Three former members of the senior team at Midas Public Relations have joined forces to launch a new London-based PR agency for the publishing, arts, entertainment and leisure sectors. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kobo’s latest e-reader introduces a color E Ink screen that brings graphic novels, children’s books, and your favorite book covers to life. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2024-04-30 13:00:00 UTC ]
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In 'Fourteen Days,' the Authors Guild shows off its storytellers, including Dave Eggers, Celeste Ng, Scott Turow, Mira Jacob, Tommy Orange, Tess Gerritsen, R. L. Stine, Weike Wang and Ishmael Reed. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2024-02-06 16:00:00 UTC ]
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Forests of giant, scaly-stemmed club mosses once rose from ancient swamps in Atlantic Canada. But fossils found in a New Brunswick quarry show some trees that grew among them were even stranger — more like the truffula trees in Dr. Seuss books than any tree that exists today. Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2024-02-02 17:09:03 UTC ]
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An ereader lets you take a whole library of books with you wherever you go — and even lets you borrow titles from your actual library too. Kindles are probably the best known (and top selling) ereaders on the market and they make great gifts for the holidays. During... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2023-10-10 14:35:09 UTC ]
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My husband, a professor of electrical engineering by trade, is the kind of obsessive for which I have an affinity in my writing life. A refugee born in Latvia, John loves Latvian rye bread fervently. He eats Latvian rye several times a day and is unable to leave home without a five-pound loaf... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-08-16 09:50:36 UTC ]
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Long, long ago, a 1937 first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit was forged by a printing press and sold. For a time, it was lost to man, buried in the piles of donated inventory at the Cancer Research UK superstore in Dundee, Scotland, until manager Adam Carsley spotted the worn copy on the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-07-12 15:27:21 UTC ]
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Most actors make terrible novelists – but writing the ‘cracking thriller’ Deadly Game was life-affirming for the veteran star, so never mind the finished productGod spare us another millionaire actor who fancies themself as a bestselling author –unless the actor is Michael Caine, in which case... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-06-08 12:30:07 UTC ]
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When I saw the trailer for Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, I thought we’d reached the nadir of public domain-enabled re-imaginings, but it turns out, it can get much, much more horrifying than a low-budget slasher. Like a picture book in which the beloved bear must face a school shooter.... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-05-30 16:28:26 UTC ]
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PEN America and publisher Penguin Random House filed a federal suit against Escambia County School District over its removal of books from school libraries. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-05-18 17:34:04 UTC ]
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Staff statement blames closure after eight years on financial challenge of running independent media outletThe magazine gal-dem, an online and print publication for women and non-binary people of colour, is to fold after eight years.In a public statement shared on Friday, staff at gal-dem said:... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-03-31 12:59:18 UTC ]
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For so long, it seemed that readers were only interested in the experiences of people like me if we were traumatised, not triumphant – and I internalised this as an indisputable factGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailI can’t pinpoint exactly when I started imagining myself in the stories... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-03-18 19:00:19 UTC ]
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The author has always been drawn to the fringes of publishing, and is staking a claim for herself on those fringes this year, when she will launch her own indie press, Rose Books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-27 05:00:00 UTC ]
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During a career that began in 1965 as a California bookseller, Shoemaker founded North Point Press and Counterpoint Press, publishing such authors as Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, MFK Fisher, Guy Davenport, James Salter, Barry Lopez, Anne Lamott, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, Robert Hass, and Banana... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Mercer Mayer, author of 300 books including the long-running Little Critter series, has partnered with digital media developer John Sansevere to form a new company, Twelve/30. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-11-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
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BookTrust research shows, however, that the overall picture ‘remains far from representative’ with some writers and illustrators reporting tokenismNew research has found that 11.7% of children’s book creators published in the UK in 2021 were people of colour, up from 5.6% in 2017.Despite the big... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-11-23 06:01:50 UTC ]
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Following mass complaints about line-ups, flight disruptions and missing baggage at Pearson International Airport, some tourism groups fear travellers may choose to bypass Toronto. Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2022-07-29 08:00:00 UTC ]
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Lindsey Fitzharris's “The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I” tells of a plastic surgeon whose care went beyond physical healing. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-07-15 12:00:26 UTC ]
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The 19th-century British explorers Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were mismatched from the start, Candice Millard explains. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-05-27 12:00:03 UTC ]
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