Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold dies at 57

Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic who richly chronicled the city’s vast culinary landscape and made its food understandable and approachable to legions of fans, has died. He was 57. Gold died of pancreatic cancer at St. Vincent Medical Center on Saturday... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with: #jonathan gold #pancreatic cancer

Other Publishing stories related to: 'Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold dies at 57'


George Hodgman, 60, Dies; Wrote Best Seller on Caring for His Mother

He was a leading magazine and book editor who found his own measure of fame with “Bettyville,” in which he also delved into growing up gay in a small town. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2019-07-22 22:58:23 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #small town #book editor


The Fire Last Time

THE TRAGEDY OF THIS slim, self-satisfied little memoir about the 2007–2008 financial crisis is not what it gets wrong. Indeed, four of its central arguments are important and exactly right: (1) that extraordinary measures and creative innovation and improvisation saved the entire financial... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-07-22 19:00:44 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #time appeared #memoir


21 Must-See Bookstores And Libraries In Asia: Critical Linking, July 21, 2019

Critical Linking is a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web sponsored by Libro.fm. “This ... Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2019-07-21 10:30:01 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #critical linking #daily roundup #libraries


Former Bloomberg CRO Keith Grossman Tapped as Time President | People on the Move

[caption id="attachment_81710" align="alignright" width="150"] Keith Grossman[/caption] Time appointed Keith Grossman as its new president in an effort to build out its leadership team, following the sale of the magazine to Marc and Lynne Benioff from Meredith Corp. last September.  Starting... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2019-07-18 16:48:42 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #audience development #senior director #bonnier corp #government executive #national journal #mcgraw-hill #associate publisher


The New York Times would like to have a private word with you

Welcome to the latest edition of Ad Age Publisher’s Brief, our roundup of news from the world of content producers across digital and print. Got a tip? Send it our way. Joining us late? Here’s the previous edition. A private word: Back in April, The New York Times announced the launch of... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2019-07-17 18:51:36 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #ground floor #regular basis #named editor #marie claire #publishing giant


Justice John Paul Stevens Had Some Things to Say Before He Died

Stevens’s “The Making of a Justice” is both a personal memoir and a meditation on the law. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2019-07-17 13:32:04 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #personal memoir #memoir


Montalbano author Camilleri dies, aged 93

Andrea Camilleri, author of the Inspector Montalbano series, has died at the age of 93. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-17 02:58:54 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #andrea camilleri


80 Matching Harry Potter Couple Tattoos: Critical Linking, July 16, 2019

An awesome daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2019-07-16 10:30:09 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #critical linking #harry potter


26 Of The Best Comic Book Covers Of All Time

Book Riot has talked about the best comic book artists working today and what makes a great cover in general. ... Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2019-07-12 10:35:23 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #comic book


Google placed 'Stranger Things' AR ads in 'The New York Times'

If you see advertisements for a mall that look like they came straight out of the '80s on today's print edition of The New York Times, fire up Google Lens. Those neon-colored ads are most likely for Starcourt, the fictional Hawkins, Indiana mall that... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2019-07-11 13:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #google lens #stranger things


Jonathan Stroud moves to Walker in six-figure two-book deal

Walker has signed former editor Jonathan Stroud in a six-figure two-book deal.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-11 03:23:16 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


Jim Bouton, Author of Tell-All Baseball Memoir ‘Ball Four,’ Dies at 80

A pitcher who had modest success with the Yankees in the 1960s, Bouton revealed the seamier side of baseball in a book that was a best seller. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2019-07-11 02:47:37 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #memoir


Are millennials really driving ‘cancel culture’ - or is it their overcautious critics?

Older generations argue that young people’s insistence on equality in all things – including books – threatens to stifle free speech. But is that always true?I wouldn’t normally air my dirty literary linen in public, but here goes. When I finished writing my novel Putney, about a 13-year-old... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-07-10 10:03:01 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #including books #finished writing #love affair #older man ##metoo #jonathan cape


Chuck Wendig on the Time He Enraged a Bunch of Tolkienites

What was the first book you fell in love with? Certainly it’s hard to say, for sure. I’ve loved books for so long! I remember a book called Our Universe, from National Geographic, which was this big unruly thing, and I remember being most captivated by their painted imaginings of what... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-10 08:50:05 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #chuck wendig #national geographic


Translation scoops Commonwealth Short Story Prize for first time

Cypriot author Constantia Soteriou has won the £5,000 Commonwealth Short Story Prize with 'Death Customs', marking the first time the prize has been awarded to a translation as the judges choose an all-women line-up of regional winners.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-09 20:13:50 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #regional winners


Documentary Looks For Most Beautiful Bookstore and How To Read More: Critical Linking, July 9, 2019

Awesome daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2019-07-09 10:30:07 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #critical linking #bookstore


Michael Seidenberg, New York City Bookseller, Dies

Michael Seidenberg, the beloved owner of New York City's Brazenhead Books, has died. In his later years, Seidenberg ran the bookstore out of his apartment, attracting the city's literati and bookworms. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #michael seidenberg #brazenhead books #bookstore


Johnson signs new two-book deal with Jonathan Cape

Ana Fletcher, senior editor at Jonathan Cape, has bought two books from Man Booker-shortlisted author Daisy Johnson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-08 09:17:38 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #jonathan cape #senior editor


Jonathan Lee swaps William Heinemann for Granta

​British novelist Jonathan Lee has moved from William Heinemann to Granta for his next two novels following “a closely fought” auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-07 15:12:04 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


Morpurgo pens refugee tale inspired by Jonathan Swift

HarperCollins Children’s Books will this autumn publish a Michael Morpurgo book about a refugee from Afghanistan, inspired by Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-03 19:34:21 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #jonathan swift #harpercollins children #harpercollins