Eve Ensler waited decades for an apology from her abusive father. She finally wrote one herself.

“I needed to understand what led my father to do what he did,” the “Vagina Monologues” playwright says. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

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Retailers cope with Covid-19 wave as publishers wait on office reopenings

Book retailers say they have been able to cope in recent weeks despite the Omicron wave hitting staff, while most UK publishers continue to ask people to work from home and keep their offices open for employees who need them. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-18 06:44:20 UTC ]
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UK book sales in 2021 highest in a decade

Booming appetites for crime, sci-fi and romance drive fiction sales 20% higher than in 2019, with Richard Osman the year’s bestselling authorBook sales continued to climb last year despite lockdowns, with more than 212m print books sold in 2021 – the highest figure of the last decade.Driven by... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2022-01-11 17:21:11 UTC ]
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Abuse Survivor Weighs ‘How Much Is a Little Boy Worth?’

Rachael Denhollander, the first former gymnast to publicly accuse physician Larry Nassar of sexual abuse, is addressing issues of identity and self-worth that young boys face in a new children’s book. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Joan Didion, who chronicled American decadence and hypocrisy, dies at 87

Her novels and essays explored the agitated, fractured state of the nation’s psyche. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-12-23 17:15:33 UTC ]
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HarperCollins apologizes to Russian billionaire over book claiming Putin ordered Chelsea soccer team purchase

“Putin’s People” author Catherine Belton said the claim on Roman Abramovich’s acquisition of Chelsea “has not been admitted to be false.” Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-12-23 08:51:35 UTC ]
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Waiting list for LBF as rollovers and reduced space leave some firms struggling

Some agents and publishers who chose not to roll over their London Book Fair bookings from 2020 have reported struggling to get tables at next year’s event, with organisers admitting there is now a waiting list amid high demand and construction works at the Olympia venue. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-20 16:42:18 UTC ]
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Wilson joins Hachette Children's after decade at HarperCollins

Harriet Wilson will join Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) as publisher of fiction brands and classics, after more than a decade with HarperCollins Children’s Books.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-19 22:58:37 UTC ]
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Eve Babitz, who chronicled and reveled in Hollywood hedonism, dies at 78

In acerbic essays and novels, she wrote about Hollywood's wild excesses, and her own, becoming a literary phenomenon. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-12-19 13:42:08 UTC ]
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Inspired by real-life murderers, Dostoevsky wrote a new kind of novel

“Crime and Punishment” was a turning point for the Russian writer — and for literature. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-12-03 13:00:00 UTC ]
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In ‘The City of Mist,’ a final word from Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A posthumously published story collection by the best-selling author of “The Shadow of the Wind” blends the familiar with a new perspective. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-12-01 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Alice Sebold Apologizes to Man Wrongly Convicted of Raping Her

Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in prison after the author identified him as her attacker in an assault she described in her memoir “Lucky.” Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-11-30 23:51:15 UTC ]
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Alice Sebold's memoir, 'Lucky,' pulled as she apologizes to man wrongly convicted of her rape

Sebold apologized to Anthony Broadwater, convicted of her rape in 1982 and exonerated last week. Her publisher announced a pause to consider revisions. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-11-30 22:41:08 UTC ]
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Nugent's Lying in Wait to be developed as mini series

Liz Nugent’s psychological thriller Lying In Wait (Penguin Books) is to be developed as a mini-series. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-24 22:34:54 UTC ]
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People Like Her Didn’t Exist in French Novels. Until She Wrote One.

Fatima Daas’s debut book explores the writer’s conflicted identities as a lesbian, Muslim woman with an immigrant background. In France, it was an unlikely literary hit. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-11-19 10:21:37 UTC ]
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Paul Newman’s memoir—which he started writing in the 80s—will finally be released next fall.

If you’re like me and have a deep appreciation and love of classic Hollywood, then you’ll be delighted to hear that Knopf plans to publish Paul Newman’s memoir in the fall of 2022. The actor, who died in 2008 at the age of 83, began working on his memoir in the 1980s; according to the […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-11-03 14:46:35 UTC ]
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For His Father and His Son, Ai Weiwei Is Determined to Leave a Trace

The Chinese dissident artist writes a memoir of family, exile and the inseparability of art and politics. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-10-30 09:00:03 UTC ]
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Cassandra Peterson finally drags Elvira, L.A.'s spookiest icon, out of the dark

Halloween queen opens up in memoir about alter ego Elvira, troubling encounters with Wilt Chamberlain and Tom Jones, and the relationship she hid for years. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-10-29 16:45:44 UTC ]
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How did the Beatles do it? Paul McCartney is finally telling us.

In “The Lyrics,” McCartney delivers an insider’s look at all the songs — and giving credit to Black artists along the way. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-10-29 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Did you know that Sylvia Plath wrote a rhyming children’s book about silly beds?

Sylvia Plath was born 89 years ago today. A published writer from age at, she left behind a vast catalogue of poetry and prose, especially given her short life. One of her most charming works was a rhyming children’s book written in 1959 (before either of her children were born) and published in... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-10-27 17:44:35 UTC ]
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