With J.D. Vance as the 2024 Republican vice-presidential candidate and 'Hillbilly Elegy' back on the bestseller list, the plight of America's working class is once again the subject of intense media scrutiny. Here are eight recent books worth reading on the subject. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
Brooklyn State senator Zellnor Myrie is taking steps to challenge Mayor Eric Adams for re-election in 2025, further complicating Adams’ already uncertain hopes for a second term amid sagging approval ratings.Myrie, a 37-year-old progressive, confirmed in a statement on Wednesday that he is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-05-08 14:15:56 UTC ]
One of the great embarrassments of New York, the richest city in America, is how money can’t be found to keep public libraries open every single day.It is, truly, a matter of priorities. Other far-reaching, progressive policy proposals can come with enormous upfront costs — municipal or... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-04-29 15:50:14 UTC ]
In his fond memoir “Making It So,” the actor traces the path from the working class to the Shakespearean stage to “Star Trek” superstardom. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-10-03 09:00:17 UTC ]
“I grew up working class and money was a factor in everything we did,” says the poet and novelist, whose new book is the memoir “Crying in the Bathroom.” “That’s why I always write about the financial realities of my characters.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-07-07 09:00:11 UTC ]
I came into this business straight out of university having first worked in a bookshop, and following a week's work experience at Penguin Random House. I haven’t had a job outside of books since I was 20 but I'm not it seems what you'd call a ‘typical publishing person’. I'm Black and working... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-05-26 04:10:00 UTC ]
New indie publisher Cipher Press has announced its #newqueervoices submissions for UK writers identifying as trans, gender non-conforming, queer, working class and as writers of colour. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-06 21:07:42 UTC ]
Using terms such as BAME and PoC makes it harder to call out the lack of support and erasure of Black British voices (often working class and male) from festivals, prizes, agencies and organisations set up by non-Black PoC in the name of ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-09 05:56:06 UTC ]
From about 1890 to 1940, a half century of ultra-cheap editions of Jane Austen’s novels aimed explicitly at educating the working poor. Because these ill-printed and shabby versions of her stories never made it into the scholarly libraries that safeguard “important” editions, the hardscrabble... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-04 09:49:29 UTC ]
Noel Murphy discusses what more can be done to encourage and develop more working class readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The £580,000 Arts Council England funding will support new initiative to find and develop black and minority ethnic, disabled and LGBTQ writersA new literary agency, which aims to discover “the next generation of diverse writers” and “blow open the pipeline” for them, is being launched by the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Everyone is the poorer for publishers' widespread assumption that nobody wants to read about this part of societyI have spent the last 25 years selling and then publishing books, so I read with interest Melvyn Bragg's recent comments on working-class characters in fiction being stereotyped and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]