Audible presents live comedy at Edinburgh Fringe

Audible has curated a comedy stage at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival as part of its sponsorship of The Pleasance, one of the festival’s venues. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Why Does Thoreau Live On? A Few Famous Writers Offer Answers.

In “Now Comes Good Sailing,” an anthology gathered by Andrew Blauner, famous writers including Pico Iyer, Lauren Groff and Amor Towles meditate on Thoreau’s influence. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-10-14 09:00:04 UTC ]
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John le Carré left behind a novel, ‘Silverview.’ Does it live up to the spy master’s reputation?

The best-selling writer’s new book, published 10 months after his death at age 89, delivers a thought-provoking story — and a warning. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-10-13 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Rachel Held Evans’ Wholehearted Faith Lives On in New Book

The bestselling progressive Christian writer died in 2019 but “a vision doesn’t die with one person,” says her husband who is orchestrating the publishing of Evan’s remaining manuscripts. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
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PEN America Goes Live Again at 2021 Gala

Literati and Hollywood royalty alike were back at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on October 5 for the PEN America Literary Gala, one of the first major indoor and in-person events held by a literary institution since the pandemic began. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Return of Live PNBA Delights Pacific Booksellers, Publishers

The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association convened the first in-person fall regional conference to take place since the start of the pandemic in Portland, Ore., this week, attracting 180 booksellers, 150 publishers and 50 authors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Women's Prize Discoveries programme returns in Audible partnership

The Women's Prize Trust Discoveries writing development programme is returning this year in partnership with Audible and backed by Curtis Brown. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-29 19:15:53 UTC ]
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Will Smith: 'Black Lives Matter' Is A Better Slogan Than 'Defund The Police'

The actor told GQ: “I’m not saying we shouldn’t defund the police. I’m saying, just don’t say that, because then people who would help you won’t.” Continue reading at The Huffington Post

[ The Huffington Post | 2021-09-27 18:04:34 UTC ]
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All Our Possible Lives: On Sylvia Plath, Matt Haig, and the Female Suicide Narrative

Matt Haig’s latest novel, The Midnight Library, has spent 40 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list since its publication in September 2020. The novel focuses on Nora Seed, a young woman living in her hometown of Bedford, England, who thinks she has nothing to live for. She decides to die... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-09-22 08:49:49 UTC ]
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Algoriddim's djay iOS app uses Shazam to recognize and sync with live music

Algoriddim has been working closely with Apple for years on its djay apps and regularly appears in the company's keynotes. Now, it's integrating another Apple product, Shazam, into its latest iOS djay app with the release of iOS 15. The new feature lets you can scan your surroundings and... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2021-09-20 14:00:01 UTC ]
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Live Your Home Library Dream With These Ex Libris Stamps

Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body reimagines nineties adolescence—mashing up girl group series, choose-your-own-adventures, and chronicles of anorexia—in a queer and trans coming-of-age tale like no other. An interrogation of girlhood and nostalgia, dysmorphia and dysphoria, this... Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2021-09-15 10:31:00 UTC ]
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Lavery nominated as Edinburgh's next Makar

Poet and playwright Hannah Lavery has been nominated as Edinburgh's new Makar, or poet laureate. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-12 23:21:54 UTC ]
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Audible to sponsor Women's Prize Discoveries programme

Audible has been named the sponsor of the Women's Prize for Fiction Discoveries programme in a three-year deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-07 09:47:19 UTC ]
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Roger Federer may be out with an injury, but he’s present — and forthcoming — in a new book

‘The Master’ pulls back the layers on the legendary player who thinks of himself as a ‘regular guy.’ Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-08-25 12:00:00 UTC ]
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S.J. Perelman was a master of comedy. Nearly a century later, his work still delivers laughs.

Adam Gopnik, the editor of a new Perelman anthology, discusses the humorist’s work. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-08-25 12:00:00 UTC ]
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New indie bookshop nods to Bristol's 'radical past and present'

A new independent bookshop which nods to Bristol’s “radical past and present” has opened in the city’s Harbourside area, near where Edward Colston's statue was brought down last year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-25 11:33:12 UTC ]
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Audible to release Peter Kay's record-breaking autobiography with bonus chapters

Audible is releasing an audiobook of Peter Kay’s record-breaking autobiography The Sound of Laughter in September with two new and exclusive bonus chapters. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-25 06:53:06 UTC ]
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Hamnet summer campaign employs 'living billboard'

The marketing and publicity team behind Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (Tinder Press) have unfurled a living billboard in south London, as part of their summer reading campaign. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-17 10:34:54 UTC ]
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How I Tracked Down the Hidden Lives of the Radical, Wealthy Morris Sisters

In 2008, I published my first book, Please Excuse My Daughter, a memoir about my mother and me and how I grew up, and it dipped a little into my mother’s family’s history, which was rich and interesting. Her mother’s uncle, Sam Golding, developed the neighborhood of Rego Park in Queens during... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-08-16 08:49:26 UTC ]
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Michael J. Fox Reviews a Thoughtful Memoir on the Challenges of Living With Disability

In “I Live a Life Like Yours,” Jan Grue, a Norwegian professor, writes of living with a rare form of spinal muscular atrophy. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-08-15 09:00:03 UTC ]
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Sphere lands TV presenter Sophie Morgan's 'unflinching' memoir

Sphere has acquired TV presenter Sophie L Morgan's "unflinching" memoir Driving Forwards: A Journey of Resilience and Empowerment After Life-Changing Injury. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-11 16:55:16 UTC ]
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