“When you’re living your life, it doesn’t feel like a story. It only feels like a story when you look back on it,” says Benjamin Taylor. In the style of his memoir, “The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered,” winner of The Times’ 2018 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose,... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
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Pistorius's manager and agent Peet van Zyl says his client will write a book, but the law may not let him. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Among this year's nominees are the first cartoonist to be considered for the prize (Roz Chast), a Pulitzer Prize winner (Edward O. Wilson), and a Tony winner (John Lahr). Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher Black Balloon is offering $250 to the indie bookstore with the most creative display of its new anthology 'Come Here Often? 53 Writers Raise a Glass to Their Favorite Bar.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Among the poets on this year’s longlist are two former National Book Award Finalists and two former Poets Laureate of the United States. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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WikiLeaks founders ill-starred book was offered as a project to the novelist, who decided two control freaks should not collaborateThe two-time Booker-winning novelist Peter Carey turned down the opportunity to ghost the memoirs of his fellow Australian and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, he... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Open science platform Frontiers has won the gold award at the Assocation for Learned &... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Forget laptop stickers: Intel’s pasted a second screen on a prototype laptop it showed at its annual developer conference.The laptop had a regular screen on one side of the display panel and a gray scale e-ink screen on the other. When it was shut, the e-ink screen could serve as an electronic... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writing for The Atlantic, Kate Newman wonders why memoirs aren't fact-checked more closely and questions whether a lack of resources is really to blame. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James Herbert’s daughter Kerry Herbert and fantasy writer Sarah Pinborough are among the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Neil Gaiman will present the medal to Le Guin at the 65th National Book Awards ceremony on November 19, in New York City. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Avon has signed rights in three novels by C L Taylor. Senior commissioning editor Lydia Vassar-... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zimmer is the president and co-founder of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit social enterprise, First Book Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three school librarians have been shortlisted for the School Library Association's school... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Italian writer Claudio Magris (b. 1939) has been awarded the 2014 Prize in Romance Languages by the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL). Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Judith Appelbaum will be presented with the 2014 Lifetime Service Award at the BISG annual meeting on September 19, 2014 in New York City. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton is to publish the autobiography of Sachin Tendulkar, the highest-run... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With blunt, expletive-drenched writing, the voice of 'Thug Kitchen' stands out in the world of healthy living and cooking websites. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Memoirs dominate the longlist of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, with the personal... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Scottish Children’s Book Awards shortlists have been announced with Floris Books... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Academy of American Poets has awarded Pulitzer Prize-winner and former poet laureate Robert Hass the 2014 Wallace Stevens Award. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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