Anyone who saw the movie “Born on the Fourth of July” knows about Ron Kovic, played by Tom Cruise. Marine Sgt. Kovic was shot in Vietnam and paralyzed from the chest down. The gung-ho warrior-turned-war protester, who co-wrote the screenplay based on his memoir, has used a wheelchair for 49 years.... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A branch of The Works is to open in Edinburgh's Straiton Retail Park, coinciding with the reopening of bookshops across Scotland on 26th April, The Bookseller can report. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-22 06:49:48 UTC ]
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Before I write about my experiences of being disabled and working in publishing, I need to add a caveat. I love this industry. I had so much fun whilst working in it. It’s full of incredibly kind and hard-working and empathetic and passionate people. Most of my managers over the years went above... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-15 16:32:42 UTC ]
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Bonnier Books UK has acquired world rights for an “urgent and critical” look at Britain’s care home system by youth advisor Chris Wild. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-11 12:56:26 UTC ]
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Hannah, the protagonist of Amanda Craig's The Golden Rule, is a young single mother with a cruel, abusive ex-husband. A university graduate, she has left her job in advertising because of rampant sexual harassment, and is living a life of grinding, miserable poverty in London, working as a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-05 21:13:52 UTC ]
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When pandemic New York seemed at its most surreal, the park, with its abundant wildlife and familiar progression of the seasons, offered a vision of normal life to a book critic who wandered it daily. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-03-04 10:00:21 UTC ]
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Octopus imprint Endeavour has signed Love & Care by journalist Shaun Deeney, “a thought-provoking and often funny” account of a man becoming a carer for his mother just as he is hoping to find love one last time, post-divorce. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-01 14:57:29 UTC ]
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Half way through my interview with Kirsty Capes, she mentions the fact that most people can’t name books about children in care. I rack my brains before feebly coming out with: “Tracy Beaker ?”, which makes Capes, whose new adult novel Careless is about a teenage girl in foster care, laugh.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-26 07:46:19 UTC ]
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A psychology book by a Nobel Prize-winning author has become a must-read in front offices. It is changing the sport. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-02-24 12:00:07 UTC ]
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With its witty, ruthless skewering of the Indian middle classes, Rahul Raina’s roistering, whip-smart and deliciously fun Dehli-set crime caper, How to Kidnap the Rich, is the first great state-of-the-subcontinent novel of the 21st century. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-19 10:07:42 UTC ]
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Cast aside your assumptions about academic libraries. You'd be surprised what absolute gems of nerdery you can find in a college library. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-02-08 11:30:00 UTC ]
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There’s so much contemporary fiction released every day, it’s hard to keep track—and it’s hard to know which works will still be remembered in a year and which will slip into obscurity. Luckily, we have George Saunders to guide us. In an interview with Los Angeles Review of Books, Saunders was... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-02-05 16:37:34 UTC ]
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News Corp’s examples of cultural Marxism come up short. Plus: Alan Jones apology relegated to Sky News corrections pageDays after News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch warned of an “awful woke orthodoxy”, the Daily Telegraph demonstrated the boss’s point with a front-page story about political... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-02-04 22:44:51 UTC ]
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Turner Publishing Company has acquired Los Angeles-based Prospect Park Books. The purchase adds more than 100 titles to Turner's backlist. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Get to know the work and services of libraries for the visually impaired and print disabled people around the world. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-01-29 11:32:00 UTC ]
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The Reading Agency is relaunching its Reading Ahead literacy programme on 1st February with a new digital platform, and support from authors including Andy McNab, Adele Parks and Martina Cole. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-29 07:05:59 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan's sustainability imprint One Boat has triumphed in a nine-publisher auction for A Bigger Picture, billed as “part rousing manifesto, part poignant memoir” from Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-24 15:12:29 UTC ]
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My introduction to contemporary poets was a trial by fire. Here’s what I learned along the way. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-04 14:00:00 UTC ]
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Glass’s protagonist, like the author, is a nurse, veering between the emotional highs and enervating lows of emergency medicine. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-02 13:00:00 UTC ]
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The parts of J.D. Vance’s controversial memoir that didn’t make it into the movie. Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2020-11-24 17:07:44 UTC ]
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A round up of independent bookstore subscription services and care packages created to help these indies survive the pandemic. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-11-23 11:39:00 UTC ]
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