The author of 'Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash' discusses how he became fascinated with garbage.Edward Humes is a man of eclectic storytelling tastes. A former journalist awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for a series of stories he wrote for the Orange County Register on the military establishment in Southern California, Humes has written 11 nonfiction books on subjects including how the GI Bill transformed the American Dream, Southern justice and the Dixie Mafia, and the juvenile justice system in Los Angeles County. His latest book, "Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash" (Avery: 278 pp., $27) covers a subject that most of us take for granted: the world of garage. We caught up with Humes and asked him about his writing process and the dirty business of trash. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
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Booksellers must pull together with other retailers in their community to increase footfall and save the British high street, the Booksellers Association conference heard on Sunday. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-08 23:26:25 UTC ]
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Samantha Power’s new memoir, “The Education of an Idealist,” describes a bracing moral test. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-09-05 22:27:05 UTC ]
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We need more women in tech, so when women in the field write about it, it's important to pay attention. Get insight from these books by women in tech. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2019-09-04 10:34:21 UTC ]
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Louise Tucker has won the inaugural Lost the Plot Work in Progress Prize for her "tender, moving, beautifully drawn" novel The Last Field. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-29 11:47:52 UTC ]
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In a filing this week, Audible has agreed to exclude titles from a group of major publishers from its Captions program until a recently filed copyright lawsuit is resolved. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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When a large U.S. newspaper cuts print publication days or curtails home delivery, headlines may scream media apocalypse. But for Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-08-27 15:09:04 UTC ]
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News Corp wants to give people an alternative to Google News and Apple News. The media company that owns Dow Jones Newswires and HarperCollins is working on its own news aggregation service, reported The Wall Street Journal. The service will be calle... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-08-22 21:14:00 UTC ]
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Welbeck Publishing Group reactivates the André Deutsch line as an imprint under the direction of former Orion publisher Malcolm Edwards. The post Welbeck Names Malcolm Edwards To Publish André Deutsch Line appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Penguin Books UK is publishing all four of J D Salinger’s works as e-books for the first time, as part of celebrations marking the centenary of his birth. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-12 05:42:10 UTC ]
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Jake Hope has been appointed as the new chair of the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway (CKG) Awards Working Party. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-07 04:29:41 UTC ]
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TimesUp! Not all heroes wear capes—or carry wands. Emma Watson, the actress and activist who is still best known as resident Harry Potter smarty-pants Hermione Granger, is taking on a new role. She has launched a free legal-advice hotline with Time’s Up for women in England and Wales who are... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-08-05 12:57:34 UTC ]
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Lucy Kissick’s debut novel Plutoshine has won the inaugural Writers & Artists Working-Class Writers’ Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-04 19:06:55 UTC ]
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Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers, announced Thursday that Edward Snowden's "Permanent Record" will be released on Sept. 17. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-08-01 19:04:36 UTC ]
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The National Security Agency whistle-blower has written a book exploring his role in mass surveillance and the “crisis of conscience” that led to his actions. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2019-08-01 17:09:52 UTC ]
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Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Macmillan, will release a memoir by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden titled Permanent Record in September, the publisher announced Thursday. The project has been cloaked in secrecy for the last year; the Associated Press reported Thursday that the book was... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-08-01 16:03:07 UTC ]
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In Permanent Record, the former spy will recount how his mass surveillance work eventually led him to make the biggest leak in historyAfter multiple books and films about his decision to leak the biggest cache of top-secret documents in history, whistleblower Edward Snowden is set to tell his... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-08-01 13:09:01 UTC ]
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If you don’t know Noname, the Chicago rapper and former slam poet born as Fatimah Nyeema Warner, now might be a good time to read up following the official launch of her book club on Wednesday. The unassuming 90s kid launched to fame after some notable collaborations with artists like Mick... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-25 17:08:40 UTC ]
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When I took my copy of Lemony Snicket’s The Carnivorous Carnival up to the check-out line at Barnes and Noble, the cashier flipped through the book and paused. She was sorry, she said, after a couple more puzzled page flips. There appeared to be a misprint. She called an employee in the kid’s... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2019-07-24 11:00:17 UTC ]
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In this week’s episode of A Phone Call From Paul, Paul Holdengraber and John Waters discuss his new memoir, Mr. Know-It-All (or as he describes, a “self-help book for lunatics,” what he’s reading this summer, and his experience working for Mary Oliver at her bookstore in Provincetown. From the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-18 08:48:16 UTC ]
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Author Carmen Marcus has teamed up with the North Yorkshire bookshop Book Corner to offer aspiring working-class writers a free course on developing a strategy to write professionally. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-10 19:37:39 UTC ]
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