Christine Quinn Wants to Be the First Female Mayor of New York City

As of this writing, Christine Quinn, the first female and openly gay speaker of the New York City Council, remains a front-runner in the city’s crowded race for mayor. A poll by Quinnipiac University, the New York Times reports, shows Quinn, the second-most-powerful elected official in the metropolis, with 22 percent of the vote among registered Democrats, just behind Anthony Weiner’s 25 percent—a statistical dead heat. The numbers for Quinn’s memoir, With Patience and Fortitude, however, are much grimmer: The book, published June 11 by HarperCollins, charts at No. 564,916 on Amazon’s sales rankings. Continue reading at 'Slate'

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Julia Alvarez and the Female Book of Job

The National Medal of Arts recipient reflects on the immigration crisis in Afterlife, her first novel for adults in almost 15 years. The post Julia Alvarez and the Female Book of Job appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading at The Millions

[ The Millions | 2020-02-20 11:00:47 UTC ]
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Headline and Koomson launch open casting call for black female audiobook narrators

Headline and Dorothy Koomson have launched "Find My Verity", an open casting call designed to bring more black female voices into the world of audiobooks. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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New Literary Prize Will Award $150,000 to a Female Novelist

The Carol Shields Prize is an effort to raise the visibility of women writers, in part with a sum that far exceeds many other book awards. Continue reading at The New York Times

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How a mob turned a diverse city into a white-supremacist bastion

In 1898, corruption and violence drove blacks from Wilmington, N.C., writes David Zucchino. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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New York Public Library’s most checked-out books say a lot about what we read and why

The recently unveiled list, compiled from more than a century of circulation data, is like a literary cardiogram of the nation’s beating heart. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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WI15: Bookselling in The City That Reads

Baltimore has long since replaced its nickname from the 1980s, the City That Reads, but it still rings true for today’s independent booksellers in the city. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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'Nobody in Tesco buys spy books by women': how female authors took on the genre

Publishing’s long established boys’ club in espionage fiction is having its cover blown by a new school led by Stella Rimington, Manda Scott and Charlotte PhilbyWhen Stella Rimington, the former director general of MI5 and spy author, wrote a new foreword last year to The Spy’s Bedside Book,... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2020-01-07 09:00:54 UTC ]
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How a Voice of Female Gen X Anxiety Spends Her Sundays

Ada Calhoun had a rough year. Fortunately, the process of writing her latest book prepared her for it. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Kachka Leaving 'New York' for 'L.A. Times'

Boris Kachka, whose tenure as books editor at 'New York' magazine saw the publication experiment with tripling its book coverage, will succeed former books editor Carolyn Kellogg at the 'Los Angeles Times.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Somali Authorities Shut Down Radio Station City FM, Seek to Question Owner

On December 19, police in Jowhar, the capital of Hirshabelle state, raided the privately owned City FM broadcaster, briefly detained Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

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Considering Darryl Pinckney and Authenticity

This week, Lauretta Charlton reviews Darryl Pinckney’s collection of essays “Busted in New York.” In 1992, Edmund White wrote for the Book Review about “High Cotton,” Pinckney’s debut novel about a young black man coming of age. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Puffin lands Jacqueline Woodson's New York Times bestseller

Puffin will publish Brown Girl Dreaming, the multi-award winning memoir told in verse by author Jacqueline Woodson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Author campaigns to save Yorkshire's Red House

A campaign is under way to save historic literary site the Red House, in West Yorkshire, which has links to Charlotte Brontë. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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‘Richard Jewell’ is only the latest film to depict a female journalist trading sex for scoops

The persistence of this trope might say something about the barriers women in media continue to face. Continue reading at The Conversation

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Sethi seeks sponsors and patrons for 'storytelling centre' in inner-city Manchester

Journalist and activist Anita Sethi is founding the I Belong Here foundation to help marginalised groups find a voice through writing—including proposing a ‘Ministry of Stories’-inspired "house of stories of the North" in her old childhood home in inner-city Manchester. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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First Madeleine L'Engle Conference Held in New York City

Nearly 200 participants, including a distinguished roster of children’s book authors, gathered on November 16 in Manhattan to discuss how faith and art inform each other, during "Walking on Water: The Madeleine L'Engle Conference." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Gail Rebuck calls for more female publishing heads

Baroness Gail Rebuck called for more female c.e.o.s in publishing during a FutureBook Live panel, taking issue with Orion m.d. Katie Espiner, who had referenced the same topic in a keynote earlier in the day. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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The New York Times’ acclaimed “1619 Project” to become a series of books.

Random House announced today that they’ve acquired the rights to a series of books based on the New York Times Magazine’s extraordinarily popular “1619 Project,” which interrogates received perspectives on four centuries of slavery in America through essays, stories, histories, poems, and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-11-20 13:52:40 UTC ]
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On Finding Islands of Beauty in the Eternal City

What follows is a set of vignettes, or “islands,” from the recently published book Islands—New Islands (Fontanella Press, 2019), where they appear alongside archival photos from the American Academy in Rome. Written in Italian by Marco Lodoli, they were first published serially in the newspaper... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-11-18 09:47:44 UTC ]
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Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post and David Remnick of The New Yorker Join Pulitzer Board

Carlos Lozada, an associate editor and book critic for The Washington Post, and David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

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