The former L.A. County prosecutor's high-stakes tale of crime, celebrity and the courtroom can be suspiciously convenient, but it's all in good fun.No one knows celebrity murder trials better than Marcia Clark, the former prosecutor in the L.A. County district attorney's Special Trials Unit. Clark's watershed case, the 1995 Nicole Brown Simpson-Ron Goldman homicide trial, became know as the Trial of the Century for O.J. Simpson, its celebrity defendant, and its gavel-to-gavel coverage on media outlets around the world. Clark and her DA colleagues famously lost the case amid allegations of mishandled DNA evidence and misconduct by the LAPD. In "Without a Doubt," her bestselling memoir centering on the Simpson trial, Clark blamed Simpson's acquittal in part on an American justice system that, among other ills, was "corrupted by celebrity." Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Film4 has acquired TV and film rights to Lynda Clark's sci-fi novel, Beyond Kidding, published by Fairlight Books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-29 14:42:54 UTC ]
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President Donald Trump had little interest in the fine-grained details of charges Meng Wanzhou faces for allegedly skirting U.S. sanctions and viewed the case with far-ranging international implications in transactional terms, John Bolton told... Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2020-06-26 16:55:49 UTC ]
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President and CRO, Rich Routman, talks to Folio: about his company's ascent as a technology and media company and where publishing should go from here. The post Inside Minute Media’s Bold Ambitions as a Tech/Publishing Company appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-06-18 16:54:52 UTC ]
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Book packager Glasstown Entertainment is being accused by former employees and authors of creating and perpetuating a hostile environment for people of color. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
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As thoughtful citizens we are hemmed in now by gigantic problems that appear as insoluble as they are menacing, so how pleasant it is to take an hour or two off to consider only the problem of the body that locked itself in its study and then used the telephone. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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I'm fairly new to the genre and historical fiction audiobooks have been an excellent way to introduce these stories into my repertoire. Treat your ears. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-06-03 10:38:40 UTC ]
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Jojo Moyes has written a story featuring the heroine of her bestselling novel Me Before You, Lou Clark, and exploring how the character may be coping in lockdown. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-31 14:08:36 UTC ]
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Leaders of content-to-commerce initiatives at three global news media companies shared in-depth looks at how those projects started and how they are Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2020-05-18 19:00:36 UTC ]
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Mikki Kendall’s bracing collection explores raging disparities and the limits of a movement Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-08 18:00:00 UTC ]
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ANNE PERRY’S ANTHOLOGY Odd Partners, a showcase sponsored by the Mystery Writers of America, is an entertaining and compelling hodgepodge. If the reader anticipates a particular kind of mystery story, the book will challenge expectations. The selections are remarkably diverse, featuring... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-04-01 17:00:04 UTC ]
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On March 2, Judge Orinda Evans delivered her third ruling in the long-running copyright case over college course readings, and recent filings suggest the biggest issue that remains is who will pay the bills for the last 12 years of litigation. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Andrea Camilleri’s posthumous novel follows two mysteries that at first seem incomprehensible. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-03-26 13:00:00 UTC ]
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The University of South Florida has created a coronavirus-tracking map that shows users both the cases and deaths that occur from the virus spreading across the world. The tool was created by USF Libraries and the GIS unit of the digital heritage and humanities collections. It came to be after... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-03-26 11:30:43 UTC ]
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Former “Blue Peter” presenter turned children's writer Konnie Huq is hosting a series of videos called "Science, Scribbles and Stories" to keep children entertained and educated over the coming weeks. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-25 17:40:02 UTC ]
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On March 19, lawyers from Hagens Berman filed a class action suit on behalf of consumers in the U.S. District Court in Seattle, accusing Amazon of a massive horizontal price fixing scheme involving its two million third-party sellers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer Stephanie Wrobel puts her own spin on the true — and truly bizarre — mother-daughter tale. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-03-18 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Deep cleaning is being ramped up at the News UK building, home of HarperCollins, after an employee of the Times tested positive for the coronavirus. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-11 20:24:36 UTC ]
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Wimbledon BookFest has been forced to cancel its World Book Day event featuring authors Sita Brachmachari, Konnie Huq and Karyn Parsons, because of a local coronavirus case. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-04 10:24:07 UTC ]
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Each of the American author’s 56 novels was a bestseller and her fiction was extolled by writers from Scott Turow to David Foster WallaceMary Higgins Clark, the “Queen of Suspense” who topped charts with each of her 56 novels, has died at the age of 92.Simon & Schuster president Carolyn... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-02-03 11:54:59 UTC ]
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Her tales of danger and deliverance made her one of the most successful crime writers of all time. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-02-01 03:09:08 UTC ]
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