We spoke with four librarians about how they create safe spaces for their students, and why it matters so much to them. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
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On this episode of Personal Space: The Memoir Show, Sari Botton interviews Matt Ortile, author of the memoir The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I’ve Made About Race, Resistance and Romance, published by Bold Type Books. Ortile writes about owning his identity as a gay,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-06-01 20:04:21 UTC ]
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Check out these bookish tools that you can incorporate into your life to keep up to date on the book world and stay focused on your reading. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-06-01 10:34:41 UTC ]
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Lionel Shriver’s novel is more determined to make its point than to make us consider what it means to tend a body for the long haul. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-26 15:48:36 UTC ]
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On this episode of Personal Space: The Memoir Show, Sari Botton interviews Stephanie Danler, author of the 2016 bestselling novel Sweetbitter, and now the memoir Stray, just published by Knopf. In the book, Danler poignantly tackles a variety of issues, including: the destructive nature of... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-05-21 17:00:57 UTC ]
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Remember March? You know, a million years ago? During the month in which most places in the US began to shut down and enforce social distancing, book sales, unsurprisingly, suffered, with one notable exception: audiobooks. The Association of American Publishers released its sales numbers for... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-05-19 17:45:32 UTC ]
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For about two months in 1970, ITV aired episodes of a bonkers science fiction comedy series based (oh so very loosely) on Miguel de Cervantes’ literary classic Don Quixote. The show, entitled The Adventures of Don Quick, follows an astronaut named Don Quick (Ian Hendry) and his sidekick, Sam... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-05-12 17:39:44 UTC ]
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On this episode of Personal Space: The Memoir Show, Sari Botton interviews Maggie Downs, author of the memoir and travelogue, Braver Than You Think: Around the World On the Trip of My (Mother’s) Lifetime about the year she spent traveling around the world, fulfilling many of her mother’s unmet... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-05-11 18:38:48 UTC ]
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Clean Prose, the London-based writers' co-working space, has announced it is to close as a result of "social distancing and the economic downturn" caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-11 07:15:50 UTC ]
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Every industry is experiencing a digital transformation. For some, the pandemic has accelerated this transformation. Others, like retail, travel and QSR, are trying to quickly adapt to the new criteria of our on-demand world. Consumers are permanently changing their online consumption habits,... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-05-07 14:20:39 UTC ]
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On April 1st, I sent the final draft of my book, a memoir that revolves around my relationship with my cartoonist grandfather, to my editor. It was also on this day that there were nearly one million confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide, almost 50,000 deaths, and thousands of overwhelmed... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-05-07 08:48:18 UTC ]
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I MET SARAH DAVIS-GOFF, novelist and editor, at a café in Dublin to talk about publishing, her recent novel, and the particular moment Irish literature is having. After our drinks — she had a soy latte, I drank green tea — she pushed open the door, exposing a scar on her wrist. “I got it […] The... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-05-02 17:00:06 UTC ]
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What will ‘the world after corona’ look like? When is ‘the world after corona’? As with so many things, we’re in the realm of speculation, of we’ll-have-to-wait-and-see here. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-01 11:24:41 UTC ]
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The Booksellers Association has written to Chancellor Rishi Sunak asking for a series of measures to support booksellers during the Covid-19 crisis, including allowing retail spaces to be "furloughed" and help to keep the supply chain open. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 12:49:34 UTC ]
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For Hollywood fanatics, Kilmer drops plenty of names and behind-the-scenes tidbits. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-25 13:00:00 UTC ]
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This is Personal Space: The Memoir Show, with Sari Botton. On this episode, Sari talks with Alia Volz, the author of reported, historical memoir, Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco — about being raised by colorful hippie parents who ran an illegal pot-brownie... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-04-23 20:00:24 UTC ]
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Innovation means a lot of different things to a lot of different people in a lot of different industries. In publishing, the word has typically been tethered to data-driven digital products, rather than ideas and ideators. But at Cosmopolitan, innovation is taking on a more complex meaning that... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-04-23 19:03:42 UTC ]
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In a 2-1 ruling released on April 23, the court held that basic literacy is “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty,” and central to “the basic exercise of other fundamental rights,” including political participation. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers are seeing a surge in e-book and audio sales of up to 25% as readers escape the lockdown with feel-good fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-23 02:30:27 UTC ]
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Vintage Books is prioritising different methods of measuring success during the pandemic, its marketing director Chloe Healy has said. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-21 20:41:25 UTC ]
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The National Literacy Trust's new Author of the Week series will kick off with Greg James and Chris Smith, authors of the Kid Normal series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-20 21:56:16 UTC ]
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