On publication in January, Iranian-Jamaican Brooklynite Mateo Askaripour’s Black Buck became an instant New York Times bestseller. Described as “a crackling, satirical début novel”, and informed by the author’s own experiences in the tech world, the book has been compared to The Great Gatsby (NPR) and comes with the endorsement of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead, who called it “a high-wire act full of verve and dark, comic energy”. We spoke to Askaripour about sales, craft, liberation and writing for a Black readership. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2021-04-09 04:51:31 UTC ]
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On publication in January, Iranian-Jamaican Brooklynite Mateo Askaripour’s Black Buck became an instant New York Times bestseller. Described as “a crackling, satirical début novel”, and informed by the author’s own experiences in the tech world, the book has been compared to The Great Gatsby... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-04-09 04:51:31 UTC ]
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Tom Fleming, senior vice president of acquisition, Adstra Digital media has forever altered the ad industry by creating new ways of reaching and engaging consumers. For a long time, digital advertising has stood separate from older offline tactics in terms of execution, organization, funding... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2024-06-26 13:42:23 UTC ]
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In WEIRD BLACK GIRLS, Elwin Cotman delivers seven short stories that go long on the absurdity and anxiety of modern Black life. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-04-16 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Guthrie is now a best-selling author with "Mostly What God Does," a manual for people on how to use faith in their everyday lives. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2024-02-23 11:00:15 UTC ]
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It’s that spooky frisson that makes you, for a split second, want to throw your book across the room. Or chuckle. Or flail, blindly, for the familiar barrier between storyworld and readerworld—you know, your world. There’s nothing as electric as an experimental flourish executed well, and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-07-06 08:52:45 UTC ]
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As books become intellectual property assets, publishers become asset managers trying to future-proof their toxic investmentsThe news that many of Roald Dahl’s books had been edited by the publisher Puffin to excise “offensive references to gender and race” has unleashed a brouhaha among the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-03-09 11:20:19 UTC ]
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For this installment in a series of interviews with contemporary poets, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with Tongo Eisen-Martin. Eisen-Martin is the Poet Laureate of San Francisco, California. He is the author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books, 2017), which was... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-12-01 09:49:18 UTC ]
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“Black Buck” is alternately sly and sweet, a work of cultural criticism that laments and celebrates the power of money. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-04 11:03:33 UTC ]
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The themes of the 2019 Digital Content NewFronts all felt very familiar: Digital publishers spoke profusely about brand safety, original programming and scale. They are the same themes that will likely dominate the upfronts later this month, when TV networks pitch their new programming and ad... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers are preparing to hit the Christmas market hard in 2018 with a range of giftable quizzing titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Andrew Tuck, editor of global affairs and lifestyle magazine Monocle, has said that “promiscuous" readers are irrelevant to the company's bottom line, which is bolstered by pursuing meaningful relationships with readers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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CANNES, France--Being able to effectively target an audience is the ultimate quest of any digital media company. That's why Gannett, publisher of USA Today, more than 100 local newspapers and a dozen national digital sites, is looking to a new product to connect brands and users. We caught up... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The books in the publisher's new Artisinal Kitchen line are priced modestly for the publisher and the category, at $12.95, and are intended to appeal to new readers...and make it into more retail outlets. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google, Facebook, et al are in reality media companies and must accept the responsibilities that go with it Attention, like snow, comes in two varieties; the fun, beautiful kind, and the “wrong” kind, the kind that stops trains and freezes democracy. Recently the seemingly unstoppable digital... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After years of writing about radicalization and terrorism in the Middle East, Arab authors are now in the spotlight in France as readers try to understand the recent Paris attacks. The post French Readers Put Arab Authors on the Bestseller List appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An eight-question online quiz helped People StyleWatch publish its largest September issue ever this year in terms of ad pages and revenue. But it might also confuse readers about what's advertising and what's editorial.The quiz, "Meet Your Celeb Style Twin," asks readers eight questions about... Continue reading at Advertising Age
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We are now living in a history glut; the Internet has muddled the line between past and present. As our past gets closer and closer to the present and the line separating our now from our then dissolves, we're approaching an odd sort of asymptote. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hilton Als' 'White Girls' is a magnificent collection of essays that mixes criticism and memoir, fiction and nonfiction.Hilton Als' "White Girls" is as much about white girls as the author's previous effort "The Women" was about femininity — which is to say quite a lot and not at all. Like its... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why does HarperCollins need a VP of Innovation? Ana Maria Allessi, who holds that very title, tells us about a future in which books look a lot like apps. Ana Maria Allessi is somewhat of an oddity, for someone who’s worked at a publishing house for almost 13 years. While publishing is rife... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Delve deeper into the series as we do a close reading of the first lines and last lines of each Harry Potter book in this iconic and magical series. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2019-11-15 11:37:59 UTC ]
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