 16:26:09 UTC ]
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Verso scoops 'provocative analysis of female desire'

Verso is to publish Katherine Angel's latest work, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again, exploring female desire in the context of the Me Too era. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-23 15:54:18 UTC ]
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Two from Verso on Bread & Roses Award shortlist

Verso has two books on the shortlist for the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2020, administered by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers.   Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-30 00:47:19 UTC ]
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You can download these books about police violence for free right now.

If the widespread protests of unchecked, racist police violence have spurred you to read more about the deep-rooted and systemic problems with policing in this country, here’s an excellent place to start: Haymarket Books, University of Chicago Press, and Verso Books have each made an essential... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-06-03 14:35:35 UTC ]
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Weird, Funny, Delicious Books Wanted: A Conversation with Emma Ramadan, by Veronica Esposito

Interviews Veronica Esposito Emma Ramadan is a literary translator based in Providence, Rhode Island, where she is the co-owner of Riffraff, a bookstore and bar. She is the recipient of an NEA Translation Fellowship, a PEN/Heim grant, and a Fulbright... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2020-05-18 18:20:27 UTC ]
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More Norwegian Family Scandal: A Conversation with Vigdis Hjorth

PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH for the first time by Verso Books, Will and Testament is the latest novel from Vigdis Hjorth, one of Norway’s leading writers. Told from the perspective of Bergljot, a theater critic estranged from her parents and siblings, the narrative is centered around the inheritance of... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-11-21 20:00:35 UTC ]
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2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature Longlist Announced

News and Events The Editors of WLT Today the New Yorker announced the longlist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. With such a wealth of talent on display, we don’t envy the judges’ task. To aid you, the reader, in appreciating the... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2019-09-17 16:53:18 UTC ]
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What the Left Can Learn from the Right About Winning Elections

IN 1988, Verso Books published a collection of writings by cultural theorist Stuart Hall titled The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left. Hall’s work examined the socio-economic conditions and discursive tactics that led to the ascendance of Margaret Thatcher as an... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-08-13 17:00:24 UTC ]
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Facebook wants some regulation—at least on brand safety

Facebook welcomes a little regulation, at least if it helps end its brand-safety problems. “We want regulation in the areas of brand safety and content moderation,” said Carolyn Everson, vice president of global marketing solutions, speaking on Tuesday at an event kicking off the Global... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

[ Advertising Age | 2019-06-19 11:21:19 UTC ]
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