AFTER THE BIBLE, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote is said to be the best-selling book of all time, with estimated sales of 500 million copies. In 2002, the Guardian surveyed 100 of the “world’s best authors” (including Salman Rushdie) regarding which book was the best of all time. Don Quixote won. It attracted 50 percent […] The post Channeling Cervantes: On Salman Rushdie’s “Quichotte” appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'
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Salman Rushdie will discuss the significance of freedom of expression for authors and the book industry in his keynote address at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year. A spokesperson for the Frankfurt Book Fair said: “The publication of polemic literature and its consequences affect not just... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The first cookbook from the independent Paula Deen Ventures debuts at #8 on PW’s hardcover nonfiction list. Plus, the latest James Bond outing, Salman Rushdie’s new novel, and much more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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More than 150 writers from around the world, including Margaret Atwood, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Yann Martel, Salman Rushdie and Colm Tóibín, have condemned the murders of three secular bloggers in Bangladesh this year. The group, which also includes publishers and lawyers, has joined PEN... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Author and writing coach William Zinsser, who penned the best-selling book On Writing Well, dies in New York, aged 92. Continue reading at BBC News
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Pupils from St Edmund Arrowsmith High School meet author Joseph Delaney and talk to him about his best-selling book The Spook's Apprentice which has just been made into a Hollywood film. Continue reading at BBC News
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A new novel by Salman Rushdie being published this autumn will blend “history, mythology, and a timeless love story to bring alive a world - our world – that has been plunged into an age of unreason”. Jonathan Cape will publish Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights in September, seven... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Random House has acquired 'Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights,' a new novel by Salman Rushdie, set to pub in September. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Salman Rushdie has been awarded the 2014 PEN/Pinter Prize. The award will be presented... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Adam Mansbach’s best-selling book, Go the F*** to Sleep, has become one of the few books in history to be translated into Jamaican Patois. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Over the past year, an increasingly central plank of conservative and Tea Party rhetoric is that constitutional change is needed and that the 17th Amendment in particular, which gives state residents the power to elect senators directly, should be repealed. (Previously, senators were selected by... Continue reading at Slate
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"I was just sitting with my dog in the sun daydreaming and the book came along, the rabbit fur cover, the feeling of the thing, its weight," Iranian–New Zealander artist Nabil Sabio Azadi tells Co.Design of For You the Traveller, the world's furriest travel book, available this week for the... Continue reading at Fast Company
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It’s an odd week when you follow up a review of a movie about a homophobe—Jean-Marc Vallée’s excellent Dallas Buyers Club—with a review of a movie by a homophobe, or, rather, based on a best-selling book by a very prominent one. Before the release of Ender’s Game, an adaptation by... Continue reading at Slate
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Bestselling author Salman Rushdie shares his thoughts on writing, living in hiding, and the subjectivity of freedom. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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Salman Rushdie and Jenni Fagan are among the authors shortlisted for the £10,000 James Tait... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The letter of gratitude Salman Rushdie wrote to independent bookstores has been made into a poster that will be hung in some stores. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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Salman Rushdie's publicity schedule for his new memoir will be unaffected by the increase in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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A planned videolink appearance by Salman Rushdie at the Jaipur Literature Festival today (24th... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Salman Rushdie has expressed his "outrage" following a report in The Hindu that... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 27/05/2011 - 10:18 Chiki Sarkar, former editor-in-chief of Random House India, has been appointed publisher of Penguin India. Chiki had worked at Random House India since 2006, working with authors including Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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