In the wake of Hugh Hefner’s death, the magazine’s former fiction editor shares how she got everyone from Donna Tartt to Margaret Atwood to write for herI am not the only woman who worked at Playboy and kept her clothes on. When I was hired as literary editor in 2005, Hugh Hefner’s basic recipe for the monthly had not changed much since the 1950s: insistent juxtapositions of high and low culture, the ingredients, as he wrote in his 1953 inaugural editorial, for “a quiet discussion on Picasso, Nietzsche, jazz, sex” at a cocktail party.Its DNA was spliced from Esquire’s, where Hefner worked as a young man; but the nudity gave it a daring few magazines had. By the time I arrived it was at once chaste, compared with what was on offer online, and sterile, given to an overabundance of models with big breast implants and big hair. The daring had to be found elsewhere. My task, or so I told myself, was to locate it in the fiction and literary pieces. Related: Effusive Hugh Hefner tributes ignore Playboy founder's dark side Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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New, fully-illustrated edition of JK Rowling's novels will see artist Jim Kay reimagining the entire Potter universe• Q&A: illustrator Jim Kay on the 'brain-freezing terror' of reimagining Harry PotterJK Rowling's bestselling boy wizard is due for a makeover, with the launch of award-winning... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The top three bestselling annuals in 2013 are growing year on year both in terms of value and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Figures from world's biggest bookseller trumpeted as sign of how self-publishing and smaller labels are changing the industryAs many as a quarter of the top 100 Kindle books on Amazon.com are from indie publishers, according to data revealed at a trade presentation by the retailer.A chart... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former New York Observer editor was known as cultural arbiter and was credited with cultivating style of influential paperPeter Kaplan, the former editor of The New York Observer who hired a then-unknown Candace Bushnell to write a column called "Sex and the City" has died. He was 59.Kaplan died... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BBC business editor calls for 'common decency on newspapers' amid criticism of Daily Mail for disclosing details of wife's illnessRobert Peston, the BBC's business editor, has criticised the Daily Mail for revealing that his late wife had cancer without calling her to check the story and before... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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London's new Australia & New Zealand Festival of Literature & Arts had a glamorous, clever launch on Monday. It takes place May 29-June 1, 2014. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Garth Risk Hallberg's City on Fire described by publisher as 'best American novel I've ever read'Fresh from selling film rights to Scott Rudin and signing a $2m publishing deal in the US, the novelist Garth Risk Hallberg has struck a "substantial" six-figure deal with Jonathan Cape in the UK for... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penelope Lively's recent short ebook for Penguin drew criticism for its brevity – but readers should not be put off the genre as a whole"Overpriced", "ridiculous", I feel cheated". Amazon reviewers haven't been wholly positive about a digital short Penelope Lively has written for Penguin... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book Country, the Penguin Group’s online writing community and self-publishing platform, has launched a curated page on Kickstarter, the popular online crowdfunding site, to highlight funding projects by Book Country members. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hearst Magazines president David Carey announced the hire of Toronto-based Chatelaine editor-in-chief Jane Francisco as editor-in-chief at company flagship Good Housekeeping. Per Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookseller has officially unveiled the final programme for its digital conference, FutureBook... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hearst Magazines named Jane Francisco the editor-in-chief of Good Housekeeping magazine, the company said Monday, succeeding longtime editor Rosemary Ellis. Ms. Francisco is editor-in-chief of Chatelaine, a women's lifestyle magazine based in Canada. She begins her new job Dec. 2.Ms. Ellis,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The literary magazines at a Barnes & Noble include Tin House, The Paris Review, Mad Magazine and comics, while a New York Times renewal offers a year for $1099. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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By Lynn Rosen It was a powerhouse session at our magazine keynote presentation this year at the Publishing Business Conference. We asked four top execs to speak to the topic of Facing the Future, and to share some... Continue reading at Publishing Executive
[ Publishing Executive | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mashing up the places, characters and events of various works into one shared universe isn't exactly a new idea. Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton universe imagines that most of the great fictionalized characters of the last few hundred years – including Tarzan, Doc Savage, Dracula, James Bond,... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oyster and Scribd let you read an unlimited number of books for a monthly fee, but is there enough content to make it worth it? Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2013-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The winner of the UK's leading award for non-fiction books, the Samuel Johnson Prize, will be announced next week, here Nick Higham speaks to nominated author Dave Goulson Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2013-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon.com has launched two new initiatives for its US customers – a digital literary... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Colleen McCullough is back with a family saga, while Louis Nowra exposes the underbelly of Kings Cross. Our round-up of this week's best book reviews. Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald
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Nosy Crow and Random House Children’s Publishers have three titles apiece on the Roald Dahl... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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