Cell Phones and Story Times (shelftalker)

A bookseller fights the urge to require parents to check their cell phones at the door during story time. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-02 13:00:00 UTC ]
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And Other Stories Expands in U.S.

U.K.-based literary publisher And Other Stories is expanding its footprint in the U.S., hiring former Farrar, Straus and Giroux editor Jeremy M. Davies as senior editor and searching for a U.S. director of publicity & trade marketing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Third Gill Lewis story for Barrington Stoke

Gill Lewis returns to Barrington Stoke for a third children's book, Swan Song, which will explore issues of anxiety and depression in young people, while also looking at the topic of wildlife protection. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-10 16:35:15 UTC ]
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Virago wins six-publisher fight for Grush's untold space story

Virago has triumphed in a six-publisher auction for The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women in Space by science reporter Loren Grush. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-08 06:21:34 UTC ]
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Lecrae Opens Up on Healing in Chaotic Times

In I Am Restored, the award-winning hip hop artist bares all his traumas and how he rediscovered his faith with a balance of therapy and theology. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Mirror Books to publish story of Pug Café

Mirror Books will publish Happy Dog Days at the Pug Café by Anushka Fernando and Bertie the Pug, the first book from the Pug Café. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-07 03:22:09 UTC ]
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In Emma Cline’s story collection, ‘Daddy,’ flawed men reap what they sow

As in “The Girls,” Cline’s wit is on point and her writing is evocative and seductive. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-09-04 08:54:40 UTC ]
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Octavia Butler has finally made the New York Times Best Seller list.

Why aren’t there more Science Fiction Black writers? There aren’t because there aren’t. What we don’t see, we assume can’t be. What a destructive assumption. —Octavia E. Butler, in Octavia E. Butler: Telling My Stories. A small good thing amid the unrelenting horror: This week, almost fifty... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-09-03 16:37:21 UTC ]
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JMP to publish Sally J Morgan's 'timely and pertinent' debut

John Murray Press will publish Sally J Morgan's debut Toto Among the Murderers on its J M Originals list this October. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-02 18:06:05 UTC ]
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Lockdown diaries: changing times

In terms of technology, we were lucky to be well set up for remote working: our company had already made sure we were equipped with the things we needed to work from home, so when it was announced that the office was closing, I was able to carry on and keep things moving. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-31 12:07:37 UTC ]
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This Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day: no better time to stock up on books.

Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow, August 29th, is Independent Bookstore Day. This year, the festivities will be both online and in-person at 600+ local bookstores around the country, starting tonight with a conversation between Mary Norris and Ann Goldstein about Elena Ferrante’s The Lying... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-08-28 17:01:59 UTC ]
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10 Short Stories About Women’s Transformations

The Little Mermaid sacrifices her tail for a human soul. The Navajo Changing Woman grows old and is reborn with the seasons. The nymph Daphne becomes a tree to escape lovesick Apollo. Women transform because we are hungry. We transform because we’re restless, and because we’re dangerous. Women... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2020-08-28 11:00:00 UTC ]
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The story of Trump’s impeachment, and what it says about our democracy

The Post’s Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan ask whether it reflects a nation in decline. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-08-21 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Icon Books scoops Mulhall's 'terrifying and timely' fascism examination

Icon Books is set to publish Dr Joe Mulhall’s The Global Far Right: Its Rise and Our Future next year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-20 22:57:23 UTC ]
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Jake Gyllenhaal will star in an adaptation of writer/editor/Solo cup urinator Dan Mallory’s story.

If you can remember as far back as February 2019, surely you recall Ian Parker’s barn-burner of a New Yorker story about the trail of deception left by book editor turned novelist Dan Mallory, whose authorship of the best-selling thriller The Woman in the Window is by far the least compelling... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-08-20 18:57:57 UTC ]
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Diane Cook’s ‘The New Wilderness’ is accidentally timely but also timeless

The novel, about a family that gives up modern conveniences to live in the woods, is a brutal, beguiling fairy tale about humanity. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-08-17 16:10:42 UTC ]
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July Religion Bestsellers: Inspiring Advice and Stories with Secrets

Encouragement in turbulent times leads the nonfiction list, while fiction readers escape to romance -- and mystery. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
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