The city's newest book festival, to be held at the Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles arts complex, will host four panels on July 20 and 21 as part of its programming, which will also include more than 20 exhibitors from L.A. and other cities on the West Coast. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
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Tom Jones tells the Hay Festival that his wife, who died last month, was the "most important thing" in his life. Continue reading at BBC News
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It could be second time lucky for author Anne Enright as bookmakers William Hill have her as odds-on favourite to win the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction next week. The bookmaker has Irish author Enright to win The Baileys prize 5/2 for her sixth novel The Green Road (Vintage) about a family... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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For magazine publishers looking to recoup lost print dollars, live events are becoming increasingly important as independent revenue streams. Over the past several years, titles like Cosmopolitan, Sports Illustrated and Essence (to name a few) have joined live event veterans like The Atlantic... Continue reading at AdWeek
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The National Trust is launching its first children’s book festival at Wray Castle in the Lake District in March. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Deckle Edge, which will launch in Columbia, South Carolina Feb. 19-21, hopes to fill the void left when the South Carolina Book Festival was cancelled in July. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The Guardian is organising a children’s literature festival – a free one-day event in London on 29th August, featuring authors such as Sarah McIntyre, Philip Reeve and Paul Strickland. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The Edinburgh International Book Festival will be a "global village" this summer with guests from 55 countries, its director has said. Continue reading at BBC News
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The Boston Book Festival is expanding with a free, day-long festival just for kids, Hubbub: Creative Commotion for Kids, at the close of the school year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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An ode to vegetables from a pioneer of the snout-to-tail movement, a culinary tour of the West Coast, and other titles to watch next month. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Edinburgh's international book festival is getting Stripped and ready with a strand devoted to comic books. Continue reading at BBC World
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Coming from the West Coast, Reagan Arthur was not always surrounded by people who thought much of a career in books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Following strife in Bamako, Mali, France's Etonnants Voyageurs has launched a new book and film festival in Brazzaville, Congo—one for all of Africa. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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New freedoms and the patronage of pro-Democracy politician Aung San Suu Kyi helped Myanmar host its first book festival, where once-banned books were openly on display. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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The Edinburgh International Book festival is beginning its 16-day residence in the city's Charlotte Square Gardens. Continue reading at BBC News
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A journey across the Pacific Crest Trail turns into an exercise of triumph over grief for Cheryl Strayed in her memoir, 'Wild.'Toward the end of Cheryl Strayed's memoir, "Wild," the author, who is in the middle of hiking 1,100 miles alone across the West Coast's formidable Pacific Crest Trail,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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The emergence of author podcasts as a viable and entertaining marketing tool is apparent in the success of three such efforts originating from literary Web sites on the West Coast: Brad Listi’s the Nervous Breakdown, Tom Lutz’s Los Angeles Review of Books, and Tyson Cornell’s company Rare Bird... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It is, in many ways, a world away from Canadas book publishing center in Toronto. But even three time zones, several mountain ranges, and vast forests away, the West Coast is home to Canadas second-largest concentration of English-language publishers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Thu, 19/05/2011 - 09:11 Novelist Sebastian Faulks, the team behind Peep Show and musician Edwyn Collins are to take part in the first-ever book festival at Queens Park in north-west London. The Queens Park Book Festival will take place on 11th... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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