A Final Farewell to Susan Kamil

On December 5, New York's trade publishing community packed the TimesCenter in Manhattan to hear a who's who of authors remember the highly regarded Random House publisher Susan Kamil, who died suddenly on September 8 at 69. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Octavia Butler has finally made the New York Times Best Seller list.

Why aren’t there more Science Fiction Black writers? There aren’t because there aren’t. What we don’t see, we assume can’t be. What a destructive assumption. —Octavia E. Butler, in Octavia E. Butler: Telling My Stories. A small good thing amid the unrelenting horror: This week, almost fifty... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-09-03 16:37:21 UTC ]
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JG Farrell's The Singapore Grip: new TV adaptation brings to life the final book by one of the UK's finest novelists

The writer was drowned at the age of 44, but he left three novels which have come to represent the decline of the British Empire. Continue reading at The Conversation

[ The Conversation | 2020-09-03 13:13:15 UTC ]
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OUP completes Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series with final release

Oxford University Press is publishing a new translation of Émile Zola’s Doctor Pascal, marking the first time that the English translation of his complete 20-book Les Rougon-Macquart series has been in print under one publisher. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-13 10:21:05 UTC ]
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Bookstat chart: Her Final Words shouts loud from the top

Brianna Labuskes' Her Final Words (Thomas & Mercer) has ended the three-week run of Ian Rankin's In a House of Lies (Orion) at the top of the Bookstat chart, as Kindle Unlimited titles flock into the top 10. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-04 04:21:26 UTC ]
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Trade challenged to reach out beyond white, middle-class 'Susans'

Long-held assumptions held by the trade about writers of colour must be challenged and a concerted effort made to reach new and diverse audiences, the industry heard tuning into a webinar launching the Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing report. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-23 18:37:47 UTC ]
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“The greatest sci-fi work of all time,” Foundation, finally has a YouTube trailer.

Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy has long been one of the great unadaptable science fiction works (read more on that here, along with a catalogue of Asimov’s awful serial harassment of women), but after 50 years, it has finally made it to screens. Starring noted tall man, Lee Pace (along with... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-06-23 14:28:10 UTC ]
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The Changing Ecosystem of Learning: PW Talks to Macmillan Learning GM Susan Winslow

Macmillan Learning general manager Susan Winslow explains how the textbook publishers of yesterday are transforming into cutting-edge digital platforms focused on student success, and what the Covid-19 crisis is revealing about the future of learning. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Susan Miller Interrogates 'Monogomy'

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Joe Biden finally addresses Tara Reade’s assault claim

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[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-05-01 12:33:41 UTC ]
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After Third Ruling, Is GSU E-Reserves Case Finally Nearing Conclusion?

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Finally working on that novel as you self-isolate? You're not alone

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[ The Guardian | 2020-03-26 16:00:31 UTC ]
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Brian De Palma and Susan Lehman deliver a silly, fun pastiche of hard-boiled crime fiction

“Are Snakes Necessary?” is exactly what you’d expect from a maestro of violent sexploitation. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-03-24 19:16:42 UTC ]
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‘The Mirror and the Light’ is a masterful finale to Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy

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[ The Washington Post | 2020-03-10 15:47:07 UTC ]
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Stanislaw Lem has finally gotten the translations his genius deserves

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[ The Washington Post | 2020-03-03 15:24:31 UTC ]
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BA reveals final round of grants from £50K diversity fund

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[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-02 23:40:45 UTC ]
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Susan Fowler’s Memoir Shows Uber Was an Even Worse Place to Work Than We Thought

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[ Slate | 2020-02-19 21:07:39 UTC ]
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Rudêncio Morais: Suturas do Amor and the Beautiful, Persistent Threads of Pessoa, by Susan Smith Nash

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[ World Literature Today | 2020-02-03 22:12:30 UTC ]
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Finally, a novel that captures the inanity of the Trump era. It isn’t pretty.

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[ The Washington Post | 2020-01-21 17:04:44 UTC ]
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Hiding the Body: My Susan Sontag Story, by John Weir

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[ World Literature Today | 2020-01-07 22:09:56 UTC ]
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