At a panel convened in New York to discuss the French magazine’s award from PEN for courage, its editors say it is power they mean to provoke, not religion“The thing that surprised me the most,” Charlie Hebdo’s editor-in-chief Gérard Biard told an audience on Tuesday morning, “was the bells of Notre-Dame that rang for us”.He was speaking on a panel at the Arthur L Carter journalism school at New York University. The French satirical weekly is to receive the PEN American Center’s Toni and James C Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage award at a gala as part of the PEN World Voices festival. And the honour has kicked up a ruckus among some the novelists, journalists, and literary writers who form PEN’s large and diverse membership. (Full disclosure: this reporter is a member of the PEN American Center.) Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Karolina Waclawiak, its executive editor of culture, takes over the newsroom at a difficult moment for the digital media company. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2022-06-16 21:14:16 UTC ]
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Linda Sunshine established comics reprint imprints at both Harmony Books and Fireside in the 1970s that produced some of the earliest hardcover and trade paperback comics collections in the book trade. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Do you like the Best American series? Of course you do! Each book in the annual series showcases of best short fiction and nonfiction in a given year, from short stories to essays, travel writing, to food writing. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-06-06 14:51:57 UTC ]
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Ikkanda will join the Penguin Random House imprint as executive editor August 1. She will also acquire selectively for Dutton and Plume. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Did you miss the U.S. Book Show last week? Watch the Editors' Picks panels, along with the rest of our programming from the second annual U.S. Book Show, from now until the end of August. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Rowman & Littlefield’s new senior executive religion editor Richard Brown discusses his plans for growing R&L’s frontlist, challenges in today’s religion publishing industry, and the need for books that “illuminate dark places of society and dark places of the soul.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
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As fiction editor, he helped mold the stories of generations of writers. As a sportswriter, he was enshrined in the writers’ wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-05-20 21:24:22 UTC ]
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Providence Journal editor John Revelstoke Rathom also had a fake biography, writes journalist Mark Arsenault. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-05-20 12:00:53 UTC ]
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Our reviews editors put together eight virtual panels, each featuring the editors of several big fall titles in a given category or age range. Here, those editors tell us why their books stand out. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
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As Friday's opening of the 2022 in-person Festival du Livre de Paris approaches, Catherine Nabokov talks about nurturing 14 writers' work. The post France’s Catherine Nabokov: An Editor in Business as a Literary Agent appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2022-04-20 20:27:46 UTC ]
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Christopher Dore says some critics make him ‘cringe’. Plus: ‘Furries’ at elite Brisbane school?Christopher Dore has been the editor-in-chief of the Australian since 2018, and has quite the pedigree in editing Rupert Murdoch’s Australian mastheads. Dorey, as staff call him, has edited the Daily... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-03-25 03:05:12 UTC ]
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The digital publisher finds there’s no avoiding the industry’s punishing economics To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2022-03-22 15:51:02 UTC ]
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Veteran university press and religion publisher Richard Brown will join Rowman & Littlefield as senior executive editor of religion and his tasks include reviving the company's Sheed & Ward Catholic book imprint. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
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As he releases the latest fruits of his new megabucks deal with Netflix – an interactive cartoon about a cat – the Black Mirror creator discusses gaming, nuclear war, and why his generation has wrecked the UKCharlie Brooker is sitting at a desk, a big cardboard box in the background, miscellany... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-02-21 06:00:24 UTC ]
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Tom Dupree, who was a senior editor at Bantam for much of the 1990s and later an executive editor at HarperCollins, died of in his New York home on February 7. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-02-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The longtime Random House editor, who combined a deep passion for books with a shrewd business mind and, as a result, made multiple major contributions to 20th Century literary and publishing history, died on February 4. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-02-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Emma Cowdroy to step down from heading newswire service that was saved from attempted closure by shareholders including News Corp and NineThe former Sydney Morning Herald editor, Lisa Davies, has been appointed as the chief executive of Australian Associated Press.The move comes as Emma Cowdroy... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-01-20 22:44:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has scooped Why is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?, an insider account and debut by former BBC political programming editor Rob Burley. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-17 14:50:05 UTC ]
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Jenna Johnson has been promoted to v-p and editor-in-chief at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, succeeding Eric Chinski, who has stepped into a new role as senior executive editor. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
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