For eight years, the journalist Roberto Saviano has faced constant threat of death for exposing the secrets of the Naples mafia in his book Gomorrah. Is the price of life under armed guard too much for a writer to pay?As a young writer growing up in Caserta, a suburb of Naples, I felt myself getting more and more angry. There was a war going on between two mafia clans for control of the territory, and violence between them spilled into the streets. I wanted to tell the world what this war zone was like: the victims’ families tearing their clothes, the stink of piss from a man who knew he was going to die and couldn’t control his fear, people shot in the street because they looked like the intended victim. I got to know the workers in industries run by the Camorra. I got to know the messengers, the look-outs who worked for the clan. I read court records, news reports, trial transcripts. I pulled their stories together, the stories of my neighbourhood, and published a book called Gomorrah. Something about it touched a nerve. It became an instant bestseller – so many people bought it that the Camorra couldn’t ignore it.Not long after the book came out in 2006, someone left a leaflet in my mother’s postbox. I was living in Naples, but she was still in Caserta. It showed a photograph of me, with a pistol to my head, and the word “Condemned”. Soon afterwards, I was invited to give an address at a gala to inaugurate the new school year in the town of Casal di Principe, home of... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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The report, 'Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis,' reports 4,349 book bans recorded from July to December 2023, with more book bans recorded during the first half of the current school year than in all of the last school year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Censorship is surging thanks to an organised rightwing minority targeting books on LGBTQ and Black characters and issues“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door,” warns a character in Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s dystopian vision of an America where books are considered so dangerous they... Continue reading at The Guardian
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The five-year-old International Excellence Award-winning 'Inspiring Readers' program reaches nearly 300,000 students in the new school year. The post Book Aid International: Back to School Reading for 290,883 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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We checked in with a number of publishers and educational companies to see how their distance learning efforts are going, and what summer and a new school year might look like. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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In time for the new school year, Follett Corp. is rolling out Follett Book eFairs, an online expansion of the company’s book fairs business, which debuted in fall 2017. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Erin Morgenstern, author of the international bestseller The Night Circus, is publishing a "magical, timeless and wholly original" love story in November next year with Harvill Secker. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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In a timely partnership for the school year, international publisher McGraw-Hill and ebook-and-print bundler iFlipd pilot a $15-per-week textbook rental. The post Industry Notes: McGraw-Hill and iFlipd Pilot a Weekly Rental Ebook+Print Textbook Program appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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School librarians and teachers weigh in on their must-have items for the new school year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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A book being billed as a Dutch 'Narcos,' written by the sister of the country's most notorious criminals, was an instant bestseller there. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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We check in with the school and library scenes for fall 2016, with features on graphic novels, how teachers start the school year and engender lifelong reading habits, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The heavily annotated reissue of Adolf Hitler’s propaganda work Mein Kampf has become an instant bestseller in Germany. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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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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Europa Editions has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to 'The Life of the Elves,' the new novel by Muriel Barbery, author of the international bestseller, 'The Elegance of the Hedgehog.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Books creating buzz around the globe this week include a bestseller by a Dutch author who draws on her own life in her debut; a "mum-lit" novel by a Spanish author known for her YA; and the latest from the international bestseller who wrote 'The Ingredients of Love.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Novel, which imagines a world where Muslim fundamentalists rule France, sells 120,000 copies in five days to top country’s book chartsRead the Guardian’s review of SoumissionMichel Houellebecq’s controversial new novel Soumission, in which France is governed by the “Muslim Fraternity” party,... Continue reading at The Guardian
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For eight years, the journalist Roberto Saviano has faced constant threat of death for exposing the secrets of the Naples mafia in his book Gomorrah. Is the price of life under armed guard too much for a writer to pay?As a young writer growing up in Caserta, a suburb of Naples, I felt myself... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Everything about this is perfect—even the weird new lightsaber.There are a huge number of things that make Star Wars unique in terms of how movies are marketed—but one that doesn't get discussed much is the fact that the series' posters and one-sheets, rather than being photoshopped assemblages... Continue reading at Fast Company
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