Comic fairytale was written in the weeks since the November presidential election and aims to offer readers the ‘consolation of savage satire’In reply to Donald Trump’s election victory – and in lightning quick time – novelist Howard Jacobson has delivered a comic fairytale that the Man Booker prize winner hopes not only explains why Trump won, but provides the “consolation of savage satire”.Pussy is set to be published in April by Jonathan Cape, and was written by The Finkler Question author in what he described as “a fury of disbelief” in the two months after the November result. A departure from his usual contemporary fiction, the 50,000 word novella tells the story of Prince Fracassus, heir to the Duchy of Origen, famed for its golden-gated skyscrapers and casinos, who passes his boyhood watching reality TV shows and fantasising about sex workers. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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This year’s fifth anniversary FutureBook Conference brings together more than 50 speakers from across the media world for a day of reckoning, realisation and revivification. It will, to borrow from a famous beer advert, refresh the parts other digital and publishing events do not reach. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comic The Phoenix is collaborating with big-name children’s authors Philip Pullman and Chris Riddell for its 200th edition, which will be published on 30th October. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Lagercrantz has been contracted to write two more novels in the late Stieg Larsson's Millennium series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anthology of uncollected writings should secure a reappraisal of notorious occultist, says publisherAleister Crowley, the occultist once dubbed the “wickedest man in the world”, is due for a reassessment as a short-story writer, according to a new anthology of his uncollected writing which... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reviews editor Seth Satterlee recommends Nisid Hajari's riveting account of the horrific bloodshed that overcame India during partition in 1947. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An Oscar nominee at age 9, Quvenzhane Wallis is now getting an early start on a writing career. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2015-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 'Redeeming Love' author and recent recipient of the AFCW Lifetime Achievement Award reveals the benefits of working in the Christian fiction market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Karen Joy Fowler and Karl Ove Knausgaard have made the shortlist for the biennial £25,000 Warwick Prize for Writing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dodo Ink has bought a literary erotic novella by Monique Roffey about a married couple whose relationship is going stale until they meet a mysterious femme fatale. UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, were acquired from Isobel Dixon at Blake Friedmann. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"I’d be unable to distinguish between what is me and what is Lizzie in the book; Lizzie’s memories appear in my mind as vaguely and as vividly as my own." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We asked our readers which traditional book authors they'd like to see writing comics. Here are a few of their suggestions. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lately, lots of traditional book authors have been writing comic books. What author do you wish would write a comic? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster's Threshold Editions will publish a new, untitled book by Donald Trump October 27. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Slate piece on first-person writing has prompted debate in the digital media community. We asked editors at BuzzFeed, Jezebel and other leading sites to weigh in on the importance of such pieces – and why there is a gender divideOn Monday, Laura Bennett’s Slate piece on the boom of... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It has been a bit more than nine years since David Foster Wallace delivered “Federer as Religious Experience,” the Magna Carta of what has become one of the most popular genres in sports journalism: the Roger Federer think piece. The now-classic essay, penned for the short-lived New York Times... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2015-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reviews editor Annie Coreno recommends 'How to Write a Thesis' by Umberto Eco, translated into English for the first time this year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Debut novelist Ruth Galm received upwards of 60 rejections for her debut novel, "Into the Valley." But after years of reworking the book, it's finally out this month. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Words Without Borders featured nine new translations from Indonesia in advance of Indonesia's turn as Guest of Honor at the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair. The post Sample New Writing from Indonesia at Words Without Borders appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The peer-review site for budding authors, which generated publishing contracts for some of its members, is to close at the end of SeptemberAuthors are mourning the closure of Authonomy, the online community for would-be writers set up by HarperCollins seven years ago as a way to source new... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Almost one year after SparkPoint Studio acquired the hybrid publisher She Writes Press, the purchase is providing the type of synergy that SparkPoint CEO Crystal Patriarche had hoped for. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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