Yesterday, shortly after Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate for president, picked Kamala Harris, the senator for California, as his running mate, Peter Doocy, a Fox News correspondent, tweeted, “But… you told me on Saturday…” That day, Doocy asked Biden—who was zipping past on a bicycle, wearing a t-shirt, shades, and a face mask, and surrounded by an entourage—whether he’d reached a decision yet, and Biden shouted back that he had. “You have?” Doocy responded. “Who is it?” Biden looked straight into the camera, and said, “You.” Later, Doocy reported on air, with a completely straight face, that while Biden “didn’t know the follow-up was coming, he did answer with a direct ‘yes’: he has picked a running mate.” Biden (obviously) was joking. Doocy took some flak from other journalists on Twitter, but his report was little more than the ridiculous tip of an increasingly breathless—yet not equivalently fact-driven—“veepstakes” news cycle. The Biden campaign, which proved remarkably impervious to leaks on the vice-presidential selection process, initially promised a formal announcement last week, but then pushed it back to this week. As many reporters ruefully noted in the interim, given Biden’s past form, even the later deadline was not certain to be met. On Monday, however, the New York Times reported that Biden’s pick was, indeed, “Said to Be Imminent.” Several Twitter users congratulated “Imminent” on their nomination (even though one said he’d really hoped it’d be... Continue reading at 'Columbia Journalism Review'
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Booksellers report strong sales heading into summer, with the highly anticipated new Harry Potter book among the titles tipped to make it a busy season. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster UK is to publish The Century Girls, a "unique, social history, female-narrative" by Tessa Dunlop. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Senate Rules Committee on Thursday voted to recommend that the full Senate approve President Obama's nomination of Carla Hayden as Librarian of Congress. If approved she will become the first woman and the first African American to hold the post. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two Christian bloggers debut on the Religion Nonfiction list, and Jan Karon claims two spots on the Fiction list, toppling longtime leader Wanda Brunstetter. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jonathan Franzen’s Purity is to be made into a television show starring Daniel Craig. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s been 19 years since the events of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” and boy does it show. The first images of upcoming West End stage play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” written by English playwright Jack Thorne and based on a story from Thorne and “Potter” scribe J.K. Rowling,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of JK Rowling’s much-loved books jump 133%, boosted by illustrated edition, contributing to 8% profit rise at publisherHarry Potter is still working his magic for the publisher Bloomsbury after nearly 20 years, with sales more than doubling over the past year thanks to a new illustrated... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Big Green Bookshop is to donate all profits from the sales of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Little, Brown) to local schools to enable them to buy books for their libraries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sandstone author Jorn Lier Horst has partnered with Norway's Cinenord and Danish production company Good Company Films to bring the protagonist of his novels, Chief Inspector William Wisting, to TV. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Production company Lime Pictures has acquired the TV rights to Dawn Kurtagich’s YA novel The Dead House. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More than 20 years ago, when Laurie Halse Anderson was researching the epidemic that inspired her first historical middle-grade novel, Fever 1793, she came across a stunning piece of information. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The new paperback of Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train (Black Swan) has hurtled to the Official UK Top 50 number spot, selling 59,093 copies for £224,947 in its first three days on sale. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Wolfson History Prize has appointed Sir David Cannadine, dodge professor of history at Princeton, as the chair of judges for this year’s award, and increased its prize money to a combined £60,000 (raised from £50,000 last year), split between two winners. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers have been lobbying publisher Little, Brown to change the date of the release of the eighth Harry Potter story so that chain stores can sell the book without breaking Sunday trading laws. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reviews editor Alex Crowley recommends 'Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea' by Mitchell Duneiera, a history of how the study of what came to be known as “the ghetto” in large part created the phenomenon itself. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The nearly 40-year-old publisher notified employees today that it's going out of business, citing the "rapid ascendance of digital media." The post Harris Publications is Shutting Down appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Atlantic Books title Distress Signals, a thriller from debut Irish author Catherine Ryan Howard, has been optioned for TV by Great Point Media-backed Jet Stone Productions. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Journalist, who was cleared of wrongdoing in relation to leaks from Sandhurst, has a deal with Harper CollinsThe Sun’s royal editor, Duncan Larcombe, is to leave the paper more than a year after an Old Bailey trial that saw him cleared of any wrongdoing in relation to tips about Princes William... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The “warts-and-all” autobiography of former England cricketer Chris Lewis has been acquired by The History Press, which will publish the memoir in March 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Steven Furtick’s latest, ‘(Un)Qualified,’ debuted at #4 on our Religion Nonfiction bestsellers list for the month of March, while five books with a presence in Hollywood ranked among the top 10 in Religion Fiction. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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