Gina Miller and Theresa May are happy to be in Bloody Difficult Women, but the Mail man wanted his lawyers to vet the scriptThe Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday have been banging on a lot lately about freedom of expression. An editorial declared it to be a “dark day” when the newspaper group lost its legal battle with Meghan Markle. She’d sued them for publishing extracts from a private letter she’d sent to her estranged father.I’ve got to know the Mail’s legal department quite well over the past few months – though its client’s commitment to freedom of expression hasn’t been quite so clear in my case. The Mail’s lawyers appear to be fixated with my play Bloody Difficult Women and have been bombarding the Riverside Studios theatre in west London and my producers with emails and letters. Paul Dacre, the Mail’s editor in chief, appears in it as a character, and the lawyers said Dacre would very much like to see a copy of the script to check it for factual accuracy. These repeated requests have all been declined.Tim Walker is a journalist and author. His latest book, Star Turns, is an anthology of interviews. Bloody Difficult Women begins its run at the Riverside Studios in west London on 24 February Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Get out your crayons and mobile phones. The Toys 'R Us holiday catalog drops this week. At 96 pages, "The Great Big Toys 'R Us Book of Awesome" is its biggest issue ever and includes interactive elements for the first time."The Big Book, as we call it internally, is done every year, but this is... Continue reading at Advertising Age
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Actor Ben Miles has been cast as Thomas Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company's... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Wooding left as part of a move to dismantle the remaining dedicated Sunday Express editorial team to create a seven-day operationThe Sunday Express editor, David Wooding, has become the latest top editorial executive to depart Reach, as the national and regional newspaper publisher embarks on... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-11-16 14:19:24 UTC ]
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Minnesota's first Black woman–owned indie bookstore has changed hands five months after owner Dionne Sims announced that she intended to sell. The new owner—a self-described artist, academic, and an activist—will identify herself at an open house event at the store next week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Freedom to read advocates in Alaska have settled a lawsuit against the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District in Alaska, which will pay $89,000 to resolve claims that it improperly removed dozens of books from school library shelves. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
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In “McNeal,” the playwright Ayad Akhtar explores the way artificial intelligence is disrupting the literary world and raising questions about creativity. Continue reading at The New York Times
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The American writer is 120 pages into a memoir about her relationship with the New York Trilogy author, entitled Ghost StoriesSiri Hustvedt has revealed that she is working on a memoir about her late husband, Paul Auster, author of the acclaimed New York Trilogy.The news was first reported in... Continue reading at The Guardian
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PW talks with the author of ‘Black Girls Breathing’ about how mindful breathing and other practices can help heal chronic stress and generational trauma. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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PW talks with the author of ‘Black Girls Breathing’ about how mindful breathing and other practices can help heal chronic stress and generational trauma. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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David Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson’s new graphic novel ‘Big Jim and the White Boy’ is an imaginative retelling, in comics, of Mark Twain’s ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.’ An 11-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Report finds that books with main characters from minority ethnicities or who are disabled or neurodivergent are written by those who do not share the protagonist’s identityMore than half of children’s books with marginalised main characters are by writers and illustrators who do not share their... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Tim Pearson, a powerful aide to Mayor Eric Adams who was embroiled in multiple scandals during a tumultuous tenure in City Hall, announced his resignation late Monday.Pearson, a former colleague of the mayor’s in the police department, wielded significant power over the NYPD and contracts... Continue reading at Crains New York
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The Association of American Publishers honors a Belarusian publishing house working from Poland in exile for the freedom to publish. The post Freedom to Publish: AAP Awards Belarus’ Januškevič Press appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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The Association of American Publishers has awarded the Belarusian-language house, publishing in effective exile from Poland, with its annual honor recognizing "courage and fortitude" in defense of the freedom of expression. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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We dig into the scope and scale of the historic wave of censorship attempts occurring today in the United States and talk with those who are doing the vital work of fighting back. Welcome to our Freedom to Read issue. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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As a key lawsuit in Llano County is set to be heard by the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, freedom-to-read advocates consider their next moves. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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With a hearing before the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans less than two weeks away, a host of amicus briefs were filed this week in a closely watched case over book banning in Llano County, Tex. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
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If you grew up in the 1980s, then you probably remember the Carmen Sandiego games and how they turned learning boring old geography into a fun, criminal-catching adventure. Netflix, Gameloft and HarperCollins Productions are bringing the Carmen Sandiego franchise back with a brand new game that... Continue reading at Engadget
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O’Connell comes to Saga from the flagship Simon & Schuster imprint, for which he will continue to acquire literary fiction and select nonfiction. Joe Monti, who founded Saga in 2015, has been promoted to VP, associate publisher, and editorial director. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The founder and publisher of Black Classics Press and BCP Digital Printing will be presented with the National Book Foundation's Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community at this year's National Book Awards ceremony. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
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