A prosecutor’s fight against sex trafficking — and Backpage.com

Maggy Krell recounts her efforts to shut down the site, notorious for erotic and illicit classified ads. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

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Waterstones still 'committed' to Oxfam following sex scandal

Waterstones has said it remains a committed partner of Oxfam "at this point" following accusations of sexual misconduct concerning some members of the charity's Haiti staff in the aftermath of the country's earthquake in 2011. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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WI13: ‘Sex and the City’ Glam Comes to Winter Institute

The premier educational conference of the American Booksellers Association, which is being held this week in Memphis, got a dose of star power when actress and producer Sarah Jessica Parker gave the conference's opening keynote on Tuesday. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Armed With Faith: A Civil Rights Heroine Fights New Battles

In her new memoir, Melba Pattillo Beals, one of the Little Rock Nine, the black teenagers who broke the color line in segregated 1950s Arkansas, says God will always be there to lift people out of pain, disillusionment and despair. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers should fight censorship 'whenever they get the chance' says Beevor

Publishers should be fighting censorship "whenever they get the chance", Sir Antony Beevor has said, while observing that "more and more" attempts are being made by governments to "rewrite history". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Sex Party' or 'Nerds on a Couch?' A Night in Silicon Valley

Party described in Vanity Fair article and forthcoming book was at a home of Steve Jurvetson, a founding partner of venture-capital firm DFJ who left the firm in November. Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2018-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Prominent VC named as host of 'sex party' in explosive 'Brotopia' book

Venture investor Steve Jurvetson and the firm he co-founded are reportedly named as hosts of a "sex party" in an upcoming book by Bloomberg TV anchor Emily Chang. An explosive excerpt from her book, "Brotopia," published last week by Vanity Fair detailed drug and swinging sex parties hosted and... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal

[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2018-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Death of magazines 'overplayed' as titles bid to fight Facebook effect

Despite a torrid year, leading media agency says UK consumer magazine market has been ‘seriously undervalued’ by marketersThe death of magazines has been overplayed, according to a leading media agency, despite a torrid year that has featured the British title Glamour ending its monthly print... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-12-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kenilworth Books takes fight for libraries to Theresa May

Staff at independent bookshop Kenilworth Books have written an open letter to Theresa May lamenting the "deep injustice" of libraries cuts, which they say are threatening the nation’s literacy. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bollen wins Bad Sex in Fiction award

Christopher Bollen has won the 25th annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award for The Destroyers (Harper). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sir Vince Cable 'too good' for Bad Sex book award

The Liberal Democrat leader's novel Open Arms isn't shortlisted for the prize, despite "many" nominations. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2017-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Justice Department sues to block AT&T's purchase of Time Warner, which vows a fight

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued to block AT&T’s proposed $85-billion purchase of Time Warner Inc. — one of the largest media mergers in American history — arguing that a bulked-up AT&T would stifle competition and lead to higher prices for consumers. “This merger would greatly... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jane Juska, who wrote about late-in-life sex, dies at 84

Jane Juska, whose chronicle of searching for sex as a woman in her 60s became a best-selling memoir and later a stage show, has died. She was 84. Juska died Tuesday at a Chico care facility after a long illness, her son, Andy Juska, told the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday. She was a retired... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comics Shops Fight Bookstores In the Race to Sell Graphic Novels

At a time when American comics and graphic novels have never been more popular, the way these works are purchased is being transformed by a new wave of consumers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unseen letters show Hemingway’s fight against celebrity and ‘bullshit publicity’

‘My private life being an open sewer, I am sometimes a little touchy,’ wrote the authorHis prose matched his macho lifestyle, from wartime adventures to big-game hunting, boozing and bullfighting. But Ernest Hemingway was extremely sensitive about his private life, which he described as “an open... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Official Sex Pistols diary to Octopus

Cassell Illustrated, part of the Octopus Publishing Group, has acquired the official, inside story of the Sex Pistols' "whirlwind year" of 1977, as told by the Sex Pistols and their collaborators. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Charlie Higson to pen Fighting Fantasy book

Charlie Higson is writing a new book in the bestselling Fighting Fantasy gamebook series for Scholastic UK, set for an April 2018 release. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comedy, and sex, in the cancer ward? 'A Funny Thing Happened' goes there with glee

Karla, a struggling stand-up comic, is furiously jotting in her notebook while trying out different versions of a new routine. “I’ve been single for so long, I’ve started having sex dreams about my vibrator.” Would wet dreams, she wonders, be funnier? Wait, women don’t even have wet dreams. If... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gamegate Target Zoe Quinn Can Teach Us How to Fight Online Hate

Gamergate's first target has a new book that's part memoir, part manifesto, and all about combating online harassment. Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2017-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indian writer wins visa fight after Home Office U-turn

An Indian writer who was refused a visa for a poetry project has had the decision overturned by the Home Office weeks after Tiny Owl illustrator Ehsan Abdollahi won his visa fight. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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B&NE Steps Up Fight Against Counterfeiters

Barnes & Noble Education has agreed to implement a program developed earlier this year in an attempt to stop the spread of counterfeit of print textbooks. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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