Paul and Stephen Kendrick on how King’s 1960 arrest influenced the presidential campaign. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
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National Book Award–winning author Sherman Alexie has been anonymously accused of sexual and general misconduct by members of the Native American writing community and others in the writing world. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Parragon, the U.K.-based publisher with a substantial U.S. office, announced Tuesday morning it may be forced to close before the end of the year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lionel Shriver has criticised the "politically correct censorship" in fiction and urged writers to take a stance against it. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jay Asher, David Díaz, and others have been accused of sexual harassment and abuse in the comments section of a January 'School Library Journal' article as the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators deals with an unfolding controversy. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Today in kinda niche but nevertheless instructive Twitter dustups, Pamela Paul, the editor of the New York Times book review, weighed in on two of the most divisive topics known to the internet: the service industry and grammar. Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2018-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bodley Head has pre-empted an investigation into Britain’s "radical new politics" by political journalist Jack Shenker. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Advocates for prison inmates remain concerned about restrictions on books available to prisoners—and for good reason. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William Collins will publish a debut memoir from an award-winning New York Times journalist who spent a decade covering Hillary Clinton’s pursuit of the US presidency. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pearson made "good progress" in 2017, slashing its net debt and projecting full-year profits to come in at the top end of its guidance. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Brontë expert has resigned in protest of the appointment of supermodel and activist Lily Cole as a patron for the Brontë Society. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The universities minister Jo Johnson has used a Boxing Day speech to highlight the issue of free speech and debate in universities. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ian Bartlett says the ruling that Uber is a transport company not a digital service could also change the way we view other digital giants; and Derek Wyatt suggests a post-Brexit Britain could create a Global Digital Foundation to address these issuesUber is officially a transport company and... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Subscribing to Seventeen magazine is a rite of passage for many young readers. Luckily, between today's ubiquitous variety of devices and platforms, the Hearst title has kept up with its evolving and savvy audience. Lately, that's meant not waiting for readers to come through their front door,... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Competition from smartphones and readers sticking to well-known writers means novelists are suffering. We must find ways better ways to enable themFinally it’s official: literary fiction is in crisis, and writers across the land are burning the midnight oil in their garrets, teaching or slogging... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Arts Council England’s report into the crisis in literary fiction should serve as a "wake up call" to the industry which needs to "radically rethink" how it presents the genre, the chief executive of Curtis Brown has warned. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New figures show that fewer UK writers earn enough to live on, as ACE blames falling sales of literary fiction on the recession and the rise of smartphonesThe image of the impoverished writer scratching out their masterwork in a freezing garret remains as true today as it was a century ago,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This is the second in a two-part series, providing an in-depth look at new and soon-to-open children’s bookstores. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Revolutionary style bible the Face deserves a more spirited historyIn September 1988, the style magazine the Face celebrated its 100th issue in triumphal fashion. There was an elaborate fold-out cover, essays by star writers such as Nick Kent and Julie Burchill and fashion stories by leading... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Now more than ever is the time for local news publishers to come to the aid of their country. It's not the lack of disclosures or disclaimers that has enabled unscrupulous actors to run wild in our political system--it's the free-wheeling approach to ad sales that's wreaking havoc. The market is... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three weeks after actress and comedian Charlyne Yi leveled sexual harassment charges against Giuseppe Castellano, an executive art director at Penguin Workshop, he has stepped down. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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