Florence Welch is nervous. "I get very anxious in interviews," she says, her pale cheeks flushed, her dark eyes shining. "I've always felt overwhelmed by my emotions. Even sitting here now I want to cry and I don't know why." We are sitting side-by-side on a yellow striped sofa in the front room of the Florence and the Machine singer's south London home, a small Georgian cottage fitted out in racing greens and walnut browns, patterned rugs and antique fittings. Gilt framed artworks crowd the walls, vintage bric-a-brac covers every surface, and countless books are densely packed on to shelves or stacked in perilous ziggurats around the floor. Volumes by American writers like Lorrie Moore, John Berryman and Patti Smith rub spines with the poetry of TS Eliot and a handsome edition of Mary Beard's history of Pompeii. Welch catches me admiring this distinctly esoteric library and laughs. "I hid the self-help books before you got here," she says. Dressed in a delicate floral shirt, her (dyed) red hair tied up in braids, she is pale, slender, strikingly beautiful – and evidently anxious. "I find it easier to explain myself in music than in person," she says. "Songs are like protective talismans. In daily life, I'm much more unsure and shy." READ MORE: * Florence Welch's beautiful bedside duet with sick teen fan * Florence and life beyond the machine In person, she is unrecognisable as the superstar performer who had the Glastonbury crowds eating out of her hands in... Continue reading at 'Stuff'
[ Stuff | 2017-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#critically acclaimed
#topped charts
The 2024 British Book Awards had their big night at Grosvenor House in London, celebrating both book and trade award winners. The post British Book Awards: The 2024 Trade and Book Honors appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-05-14 03:51:46 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#british book
#grosvenor house
#big night
Before releasing new memoir "Down With the System" on May 14, Tankian spoke about why he's optimistic about Armenia, and whether we might see another album from System of a Down. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2024-05-09 21:29:13 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
Four new titles look at the visionaries who transformed the performing arts in 20th-century America, from group portraits of trailblazing ballerinas and jazz legends to biographies of a folk icon and Broadway director. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
The Spanish-language digital children’s book platform is already in 18 public library systems Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#children’s book
Another new residential development is on its way to Gowanus, more than two years after the neighborhood's rezoning.Developer Michael Khoo is planning a project at 557 Third Ave., located between 14th and 15th streets in the Brooklyn neighborhood, that will span about 30,000 square feet with 41... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2024-03-05 18:08:04 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#privately owned
#immediately clear
#press time
Published by Dark Horse Books in collaboration with the African American horror publisher Second Sight Publishing, 'Shook! A Black Horror Anthology' collects a dozen tales of hair-raising terror, monsters, and gore grounded in America’s grim racial history and enlivened by humor and hip-hop culture. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-02-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
When users open an Incognito browser on Chrome, they'll see a notification warning them that other people using their device won't be able to see their activity but that their downloads, bookmarks and reading items will still be saved. Now, Google has updated that disclaimer in Chrome's... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-01-17 10:38:07 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#reading list
#add language
Bless me, Gaben, for I have sinned. In a moment of weakness I turned off the adult content filters in my Steam search, and now my game library has been tainted by the shame of tender, undulating flesh rendered in Unreal Engine. But fear not, fellow naughty gamers: Steam will soon let you... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2023-12-21 15:29:02 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#libraries
#unreal engine
#video games
#ve made
On Dec. 12, California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick talks about life on the road at the L.A. Times Book Club. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-12-12 20:24:33 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#times book
An excerpt from Alice Sadie Celine by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright Check out the audiobook edition of this excerpt, read by award-winning actress Chloë Sevigny, from Simon & Schuster Audio. Simon & Schuster Audio · ALICE SADIE CELINE Audiobook Excerpt – Chapter 1 AliceFRIDAY Opening night... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2023-11-20 12:05:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#audiobook
#electric literature
#audiobook edition
British author A.S. Byatt, who was known for award-winning works including 'Possession' and 'The Children's Book,' has died. She was 87. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-11-17 17:18:21 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#british author
#booker prize-winning
#british writer
The literary community holds onto empathy as a dear goal while navigating the complexities of the human experience through the eyes of characters from diverse backgrounds. Readers worldwide have long celebrated the promise of empathy as a conduit for profound understanding, and reading from... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-11-16 09:49:02 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#literary community
#profound understanding
#readers worldwide
#diverse backgrounds
#human experience
#palestinian authors
Libraries across Europe appear to be facing attacks from cybercriminals. At Britain’s national library, an “incident” is sending scholars back to an analog age. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2023-11-03 17:15:37 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#libraries
#national library
#apparent cyberattack
Today in London, the British Academy announced the winner of the 11th British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding: Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das. “Nandini Das has written the true origin story of Britain and India,” said Professor... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-10-31 19:20:23 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#book prize
Now in its third year, the event stepped up its ambitions and aims not only to spotlight authors but to change audiencesAs a child, Selina Brown had a Saturday routine: her mother would go shopping and leave her at the library, where she would speed her way through novels by Jacqueline Wilson... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-10-20 12:55:16 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#british book
#black authors
#black girl
#jacqueline wilson
The Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association's fall conference in Denver was filled with high energy for its 400 total participants, as publishing industry veterans met up with the next generation of booksellers inside and outside the exhibit hall. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#publishing industry
#exhibit hall
#high energy
#fall conference
The Mountains & Plains Indie Booksellers Association's annual FallCon kicked off quietly Wednesday afternoon, but quickly picked up steam Thursday as more than 200 booksellers gathered in Denver to network with each other and to meet authors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#meet authors
Drag performers who read stories to children at libraries across Canada have faced an increase in protests calling the events destructive for kids, and in some cases, even threats of violence. But the king and queens say they won't let that stop them, because storytimes are about joy and literacy. Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2023-09-16 08:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#libraries
#read stories
London's British Academy Book Prize reports on its 2022 winner's sales and rights deals as it releases its 2023 nonfiction shortlist. The post British Academy Names a Shortlist; Reports on Sales Impact appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2023-09-12 12:57:48 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#book prize
#rights deals
Today, the British Academy announced the shortlist for the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, an international book prize, now in its 11th year, that “celebrates ground-breaking research-based works of non-fiction that have made an outstanding contribution to the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-09-12 00:00:56 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#book prize
#world cultures
#public understanding
#outstanding contribution
#11th year