Debuts by Imogen Hermes Gowar, Laura Freeman, Fiona Mozley and Adam Weymouth have been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/ Peter Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, in association with the University of Warwick. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gennady Stolyarov wants to introduce kids to transhumanism. Is this the Snow White of the modern age--or something creepier?Can people really live forever? A children's book author has joined the growing chorus of transhumanist voices insisting that we soon may. That's right kids, you too could... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Book Awards is announcing expanded lists of ten finalists for four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young adult fiction. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The shortlist for this year's Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals — among the UK's top prizes for children's literature — includes several previous award-winners, making for stiff competition. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Printed book sales slipped 3% week on week last week, and were down 16% year on year as the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Jenny Roper Publication Date: Thu, 28/04/2011 - 06:55 German publisher Gerhard Steidl has been awarded the inaugural outstanding contribution to publishing award at his year's Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards. Steidl received the prize last night (27th April). He still independently... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time has joined a growing number of publications to sign a licensing deal with OpenAI. The ChatGPT creator will legally be able to train its large language models on 101 years worth of the storied publication's journalism, as Axios first reported. OpenAI will also have access to real-time... Continue reading at Engadget
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Last fall, around the time Britney Spears’s memoir The Woman in Me was published, I went to the Brooklyn stop of Liz Phair’s 30th anniversary tour for her debut album Exile in Guyville. Exile is one of the epochal albums of the 1990s, a Gen X classic; it came out when I was a freshman […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Before he began to write, John Cheever put on a three-piece suit and took the elevator from his Manhattan apartment down to the basement, where he took off his jacket and tie, and then began. Hemingway famously needed a drink to loosen him up. Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver has said,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Get to know the Nebula Awards for science fiction and fantasy writing, with outstanding, must-read examples to pick up right now. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-06-21 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Dionne Sims, who opened Black Garnet Books in St. Paul, Minn., to sell books by BIPOC authors in response to the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, is selling the store to return to school and focus on writing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
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World Literature Today Announces Finalists for 2025 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature News and Events [email protected] Mon, 06/17/2024 - 12:19 Top row (left to right): Samira Ahmed (photo by Erielle Bakkum), Hatem Aly;... Continue reading at World Literature Today
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John Muir harbored a different perspective of the American wilderness than most. Born in 1838 in Dunbar, a small coastal town in southeastern Scotland, Muir wrote in his memoir that he “was fond of everything that was wild” in his native country. His hometown overlooked red sandstone cliffs,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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The 36th annual Lambda Literary Awards in 26 different categories of LGBTQ+ books were announced. Here are the winners. Continue reading at Book Riot
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At the June 11 ceremony honoring LGBTQ literature, Catherine Lacey and Bryan Washington took home top prizes in an evening otherwise dominated by small and independent presses. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
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If you search for translated books all of them won’t come up in a library catalogue search. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2024-06-11 17:09:25 UTC ]
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Restaurateur Josh Niland and recipe developer Hetty Lui McKinnon scoop prizes in food publishing awards, which also honoured aid worker Zomi FrankcomGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailTwo Australian cookbook authors have won prizes in this year’s James Beard Foundation awards, dubbed the... Continue reading at The Guardian
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