Indie bookshop celebrating women's writing opens in Edinburgh

An independent bookshop spotlighting women’s writing is opening in Edinburgh today (6th August), inspired by a successful book club.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-06 19:47:21 UTC ]
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Last week, shortly after the announcement that JD Vance would be joining the Republican ticket, I was working my bookstore gig at The Golden Notebook when a woman came in and asked me if we had any copies of Hillbilly Elegy. I took a glance at the inventory, told her we did not, and started to […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Suzanne Scanlon’s Memoir Confronts the Stories We Don’t Tell About Women and Madness

Suzanne Scanlon’s book, Committed: A Memoir of Finding Meaning in Madness, is a memoir unlike any I’ve read. Scanlon returns to the landscape of the past, reflecting on her experience of being committed in the New York State Psychiatric Hospital while a student at Barnard in the late 1990s.... Continue reading at Electric Literature

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Joanna Pearson on Writing a Literary Whodunnit

Welcome to I’m a Writer But, where writers discuss their work, their lives, their other work, the stuff that takes up any free time they have, all the stuff they’re not able to get to, and the ways in which any of us get anything done. Plus: book recommendations, bad jokes, okay jokes, despair,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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UAE: Registration Opens for the 2024 Sharjah Publishers Conference

The 14th Sharjah Publishers Conference opens its registration for November's staging ahead of Sharjah's International Book Fair. The post UAE: Registration Opens for the 2024 Sharjah Publishers Conference appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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100 of the Greatest Posters of Celebrities Urging You to Read

The American Library Association has for nearly 40 years been putting out “Read” posters featuring celebrities and books. Lots of us remember these from school and libraries—my elementary school had the Shaq one guarding the reference books section. When I set out to compile a list of these... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Christian Publisher Editorial Patmos Celebrates 25 Years in the U.S.

The company, which is headquartered in Miramar, Florida, and focuses exclusively on Christian titles, has seen significant growth in the U.S. market over the past quarter-century, with the U.S. now accounting for 52% of its total business, a testament to the growing Spanish-speaking population... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Sharjah’s 2024 Publishers Conference Opens for Registration

The 14th Sharjah Publishers Conference opens its registration for November's staging ahead of Sharjah's International Book Fair. The post Sharjah’s 2024 Publishers Conference Opens for Registration appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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Margaret Juhae Lee on How Secrets Fuel Memoir Writing

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Envy, Obsession, and Instagram: On My Mental Breakdown at an Esteemed Writing Conference

It’s the spring of 2021, and the pandemic is beginning to slide away from us in ways that still feel impossible. But there is work to do. There is lost time to make up for. Even though I have a debut novel publishing this summer, I have been getting rejection after rejection for every literary […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Two Authors, One Subject: Zoë Eisenberg and Rhaina Cohen on Writing Intimate Friendships

Novelist Zoë Eisenberg and journalist-turned-author Rhaina Cohen have something in common: they both published books about extraordinarily intimate friendships. Their debut books published in February of this year with strikingly similar titles—Significant Others (Eisenberg) and The Other... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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ALA 2024 Opens with Applause, Determination, and Trevor Noah

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The Pentatonix singer and his husband say "How Lucky Am I?" parallels their own experiences as a married couple, including their dream of starting a family. Continue reading at HuffPost

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