Despite being set in the 1980s, David Simon’s new show seems spookily topical. It’s not the only TV series that has turned up in the right place at the right time...David Simon’s new series Show Me a Hero provides everything you might expect from a TV-maker with The Wire, Homicide: Life on the Street and Treme on his résumé.This adaptation of Lisa Belkin’s non-fiction book about Nick Wasicsko – a former cop who, in 1987, unexpectedly became mayor of Yonkers after running as a populist outsider – has, in the established Simon style, dialogue so real that it feels as if it was peeled off the street, and period images so richly composed that they could be auctioned at Sotheby’s. (It’s a sign of the high production values that the director is Oscar-winning Hollywood auteur Paul Haggis.) Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Digital books platform 24symbols has signed an international distribution agreement with mobile... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Earnings at Time Warner Inc. grew 24% in the first three months of the year despite a slight drop in revenue, as the company benefited from strength in its television networks.Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday that first-quarter net income was $720 million, or 75 cents per share, compared with... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2013-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins and Quercus have become the latest publishers to sign the Publishing Equalities... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Over the past decade and a half Tin House magazine, which began publishing in spring 1999, and Tin House Books, which started as an imprint with Bloomsbury in 2002 before becoming an independent press in 2005, have carved out a niche in the small press world. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The New York Times is one of the initial major publishers to unveil a Google Glass app, which will allow the currently scant number of users of the wearable device to access stories on the go. The app's audio component reads headlines and story summaries aloud and provides breaking news alerts. ... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hot Key Books has signed Finnish author Salla Simukka's Snow White Trilogy, which has sold... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus imprint the MacLehose Press has UK rights to The Truth About the Harry Quebert Case by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Aurum Press has acquired world rights in a new biography of Winston Churchill’s wife,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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World Book Night, the celebration of reading which includes the distribution of free books, has arrived. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pushkin Press has acquired two further titles for its new imprint, One, with editor Elena Lappin... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Caffeine Nights Publishing has signed a novel from columnist and author Garry Bushell, which will... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperFiction has signed a novel from author Miranda Beverly-Whittemore following an auction.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired at auction a new non-fiction book offering an alternative... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent publisher Linen Press has acquired Maureen Freely's seventh novel, Sailing... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster will publish a book based on The Everyday Sexism Project, a website that... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Murray has signed a new book from Ben Schott. Schottenfreude: German Words for the Human... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury has acquired the first novel based on ITV drama series "Doc Martin". Fiction... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins imprint Fourth Estate has signed a new book from Guardian columnist Tim Dowling,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In addition to being a master writer, celebrated American poet Robert Frost was also a master reader. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kimberley Walsh signs deal to write autobiography, promising to reveal what it was like in Girls Aloud. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2013-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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