In Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara and the Sun,’ a robot tries to make sense of humanity

Ishiguro’s first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in 2017 is a delicate, haunting story, steeped in sorrow and hope. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

[ The Washington Post | 2021-03-02 16:46:21 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster Turns 100 With a New Owner and a Sense of Optimism

The milestone comes after a particularly turbulent period, when the publisher was put up for sale and bought by a private equity firm. Since then, investments have boosted morale and helped it grow. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2024-04-10 15:26:51 UTC ]
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The Sun loses £66m amid costs from phone-hacking scandal

British arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp empire reports near-£54m deficit due to TalkTV costsThe Sun lost £66m last year and its online audience dropped by 4 million readers as the newspaper continued to grapple with the fallout from the phone-hacking scandal.Total losses at the Murdoch-owned... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2024-04-09 14:02:36 UTC ]
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Six ‘implicitly optimistic’ novels make the International Booker prize shortlist

From books about disintegrating relationships and countries to a worker’s-eye view of Korea and a story of farmers in Brazil, the selected titles engage with current realities, say the judging panelKorean writer Hwang Sok-yong and German author Jenny Erpenbeck appear on this year’s International... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2024-04-09 13:00:09 UTC ]
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‘Unfurling tension and menace’: how slow TV like Ripley makes for a truly gripping watch

Elegant, luxurious, catlike … Netflix’s Andrew Scott-starring series is devastatingly unhurried – although not all viewers agree• Don’t get the What’s On TV newsletter delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe reviews for Netflix’s elegant new Patricia Highsmith adaptation, Ripley, have been... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2024-04-09 11:00:06 UTC ]
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Cloud Atlas at 20: What makes a novel tattoo-worthy?

Every author wants to write a book like David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. Two decades after it first hit the shelves, the author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow celebrates its daring, dazzling appealPity the writer who believes they have written the next Cloud Atlas! A literary agent once... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2024-04-06 10:00:31 UTC ]
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Measurement Companies Are Making ‘Big Data’ Moves Ahead of NewFronts and Upfronts

Measurement companies are looking to measure up ahead of the upfront season, with Nielsen making "big data" announcements and the Joint Industry Committee (JIC) certifying Comscore and VideoAmp. To explain exactly what's going on in measurement, ADWEEK went to great... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2024-04-04 19:17:06 UTC ]
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MoCCA 2024 Makes a Splash

This year's MoCCA Arts Fest, an annual indie comics and graphic novel festival held March 16-17, drew large and enthusiastic crowds to New York City's Metropolitan Pavilion. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Approaching 90, Pat Boone Still Makes the Case for God, Country, Grits

At last month's Christian Product Expo, the iconic crooner of the 1950's and '60's and a prolific author, continued to talk conservative politics while rebranding himself as a country singer at 89. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Lots of People Make Money on Fanfic. Just Not the Authors

Next year, SenLinYu’s Harry Potter fic Manacled will disappear from Archive of Our Own. They don’t want to take it down, but it’s the only way to keep others from profiting off of the work. Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2024-02-28 20:42:17 UTC ]
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Samuel T. Wilkinson: Humans are Meaningful by Design

A Yale psychiatrist's new book argues that God guided evolution and that the urge to form relationships with each other and a higher power is genetically encoded. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-02-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Mirror publisher’s boss warns print titles could become loss-making in five years

Reach chief tells staff to face ‘inconvenient truth’ over print but says digital will stabilise profitabilityThe boss of the publisher of the Mirror, Express and Star newspapers has warned staff they have to face the “inconvenient truth” that its print titles will become loss-making in as soon... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2024-01-23 08:00:43 UTC ]
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Quarto Delists from London Stock Market, Makes Tender Offer

The U.K–based publisher has begun a tender offer to acquire more than 11 million common shares as it delists from the London Stock Exchange’s main markets. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Encyclopedia Britannica once published a catalogue of humanity’s ‘102 Great Ideas’ – and it created more questions than answers

Mid-century encyclopaedias claimed the power to decide what counted as knowledge and what didn’t – much as online publishing platforms and social media companies do today. Continue reading at The Conversation

[ The Conversation | 2024-01-09 17:02:30 UTC ]
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‘Where does the bot end and human begin?’: what the legendary @Horse_ebooks can teach us about AI

By reusing and repurposing existing writing into viral fragments on Twitter, the account functioned like today’s chatbots. The Guardian spoke to Jacob Bakkila, the human behind the accountMore than a decade before an AI-powered chatbot could do your homework, help you make dinner or pass the bar... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2024-01-03 15:00:04 UTC ]
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A sense of place: Brooklyn writers on why they love the borough

Novelists in Brooklyn draw inspiration from the New York borough’s cast of thousands, and particularly from its idiosyncratic neighborhoods. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2023-12-21 19:46:00 UTC ]
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Dhonielle Clayton Is Working to Make the Book World More Diverse

Her solution? A packaging business that sells ideas for commercial genre fiction featuring characters from broadly diverse backgrounds. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2023-12-10 10:00:31 UTC ]
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Arkane Lyon is making a Blade game and we're all very excited

Arkane Lyon, the developer of Deathloop, is making a game based on Marvel’s resident vampire hunter Blade. There’s a trailer, but it’s just a cinematic with no gameplay. Still, this is very exciting news as Arkane Lyon is the talented team behind Prey and the Dishonored 2. It also made the... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2023-12-08 03:21:48 UTC ]
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Arundhati Roy calls the siege of Gaza “a crime against humanity.”

In a video address to the Munich Literature Festival yesterday, the human rights activist and Booker Prize-winning author of The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy made a powerful speech in solidarity with the Gazan people, and with the millions around the world marching for a ceasefire. Roy—who... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-11-17 17:42:49 UTC ]
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PRH Makes More Small Gains in Diversifying Its Workforce

Penguin Random House's annual update on its workforce demographics showed modest progress in adding more employees from BIPOC groups despite a rise in hiring of new white workers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Column: She set out to build robots. She ended up exposing big tech

Joy Buolamwini, author of "Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines," joins the L.A. Times Book Club on Nov. 14. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-11-03 00:31:12 UTC ]
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