Bestselling Japanese novelist’s responses to readers’ queries published as a lengthy ebook, with an abridged version available in printHaruki Murakami is riding high in the charts again, after a digital edition of his latest work that stretches to eight volumes has raced up the bestseller lists.Featuring the Japanese writer’s thoughts on everything from jazz and cats to relationships, the book, which has just been published in Japan, collects Murakami’s answers to the queries he received online from fans earlier this year. The author had set himself up as a kind of literary agony uncle at the Murakami-san no Tokoro (Mr Murakami’s place) website: “After so long, I want to exchange emails with readers,” he said in January. Related: Hear the Wind Sing/Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami review – super-elliptical pop-noir Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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As has been the norm recently, the bestseller lists can’t seem to agree on anything. The New York Times bestseller ... Continue reading at Book Riot
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An inside look at the publication process for the author and rare book dealer’s latest work of nonfiction. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Every week, I look at the biggest bestseller lists and note the overlap to see the bestselling books of the ... Continue reading at Book Riot
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The new year has begun in earnest, but because the bestseller lists report on figures from two weeks ago, they’re ... Continue reading at Book Riot
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This week’s bestseller lists are reporting on sales from the end of December, a time when very few books are ... Continue reading at Book Riot
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At the Authors Guild Foundation’s third-annual WIT: Words, Ideas, and Thinkers Literary Festival in the Berkshires this September, acclaimed author Jamaica Kincaid spoke with journalist and editor Sandra Guzmán about her latest work, An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children, illustrated... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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We’re well into the holiday buying season now, and the bestseller lists reflect that. There aren’t any books that made ... Continue reading at Book Riot
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For the last few months, the bestseller lists couldn’t seem to agree on the biggest books of the moment. They ... Continue reading at Book Riot
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Vicky Ball expressed delight on X at selling two novels at an event – then catapulted up Amazon’s book chartsAn aspiring author who went viral after selling two books at an event has described seeing her novel climb up Amazon’s bestseller charts as “amazing” and “unbelievable”.Vicky Ball, a... Continue reading at The Guardian
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World Without End topped bestseller lists but was criticised for embracing nuclear powerIn 2019, France’s best known climate expert sat down to work with its most feted graphic novelist. The result? Perhaps the most terrifying comic ever drawn.Part history, part analysis, part vision for the... Continue reading at The Guardian
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The Chinese bestseller lists in August showed an unusual level of interest in newer works as well as the traditionally favored classics. The post China Bestsellers in August: Charting Summer’s End appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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The two bestselling authors who both started in TV discuss writing as a second career, natural justice – and what they really think of literary fictionIn the four years since Richard Osman published his first Thursday Murder Club novel he has consistently topped the bestseller lists, and now his... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Robert Caro’s mammoth study of the urban planner Robert Moses is coming out as an e-book this month, on the 50th anniversary of the biography’s publication. Continue reading at The New York Times
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China's April bestseller lists are starting to include more mental-health content for young readers, looking at 'insensitive force' and expressiveness. The post China Bestsellers in April: ‘Insensitive Force’ and Expression appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Invitation to Participate in WLT’s 2024 Readership Survey, by The Editors of WLT News and Events [email protected] Fri, 04/12/2024 - 16:29 Every few years, we formally ask readers to take a few minutes to tell us about themselves and to share their... Continue reading at World Literature Today
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