John Kerry: Trump Has “the Maturity of an Eight-Year-Old Boy With the Insecurity of a Teenage Girl”

Former Secretary of State John Kerry was on Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday and didn’t waste the opportunity to mock President Donald Trump’s frequent use of social media and his thin skin. The former senator from Massachusetts, who is promoting his new memoir, said Trump is the first president “who spends more time reading his Twitter ‘likes’ than his briefing books or the Constitution of the United States.” Kerry made the comments as he pushed back from an attack earlier in the week from Trump, who questioned on Twitter why the former secretary of state had met with Iranian officials. Continue reading at 'Slate'

[ Slate | 2018-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Crowdwatch: 35 Years of Radical Comics; Fight Human Trafficking with Manga

PW Comics World's bi-weekly spotlight on crowdfunded comics and comics-related projects. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Hungry Girl Diet' Tops Amazon a Month Before Pub

The upswing in preorders followed a promotional email sent by St. Martin's to the Hungry Girl subscriber list of 1.2 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Finalists Named for PW Bookstore of the Year

Booksellers from the Midwest and the West Coast dominate this year's shortlist for the 22nd annual award. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'12 Years a Slave' will be distributed to schools as part of World Book Night

Special World Book Night copies of '12 Years a Slave' will be made available to schools. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Portrait of a 40-Year Marriage, Told Through Household Items

Throughout her photo book Libri di Famiglia, Elena Capra creates a portrait of various mundane objects from the house in Italy where she grew up ? A TV remote wrapped in cellophane, a distinct orange plastic bag, a stack of tupperware. In doing so, she traces a subtle portrait of the couple that... Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2014-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Twelve Years a Slave' and the Oscar Effect

Sales of the movie-tie-in have climbed steadily in the lead up to the Academy Awards on Sunday—reaching back to holiday highs. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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WBN U.S. Adds 'Twelve Years a Slave'

Special WBN editions of Solomon Northrup’s memoir have been printed as part of World Book Night’s nationwide celebration on April 23. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An Important Lesson for 14-Year-Old Mark Zuckerberg

Over the weekend I noticed a link to a nearly 16-year-old New York Times article appearing over and over in my Twitter feed. The piece, written by Saul Hansell and published June 9, 1998, is titled "America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million." In fact, the piece gained so much... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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40 Years Together: Rolando Hinojosa And Arte Público

Although Rolando Hinojosa has won numerous awards during his distinguished career, including the 1976 Premio Casa de las Americas, he is especially excited, and humbled, to be named the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, which he will receive March 13 at the National Book... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'12 Years a Slave': Would it be a good classroom teaching tool?

Not only is the memoir by Solomon Northup now an Oscar-nominated film, but director Steve McQueen is encouraging schools to use the book as part of their units on slavery and the Civil War. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Steam's Linux game count explodes in one year, big publishers still absent

Since Valve released the first stable version of Steam for Linux a year ago, the number of Linux-supported games has grown more than fivefold.Valve's digital game distribution service now hosts 333 games for Linux, compared to 60 games last February. (Strangely, Steam's store page claims that... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2014-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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TV Choice sales hit five-year high as it benefits from closure of TV Pick

Listings magazine, which is the most popular paid-for title in UK, reported an average weekly sale of 1,374,813TV Choice has increased sales to a five-year high of almost 1.4 million, the biggest beneficiary among listings magazines from the demise of Richard Desmond's short-lived TV Pick.H... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hatchet Job of the Year goes to AA Gill for Morrissey broadside

Sunday Times critic honoured for 'expert caning' of rock star's autobiography"A cacophony of jangling, misheard and misused words … a sea of Stygian self-justification and stilted self-conscious prose … " AA Gill's caustic review of Morrissey's Autobiography has been named the Hatchet Job of the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Hatchet Job of the Year doesn't cut it | Alex Clark

This celebration of bookish snark, won by AA Gill for his Morrissey assault, is less daring and less worthy than it thinksIt's the middle of a wet, wet winter, unaccountably you haven't shed the pounds or learnt the cello as per the optimism of 1 Jan, and to make matters even worse, Valentine's... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Murray signs BBC journalist debut

John Murray has acquired the debut novel from former BBC News journalist Terry Stiastny. Acts of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook: 10 years of social networking, in numbers

Ten years today, the social networking giant has notched up some interesting numbers along the way• How Facebook became the world's biggest social network1.23bn monthly usersBy the end of 2013, Facebook boasted 1.23bn monthly active users worldwide, adding 170m in just one year. According to... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Who are the Next Generation of Good Housekeepers? New Editor Looks to Update 129-Year-Old Magazine

Good Housekeeping is a monster brand for parent company Hearst. The 129-year-old magazine is among its largest in terms of revenue, with more than 4.4 million subscribers. Consumers place enormous trust in the Good Housekeeping Seal. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Anansi Boys will be adapted for TV

Author 'really thrilled' that American Gods and Anansi Boys will finally reach the screenTwo Neil Gaiman books are to hit the small screen at last – his 2001 novel American Gods and the sort-of follow-up Anansi Boys.Gaiman confirmed on his journal that American Gods – which up to last November... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why this year's Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue cover is a great leap forward

The annual showbiz gatefold tableau, an Annie Leibovitz shot of the cream of the film world wearing funny-looking clothes, has finally overcome its past shortcomingsAwards season breaks into a gallop with the first peek at Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue, second only to the Superbowl as an annual... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Issues on the Ether: How Is Self-Publishing Maturing?

This week's Publishing Perspective's #EtherIssue looks at the debate about quality and changing perceptions of the self-publishing community in the broader market. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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