Early in May 2017, the Transportation Security Administration initiated a pilot program at two domestic airports in which travelers were told to remove “paper products” — books, notebooks, and other documents— from carry-ons before X-ray screening. I know: at this point, when the news cycle seems... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Holliday Grainger has been confirmed as the narrator of Girl A (HarperCollins), the hotly tipped debut novel by Abigail Dean. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-13 06:22:44 UTC ]
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Today, Haruki Murakami celebrates his 72nd birthday—and we’re celebrating by diving into his recorded interviews. Murakami rarely gives interviews, but the ones he does are packed with insight into how he approaches the writing process. His memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running digs... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-01-12 18:27:48 UTC ]
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“The world will come between you,” writes Marcos Gonsalez in the prologue of his memoir Pedro’s Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land. The you here refers to both the author and his father, an immigrant from Mexico, captured in a photograph from the author’s childhood. “Hundreds of years of... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2021-01-12 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Continuum has acquired When America Stopped Being Great by BBC New York correspondent Nick Bryant. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-11 12:55:05 UTC ]
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“Black Buck” is alternately sly and sweet, a work of cultural criticism that laments and celebrates the power of money. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-04 11:03:33 UTC ]
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My brother David Larkin, who has died aged 84, was an art director in the book publishing industry who consistently pushed artists to go beyond their known capabilities – and often saw things in them that they did not themselves perceive.In the late 1960s, as art director at Granada Publishing,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-01-03 15:48:19 UTC ]
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Cofounded in 1998 by bestselling novelist Walter Mosley and founding director David Unger, the Publishing Certificate Program at the City College of New York is designed to take advantage of the school’s diverse student body to recruit and train a new generation of publishing professionals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Actor Johnny Flynn will narrate the audiobook of The Octopus Man by Jasper Gibson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 17:21:47 UTC ]
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Drinking sherry, bingeing Downton Abbey ... how authors keep up the spirit of the season, even when writing during heatwaves and a nightmarish ChristmasChristmas novels are not a new phenomenon. Charles Dickens sold out of his first print run of A Christmas Carol in days in December 1843, while... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-12-17 15:22:04 UTC ]
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David Constantine is to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, for his "humane" work spanning 11 collections. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 12:08:33 UTC ]
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This unusual graphic book documents the historic 1974 heavyweight title fight between former champ Muhammad Ali, out to regain the title stripped from him for refusing army service, and then-champion George Foreman, held in Zaire (now, the Republic of the Congo) that became known as “The Rumble... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The judging panel for the David Cohen Prize for Literature 2021, to be chaired by scholar Hermione Lee, has been unveiled. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-10 03:14:31 UTC ]
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The private equity firm Atlas Holdings has completed its purchase of LSC Communications, the country's largest book printer, which filed for bankruptcy in April. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
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In visceral essays, Michael Eric Dyson explains the unrest after George Floyd’s killing. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-04 13:00:00 UTC ]
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A new literary competition that celebrates science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) is offering the winner a worldwide publishing contract with Chicken House and a £10,000 royalty advance. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-30 10:30:48 UTC ]
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At the end of January this year, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko hosted US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Independence Palace, a glassy, corporate-looking building on Prospekte Pobeditelei (Winners Avenue) in central Minsk. Pompeo was the highest-ranking American official to... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-11-30 09:48:38 UTC ]
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JoAnn Wypijewski is a writer, editor, and journalist based in New York. From 1982 to 2000, she was an editor at The Nation magazine and co-editor, with Kevin Alexander Gray and Jeffrey St. Clair, of Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence (2014). She has written for CounterPunch,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-11-26 18:00:16 UTC ]
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When Benjamin Dean began to pursue his dream of writing fiction, he did not expect his début to be a novel for children. “I never really anticipated writing for children at that time,” he tells me, speaking on the phone from his London home. His middle-grade novel Me, My Dad and the End of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 14:11:48 UTC ]
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Sphere has announced that actor Allan Corduner will narrate the audiobook of Parting Words by 100-year-old human rights lawyer Benjamin Ferencz. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 03:14:54 UTC ]
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Retail and publishing expert David Roche is launching a mentoring and coaching service through his company David Roche Enterprises. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-25 09:19:55 UTC ]
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