From Grey’s Anatomy, which premiered 19 seasons ago, to now, Rhimes rarely misses the mark For decades, television held the period drama to the rule of three Ms: make it love-shy, make it British, make it unapologetically white. Anything that fell short of this standard risked never making it to air.When Netflix announced plans to develop a one-hour show based on the Bridgerton novel series in 2018, they appeared to have it all wrong. Not only was bestselling author Julia Quinn – a New Englander! – playing Jane Austen and spilling sex all over the page, but her adaptation would feature a multiracial cast. It had all the ingredients of a giant flop, and might well have been if someone other than Shonda Rhimes had been stirring the pot. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2022-03-19 07:00:21 UTC ]
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S&S has pre-empted a "Netflix-worthy romcom" by Elena Armas in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-30 07:56:09 UTC ]
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Elbridge A. Colby considers what the U.S. reaction can and should be if China invades Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-10-29 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Ellen Clifford has won the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing with her book The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe (Zed Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-29 01:12:22 UTC ]
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Kaycee Hill, Marjorie Lotfi and Yvette Siegert have won the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize for young or emerging Black and minority ethnic poets. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-28 17:18:52 UTC ]
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Narjas Zatat and Shirley Hottier have been named the first place winners of the Faber & Andlyn (FAB) Prize for new writers and illustrators from underrepresented backgrounds, as the award celebrates its fifth anniversary. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-28 11:33:27 UTC ]
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'The perspective of Indigenous peoples in the Indian and Pacific oceans' give 'Waves Across the South' distinction, say British Academy jurors. The post Sujit Sivasundaram Wins the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-10-27 11:40:47 UTC ]
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News and Events (c) Rama, Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr NORMAN, OKLA. – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Tuesday evening that Boubacar Boris Diop is the 27th... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2021-10-26 21:56:54 UTC ]
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Cambridge historian Sujit Sivasundaram's "truly powerful" book Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire (William Collins) has won the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-26 09:16:59 UTC ]
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Luke Kennard, Caleb Femi and Nicole Sealey have won the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-25 19:03:13 UTC ]
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Thriller author Rachel McLean has won the £20,000 Kindle Storyteller Award for her novel The Corfe Castle Murders after a "record number" of submissions. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-23 09:39:42 UTC ]
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Lucy Caldwell has won the BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University, a prize she has been nominated for three times. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-20 02:07:31 UTC ]
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Journalist and writer Darren Boyle has won Capital Crime's Amazon Publishing New Voices Award for his thriller The Black Pool, which is set in contemporary Dublin and follows a journalist who ventures deep into the murky world of gang-organised tiger raids. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-19 15:51:36 UTC ]
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Calling Antje Rávik Strubel's book literature 'that opposes injustice and violence,' the German Book Prize 2021 jury honors 'Blaue Frau.' The post In Frankfurt: Antje Rávik Strubel Wins the 2021 German Book Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-10-19 00:06:56 UTC ]
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Sarah Winman has won the inaugural InWords Literary Award, for her "transcendent, utterly humane" novel Still Life (Fourth Estate). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-17 15:33:39 UTC ]
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Bookstore sales continued their 2021 rebound in August, jumping 60.1% over 2020, as schools and colleges began to reopen. Sales were $1.23 billion, up from $770 million a year ago. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Queen’s Gambit, Bridgerton, Mindhunter, Maid: Netflix has a track record of turning books into hit television series. And though popular adaptations often drum up interest in their source material—after the show premiered, Walter Tevis’s The Queen’s Gambit landed on the New York Times... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-10-13 18:00:07 UTC ]
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Korean author Kim Hyo-eun has won the Professional Children’s Publishing category of the World Illustration Awards 2021, with her book I Am the Subway, translated by Deborah Smith and published in the UK by Scribble. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-13 05:13:06 UTC ]
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Seán Hewitt has won the £5,000 Laurel Prize for nature and ecopoetry with Tongues of Fire (Jonathan Cape). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-12 06:25:22 UTC ]
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Michael Rosen’s "timely" poetry collection about migration, illustrated by Quentin Blake, is the winner of this year’s CLPE Children’s Poetry Award (CLiPPA). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-11 14:31:18 UTC ]
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Hannah Chukwu, assistant editor at PRH imprint Hamish Hamilton, has won the Arts & Media Rising Star award at this year's Black British Business Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-07 21:27:46 UTC ]
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