Today’s news inserts itself into Pam Muñoz Ryan’s forthcoming middle grade novel, ‘Mañanaland.’ Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
Today’s news inserts itself into Pam Muñoz Ryan’s forthcoming middle grade novel, ‘Mañanaland.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The author’s new middle grade novel, Solimar, follows the adventures of a soon-to-be 15-year-old Mexican royal who can predict the future and must work to protect her country’s fragile natural world. (Sponsored) Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-02-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Irish writer Donal Ryan has clarified his comments about his author earnings, after being forced to return to his civil service day-job in order to pay the mortgage despite the acclaim for his books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Conde Nast's latest sales reorg points to the fact that legacy media is still wrestling with what the best approach to go to market is as spending moves digital. The post ‘Struggling with the right solution to a thorny problem’: In a platform era, magazines struggle to right their ad sales... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nearly every corner of Queens swung toward Donald Trump and the Republican Party in Tuesday’s presidential election, a shift most pronounced in Latino and Asian enclaves. But Gregory Meeks, the powerful congressman and chair of the Queens County Democratic Party, sees “no need to panic” from... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2024-11-08 20:42:01 UTC ]
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As libraries become public stages for social problems — homelessness, drug use, mental health — the people who work there are burning out. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2024-10-31 09:02:34 UTC ]
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This week’s Media Briefing looks at what publishers attending Digiday Publishing Summit Europe had to say about site traffic challenges and opportunities to better monetize page visits. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2024-10-31 04:01:00 UTC ]
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It was raining the day I met Elizabeth Wurtzel. She arrived at our offices wrapped in a wool scarf. I was a newly minted editor at Houghton Mifflin, and we were considering her memoir on depression, then titled “I Feel So Down I Want to Die.” She apologized for being late. She fished in her […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-10-02 08:55:10 UTC ]
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Picture a teenager in a suburban Southern California Costco, lingering by the books tables while her parents shopped. There, between the boxed vacuums and party-size clamshells of croissants, I first encountered the writing of Ha Jin. His short story, “After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town,” had... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-10 08:55:26 UTC ]
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The author of ‘A Black Philadelphia Reader,’ a new anthology of writing by Philadelphia authors past and present, revisits four riveting works by local women. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2024-07-10 12:05:50 UTC ]
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If you search for translated books all of them won’t come up in a library catalogue search. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2024-06-11 17:09:25 UTC ]
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This interview was edited for clarity and length and a shorter version originally appeared in the print edition of The New York War Crimes. The… Continue reading at The New Inquiry
[ The New Inquiry | 2024-05-16 16:16:59 UTC ]
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The decline was due in part to an earlier Easter this year, as well as the continued soft sales in the nonfiction category, according to Circana BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The noble but neglected Scribner Building on Fifth Avenue has renewed the lease for its last remaining tenant at a higher rent, marking the first good news in many years for the landmarked property where F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway used to meet their publisher. Apparel retailer... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2024-05-07 09:48:08 UTC ]
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Do you like rip-roaring science fiction books? Do you like movies? Then you are in for a treat in, well, two years. Amazon MGM Studios just set a release date of March 20, 2026 for Project Hail Mary, according to Deadline. It’s based on the Andy Weir novel of the same name, which was one of our... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-04-19 17:44:40 UTC ]
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Libraries across the U.S. are struggling to cover the cost of e-books, which have grown in popularity Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2024-03-12 14:54:40 UTC ]
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In “Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair,” Rosa Lowinger writes with compassion about the dislocation her parents experienced after leaving Cuba for the U.S. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2023-12-05 17:16:16 UTC ]
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Scottish author Margot Livesey returns with a novel that explores inheritance, clairvoyance, and consequences Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Since my first novel was published, at almost every interview and live event, I get asked a version of the same question. Usually people seem just curious, but occasionally there are notes of hostility or amazement. They want to know why, and often how, I write my female protagonists. The answer... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-10-16 08:50:29 UTC ]
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Writing literary fiction is a freeing thing—there are no rules, there is just a story waiting to be told. When I started writing my first novel, The Theory of Flight, I knew that I wanted it be a character-driven story that explored difficult social and political terrain in order to reveal... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-09-27 08:45:38 UTC ]
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