Beyond Metafiction: A Reading List of Labyrinthine Realities

The story within a story. It’s a common enough trope—from The Arabian Nights to Hamlet to the postmodern canon, we’re familiar with books that nest realities inside one another. Moving from the main narrative to the nested narrative can reveal interesting echoes, parallels, and reflections, and can offer thematic insight into the book as a […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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C&W holds competition for 'must-read' novels

Literary agency Conville and Walsh has launched a competition to find new novels "that people just can't stop talking about". The agency is offering a prize of £1,000 and possible representation to an unpublished work in its new Word of Mouth competition, which will be judged by author Matt... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The ebook industry needs to make reading more social

The music, film and TV industries have all undergone radical transformations over the last fifteen years. In contrast, the publishing industry is only now feeling the full force of technological change. Ebooks and ereaders are changing consumers' reading habits and throwing up serious questions... Continue reading at Betanews

[ Betanews | 2014-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan buys “enchanting” fantasy read

Pan Macmillan is to publish Uprooted, the new novel from fantasy writer Naomi Novik. Editorial director Julie Crisp acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Del Rey, part of Penguin Random House in the US. Novik is the author of the Temeraire series, published in the UK by Harper Voyager. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How Facebook Could End Up Controlling Everything You Watch and Read Online

Given that links appear to be more clickable when shared on Facebook, online publishers have scrambled to become savvy gamers of Facebook’s News Feed, seeking to divine the secret rules that push some stories higher than others. But all this genuflection at the altar of Facebook’s algorithms may... Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gillian Flynn, Diana Gabaldon's books dominate sales lists following screen adaptations

Sales bumps after books are adapted as movies or TV shows are nothing new, but 'Gone Girl' author Flynn and 'Outlander' writer Gabaldon are seeing their older books reappear and hold steady on bestseller lists as well. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Stellar New Fantasy Novel and 4 Other Books We’re Reading This Month

This month, we’re balancing some quick reads---a Jonathan Franzen-blessed debut and a slim companion volume from one of our favorite new(-ish) fantasy writers---with Walter Isaacson’s latest blockbuster on the history of technological innovation, along with a few other selections. Attention,... Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Columbia Global Reports Sets Inaugural List

Clay Shirky and Bethany McLean are among the first authors signed up for the inaugural Columbia Global Reports list, which debuts in fall 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Religion Update Fall 2014: Biblical Scholarship - Old Characters, Fresh Readings

There’s a scene early in the recent film Noah in which Noah plants a seed from the garden of Eden. It sprouts and spreads into a lush and glorious forest as quickly as critics scrambled to find biblical precedent. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Six new billionaires from Bay Area make the Forbes 400 list

A half-dozen of the 27 newcomers on the Forbes annual list of the 400 richest U.S. citizens disclosed this week are from the San Francisco Bay Area, including four in technology, one in biotechnology and one in venture capital. Topping the newcomer list in net worth was Jan Koum, co-founder and... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal

[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Omidyar, other billionaires with Hawaii ties, on Forbes list of richest Americans: Slideshow

Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay and Honolulu Civil Beat, was the only full-time Hawaii resident to make Forbes magazine’s l ist of the 400 richest Americans. But part-time isle residents such as Larry Ellison, Michael Dell and Oprah Winfrey — and soon-to-be landowner Mark Zuckerberg — also made... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal

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Celebrate the Week: Read a Banned Book!

September 21-27 is Banned Books Week. Here we offer a list of titles that have been challenged, restricted, removed, or banned in 2013 and 2014. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PIPCU shuts down On Read

E-book download site On Read has been shut down by the City of London's Police Intellectual... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Nook builds on partnership for 'Get London Reading'

Nook Media has signed a multi-platform partnership with ESI Media, the commercial department of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stretchable Shelves Hold All Those Books You'll Never Read

Just get a Kindle already. You're insufferable.It's the conundrum of any Ikea visit. How big do you go? Do you buy enough storage for right now, or do you pad it out? One way, you have a bunch of tchotchkes sitting on the floor in two years. The other, you live in an abandoned library.Read Full... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2014-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Read On. Get On. campaign vows to tackle dyslexia

Save the Children says it will address the issue of dyslexia through its Read On. Get On.... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Coalition to tackle UK 'reading crisis'

A new coalition is being formed to tackle what it calls a "reading crisis" among... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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'Reading Rainbow' host LeVar Burton will publish a children's book

Burton's book 'The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm' will reportedly be released this October. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Never-before-published section of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' is available for reading

The children's book by Roald Dahl is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kobo Inks Exclusive Deal to Offer Reading Eggs E-books

E-book retailer Kobo has reached an agreement with Blake eLearning to sell the company’s interactive Reading Eggs kids’ ebooks through the Kobo Kids’ Store. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador Classic list for 2015

Picador is to launch a new paperback Picador Classic list, with the first titles to be released... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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