From about 1890 to 1940, a half century of ultra-cheap editions of Jane Austen’s novels aimed explicitly at educating the working poor. Because these ill-printed and shabby versions of her stories never made it into the scholarly libraries that safeguard “important” editions, the hardscrabble category of her reprintings has remained invisible to modern historians and […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-02-04 09:49:29 UTC ]
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London Book Fair's 'What Works?' education conference will take a series of looks at educational issues arising from the pandemic. The post London Book Fair: Pandemic Issues Play Into Education Conference appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-05-14 21:02:00 UTC ]
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“Yesterday’s Tomorrows,” by Mike Ashley and “Sphinxes and Obelisks,” by Mark Valentine bring together works of forgotten “genre” fiction. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-05-12 16:58:38 UTC ]
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This is only the second time that these Hearst titles have been leveraged together for a joint program and sponsorship opportunity at this scale. The post Hearst is packaging its design titles together for a new educational franchise appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2021-05-05 04:01:00 UTC ]
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The arresting tale of a “lady pilot” in the mid-20th century is interwoven with the story of a modern-day Hollywood actress. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-05-03 09:40:22 UTC ]
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“Collision of Power” will be part memoir and part investigation into what’s ahead for the free press. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-04-28 16:45:36 UTC ]
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The Macmillan International Higher Education team, with 17 employees, is to be transferred from Springer Nature to Macmillan Learning. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-04-22 20:34:47 UTC ]
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Alex Pheby warns his readers, at the start of Mordew, about the “many unusual things” they are set to find within the forthcoming 600-odd pages. A cloud of bats made from diamonds. Clay figures animated by blood sacrifice. Hordes of feathered monsters, made of fire. Creatures that are born... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-04-18 01:21:02 UTC ]
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There is no clear path yet for nonfungible tokens in the book world, explains Bill Rosenblatt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
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When Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced it would no longer be publishing six of Dr. Seuss’s books which have aged problematically, the bookstore I work at in Scranton, Pennsylvania had a flurry of very concerned customers. People were coming up with stacks of his books along with an... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2021-04-07 11:00:00 UTC ]
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This August, Ecco will publish 'Afterparties,' the debut story collection by Anthony Veasna So, who died unexpectedly last year at 28. His colleagues, friends, and loved ones are working to honor his memory—including with the launch of a new fiction prize in his name at 'n+1' magazine. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Book Riot New Release Index allows book lovers to view ALL upcoming book releases in one centralized place. Learn more now! Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-04-01 10:33:00 UTC ]
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Writers and translators are debating how important it is for a translator’s identity to echo that of the author. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-03-25 12:00:00 UTC ]
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“Our collaboration is like a river,” Doyle says of working with her agent. “We’re in it all the time together.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-03-24 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Claire Thomas’s three female protagonists ponder their worries while watching Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-03-23 16:59:08 UTC ]
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A branch of The Works is to open in Edinburgh's Straiton Retail Park, coinciding with the reopening of bookshops across Scotland on 26th April, The Bookseller can report. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-22 06:49:48 UTC ]
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Hodder Education's Robert Sulley is retiring after nearly two decades with the company. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-16 07:21:07 UTC ]
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Racist policy choices ultimately deprive society as a whole, writes Heather McGhee. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-03-12 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Kitty and Alex Tait, Claire Finney and Gurdeep Loyal have made the shortlist for the Jane Grigson Trust Award 2021. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-22 08:46:30 UTC ]
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Three Oxford-based groups of publishing workers are launching a survey to explore the experience of working from home and how work patterns might change after lockdown. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-16 17:30:43 UTC ]
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The Seventy-Five Pages, out next month, contains germinal versions of episodes developed in In Search of Lost Time and opens ‘the primitive Proustian crypt’For everyone who decided to bite the madeleine and read all 3,000-odd pages of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time during lockdown,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-02-16 15:21:36 UTC ]
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