The novel assumes a different structure to probe the difficulties of going back. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
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Plus: an auction in support of a more diverse publishing workforce, a YA anthology to fight book bans, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-06-11 15:00:00 UTC ]
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As a city kid, veterinarian Amy Attas had big dreams of roaming the countryside healing animals a la the classic “All Creatures Great and Small.” Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2024-06-10 13:18:31 UTC ]
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As part of its efforts to force Spotify to be more transparent about how it pays authors, the Coalition of Concerned Creators commissioned a survey to discover how audiobook listeners felt about the service. It found mixed results. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Author of Anansi’s Gold, a nonfiction account of a notorious Ghanian conman ‘told with biting wit’, wins £1,000 awardYepoka Yeebo has won the 2024 Jhalak prize for her nonfiction book about a Ghanaian con artist.Anansi’s Gold is an “exhilarating journey” through the life and “almost... Continue reading at The Guardian
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As film and streaming studios scout comics of all genres for development, graphic novels also take inspiration from cinema—well beyond capes and tights. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
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As film and streaming studios scout comics of all genres for development, graphic novels also take inspiration from cinema—well beyond capes and tights. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Brownstone Boys, BLK MKT Vintage, Simji, and others release their first books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Google has updated some of its accessibility apps to add capabilities that will make them easier to use for people who need them. It has rolled out a new version of the Lookout app, which can read text and even lengthy documents out loud for people with low vision or blindness. The app can also... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-05-16 16:00:07 UTC ]
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Ahead of the UK festival season, more than 200 authors—including Naomi Klein, Sally Rooney, Natalie Diaz, and Robert MacFarlane—have signed a statement by Fossil Free Books (FFB) which puts increased pressure on investment management firm Baillie Gifford, sponsors of the Baillie Gifford Prize... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-05-15 18:45:43 UTC ]
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More Black Americans are choosing nonbelief as their "religion" and Humanism as their new identification, says Anthony Pinn, author of 'The Black Practice of Disbelief: An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of Black Nonbelievers' (Beacon, May 22). PW caught up with Pinn to... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookshop and arts centre run by Salmon Poetry is saved from closure after raising more than €60,000 from 700 individualsA bookshop and arts centre run by a prominent Irish poetry publisher has been saved from closure after a GoFundMe campaign raised more than €60,000 – enough to buy new premises... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-05-13 15:18:10 UTC ]
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Much like the peripatetic characters in her latest novel, the author understands the importance of finding permanence and a sense of belonging. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The UMG artists’ music returns to the popular platform after a monthslong dispute. Artists from Universal Music Group, which include Taylor Swift, Drake, Adele, Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish, will be returning to TikTok as the two parties have struck a new licensing agreement following an... Continue reading at Fast Company
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Digital media company Conde Nast unveiled a slate of new video programming at its NewFront presentation at Highline Stages in New York this morning, emphasizing its expanded efforts in the world of sports, news and live events. The company, which houses more than a dozen... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2024-04-30 18:00:00 UTC ]
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When the graphic novel remake of Ann M. Martin's book Claudia and the Bad Joke was the best-selling kids book in Canada earlier this month, it was time for bookworms to feel their hearts flutter with nostalgia. The original, part of the wildly popular The Baby-Sitters Club series, was published... Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2024-04-26 08:00:00 UTC ]
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The Poetry Foundation is funding a new grant program to help presses, while more than 70 former SPD clients have found new distribution partners. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
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In January 2016, I was an unpublished writer working on my first novel when I learned of an artist residency on a tiny island off the west coast of South Korea. Excited, I daydreamed of finishing my manuscript in my motherland, visiting family, and of course, eating an abundance of delicious... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-04-18 11:05:00 UTC ]
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Sales fell at 69% of responding retailers in 2023 compared with 2022, with sales of new comics periodicals down at 73% of responding comic shops and graphic novel sales down at 65%. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The report, 'Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis,' reports 4,349 book bans recorded from July to December 2023, with more book bans recorded during the first half of the current school year than in all of the last school year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Australian author is ‘incredibly influential’, but has had to survive decades of ‘cultural cringe’ and genre snobbery to make finally ‘a decent sort of living’Before parched and dusty towns across Australia became full of fictional sinister people; before the explosion of outback noir and... Continue reading at The Guardian
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