In the memoir “Miss Aluminum,” the writer and former script reader for Jack Nicholson shares a #MeToo moment, and more. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-22 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Myriad has acquired world rights to Elaine Chiew's debut collection of short stories, The Heartsick Diaspora. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'A Fire Story' is an unflinching work of graphic nonfiction detailing the experiences of cartoonist Brian Fies, his family and their neighbors just before and in the aftermath of a devastating Northern California wildfire that destroyed their homes and all their possessions in late 2017. 'A Fire... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harper Inspire has acquired a fictional re-telling of one of the most famous love stories set in the world of books – the love affair between the US writer and poet Joy Davidman and C S Lewis. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Walliams’ next publication, a funny story entitled Fing, "dovetails seamlessly" with his short stories and middle-grade novels, according to his publisher HarperCollins Children’s Books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bart van Es wrote about a Jewish girl who was sheltered by his grandparents during World War Two. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2019-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A former editor of the New York Times takes an unsparing look at the decline of US journalismThis book about the commercial takeover of the news business is sure to make a lot of powerful people very angry. Jill Abramson takes an unsparing look at US journalism’s moral decline; as former... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Emily Barrett, commissioning editor at Seven Dials and Orion Spring, has acquired world rights including dramatisation rights to a book about life inside a women’s prison by a former prison art teacher. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The live theater war that NBC and Fox have been waging since 2013, when Carrie Underwood starred in NBC’s "The Sound of Music," saw its latest salvo Sunday with Fox's "Rent: Live," a sweet and energetic sound-staging of Jonathan Larson's 1996 Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning pop opera. For... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has acquired world rights to the story of Barrie, the puppy who was rescued from the rubble of a school in Raqqa in Syria by former British Army Royal Engineer and bomb disposal expert, Sean Laidlaw. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indian writer Jayant Kaikini, along with translator Tejaswini Niranjana, has won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018 worth $25,000 (£19,200) for the Mumbai-set short story collection No Presents Please (Harper Perennial). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BBC Books will publish novelisations of two "iconic" Doctor Who adventures by Eric Saward, one of the show’s longest serving script editors, later this year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In 2017, the small indie graphic novel house based in New York published a graphic novel about a down-and-out music producer that included a soundtrack. Since then, the publisher has released a series of graphic novels based on music and the bands that produce it. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A report showing that UK publishing has failed to reflect regional and racial diversity is a vital reminder that, despite all the initiatives, our work isn’t doneAs a young woman my hobby was reading, and it never occurred to me that I might be excluded from the process of creating books. My... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A 1980s popstar, a former women’s weekly chief and an engineer are all vying for the Costa Short Story Award with an all-female shortlist for the first time. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Despite concentration of publishers in London, only 11% of respondents identified as BAME – significantly lower than average of 40% in the cityA major survey of the UK’s publishing workforce has found that “significant progress” still needs to be made on both the numbers of black, Asian and... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indie bookstores aren't known for stocking a wide assortment of genre fiction titles, but booksellers are finding that it's time for that to change. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Once a ghost town, Facebook Stories has gotten increasingly more attractive to publishers. The post ‘Efficient’: Publishers are recycling their Instagram efforts for Facebook Stories appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2019-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Profile Books has bought the "hilarious and soothing" Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals by Guardian columnist Stuart Heritage. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Researchers suggest over-65s may lack skills to determine veracity of online newsOlder people are almost four times more likely to have shared fake news on Facebook than the younger generation, according to research published in the journal Science.On average, American Facebook users over 65... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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