Christmas Creep: Pushing Black Friday Up

It’s not just Amazon that is testing how early shoppers are willing to get serious about Christmas. B&N is launching Discovery Weekend, the weekend before Thanksgiving. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

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Black and Pragmatic: The Life and Books of Stanley Crouch

The death of Stanley Crouch - author, jazz critic, columnist and novelist - at age 74 ended five decades of engrossing, often iconoclastic declarations on race, jazz, politics, film criticism, and American culture. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Loud Black Girls panel to feature at first Streatham Literature Festival

The inaugural Streatham Arts Festival is to be headlined by a panel event, featuring contributors to 2020 anthology Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls in conversation with Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-06 17:13:34 UTC ]
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Michael Joseph scoops Wilkerson's debut Black Cake

Michael Joseph has won a multi-publisher auction for Charmaine Wilkerson's “dazzling” debut novel Black Cake in a six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-30 13:42:20 UTC ]
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Hachette UK reveals programme of events for Black History Month, spearheaded by THRIVE

Hachette UK’s black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) employee network THRIVE is partnering with its authors to host a series of free panels in celebration of Black History Month. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-30 03:00:06 UTC ]
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Will Poetry Push This Publisher Through the Pandemic?

Kansas City, Mo.–based Andrews McMeel Publishing is seeing strong sales despite disruptions caused by the ongoing pandemic—and poetry has a whole lot to do with it. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Watch 'Black Poets in a Time of Unrest' live

L.A. poet laureate Robin Coste Lewis and other poets share experiences and verse with L.A. Times Book Club readers. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-09-24 20:18:48 UTC ]
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Chris Rock on Joining Fargo and Avoiding ‘the Eddie Murphy Handbook’ for Black Comics

For Chris Rock, who has spent his career trying to avoid what he calls "the Eddie Murphy handbook" that Hollywood has for breakout Black comedians, Fargo was the perfect opportunity. Season 4 of FX's anthology crime series, inspired by the 1996 film, is set in 1950 Kansas City, where the head of... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2020-09-24 12:00:46 UTC ]
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Angie Thomas and Justin Reynolds On Ending Black Male Stereotypes

The New England Independent Booksellers Association launched its virtual fall conference with a conversation between YA authors Angie Thomas and Justin Reynolds, who emphasized their commitment to dispelling harmful assumptions about young Black men. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Black Childhood as Idyll: On Vivian Gibson’s “The Last Children of Mill Creek”

THIS PAST APRIL, the Cleveland-based indie press Belt Publishing released The Last Children of Mill Creek, a memoir by Vivian Gibson. At just 150 pages, the book is a spare, elegant jewel of a work, chronicling the author’s childhood growing up in segregated St. Louis in the 1950s. In 1959, when... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-09-17 12:30:03 UTC ]
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Nine and News Corp donate advertising space to back Qantas push for open borders

The Age and Sydney Morning Herald get behind corporate campaign to ease Covid-related travel lockdowns Follow our Australian coronavirus live blogFull Australian Covid stats; Covid restrictions state by stateNSW cases map; Vic cases mapNSW hotspots list; Qld hotspots listSign up for Guardian... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2020-09-17 02:14:42 UTC ]
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Walter Mosley changes gears with ‘The Awkward Black Man,’ a meditation on health, aging and life

The story collection is a departure for the beloved writer best known for his Easy Rawlins mysteries. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-09-15 12:00:00 UTC ]
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MCB releasing two new versions of Olusoga's Black and British

Macmillan Children's Books is releasing two new editions of Black and British, the book by historian and broadcaster Professor David Olusoga which was originally published by Macmillan’s adult publishing arm in 2016. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-14 06:58:49 UTC ]
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Community-based providers push to continue behavioral health reforms

Plus: EmblemHealth, Somos ink value-based deal Northwell's Feinstein Institutes designated key aging-research center, gets $1.7M to fund pilots Covid-19 challenges Montefiore's... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2020-09-10 09:30:00 UTC ]
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August Religion Bestsellers: Politics Pushes to the Top

An evangelical "manifesto" from Phil Robertson nudges Christian advice and inspiration aside on the nonfiction list while fiction readers escape with romance, suspense and mystery. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
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#Merky nets Jacobs book on black footballers

#Merky Books has netted has landed an exploration of what it means to be a black footballer from Calum Jacobs. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-07 02:29:22 UTC ]
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Record orders for BA Christmas catalogue

The Booksellers Association says it has received a record number of orders for this year's Christmas catalogue, featuring introductions by Hilary Mantel and Cressida Cowell, as the busy autumn period kicks off. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-06 18:42:24 UTC ]
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Rebellion snares Lady from the Black Lagoon

Rebellion Publishing has snared Mallory O'Meara's award-winning biography of Disney animator and movie monster creator Milicent Patrick. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-01 11:12:54 UTC ]
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Check out this gorgeous illustrated map of Black-owned bookshops across the country.

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! As part of its guide to Black-owned bookshops in the US, O, The Oprah Magazine created an illustrated map of some of the highlights, and it’s really delightful. The team also asked writers like Tayari Jones, Kiley Reid, and Clint Smith where they like to shop;... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-08-28 17:29:48 UTC ]
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A New Moment for Black Bookstores

Four Black booksellers discuss how they navigate today’s turbulent social, political, and economic currents. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishing Professionals Push for Diversification Throughout Industry

Beyond the hiring of diverse editors, four publishing insiders said in a conversation sponsored by the Aspen Institute that if the needs of BIPOC readers are to be met, the industry must bring more diversity throughout the book publishing ecosystem. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
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