After six years exactly, Dean Burnett’s Brain Flapping blog is coming to an end. It’s been emotionalOn 31 July, 2012, the very first Brain Flapping post appeared on the Guardian website. Exactly six years to the day later, here’s the very last one.To confirm, the Guardian is shutting down the science blog network, which includes Brain Flapping. Nothing personal, just more fallout from the ever-challenging modern media environment. And let’s be honest, what began with the Guardian boldly introducing a regular blog that took a more light-hearted, amusing/surreal look at science has, over six years, resulted in over 15 million hits, abandoning of the day job, two book deals, countless TV and radio appearances, and major Hollywood endorsements. Ergo, it would be a bit rich for me to claim to be hard done by. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2018-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After six years exactly, Dean Burnett’s Brain Flapping blog is coming to an end. It’s been emotionalOn 31 July, 2012, the very first Brain Flapping post appeared on the Guardian website. Exactly six years to the day later, here’s the very last one.To confirm, the Guardian is shutting down the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After losing ground to its rivals, Amazon is finally fighting back. Panos Panay argues the timing is just right. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2024-10-24 18:11:14 UTC ]
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Robert Caro’s mammoth study of the urban planner Robert Moses is coming out as an e-book this month, on the 50th anniversary of the biography’s publication. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2024-09-12 12:39:45 UTC ]
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More than one hundred children and adults walked through metal detectors and past bomb-sniffing dogs to attend Drag Queen Story Hour at a community church in northeastern Ohio in December 2022. Drag Queen Story Hour began in San Francisco in 2015 as an effort to encourage literacy and provide... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-09 08:55:57 UTC ]
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Designing a book cover is always something of an emotional roller coaster. There’s the excitement of nailing it on the first try (rare!); there’s the low of working hard on an idea, only for it to be discarded; there’s the struggle (every time) and the self-doubt (ever present) that come with... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-02 08:57:20 UTC ]
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Professor Jeremy Siegel talks about his bestselling book and how investment strategies have changed over the years.…Read More Continue reading at Knowledge@Wharton
[ Knowledge@Wharton | 2024-07-09 14:00:40 UTC ]
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For the “Star Trek” actor and author of the new children’s book “My Lost Freedom,” it’s all about green tea and antioxidants. “I drink it every day, all day. I am an addict,” he says. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2024-04-06 09:03:19 UTC ]
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A writer hoodwinked the internet into thinking the singer nabbed his book title but he’s not the first author to pull a controversial publicity stuntOn Wednesday, writer Gabriel Smith shared what at first glance seemed to be an email sent by the singer Charli XCX, asking if she could use the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-03-01 18:33:32 UTC ]
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The following is excerpted from Cold Crematorium:Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz, József Debreczeni’s firsthand account of his deportation to Auschwitz, from Hungary, in May 1944. * The long train, comprised of low boxcars with German insignia, was grinding to a halt. “We’re stopping,” the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-01-25 09:53:48 UTC ]
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In a rare public appearance, bestselling author Dean Koontz joins Times readers Jan. 28 to discuss his new genre-crossing novel, 'The Bad Weather Friend.' Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2024-01-03 19:00:35 UTC ]
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As with the printing press and the dotcom boom, initial frenzy and speculation obscures the lasting legacy of new technologies“Innovation,” wrote the economist William Janeway in his seminal book Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy, “begins with discovery and culminates in speculation.”... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-12-30 16:00:37 UTC ]
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To celebrate the launch of the new Guardian Long Read magazine this week, join the Long Read editor David Wolf in discussion with regular contributors Sophie Elmhirst and Samanth Subramanian• The Guardian Long Read magazine is available to order now• The best stories take time. The Guardian Long... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-11-15 05:00:09 UTC ]
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The road to publication for my first novel was not only long and winding, but also booby-trapped, and in places there was no road, just long empty gaps that could only be filled by time. I started L.A. Breakdown as a junior at UC Santa Cruz, in 1972. I was old for a junior at […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-08-23 09:40:00 UTC ]
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In July, for the first month ever, sales from the roughly 180 BookTok authors BookScan follows fell from the prior year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Welcome to Campaign's weekly round-up of the hires, departures and promotions across the industry. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2023-07-26 10:26:04 UTC ]
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With the rise of fan fiction publishing and TikTok, microgenres — genres that have defined and specific plots — have reached new heights. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2023-06-28 10:33:00 UTC ]
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On IAB NewFronts day two, digital content platforms and streamers pitched new ad formats (with a focus on artificial intelligence and shoppable content) in short-form social video and longer-form TV shows and movies. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2023-05-03 10:01:00 UTC ]
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Your eyes, back, and neck will thank you. In the ninth circle of hell, there’s a laptop, a rickety desk, a squeaky chair with abysmal lumbar support, and a 39-page white paper to be read.Read Full Story Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2023-04-29 03:05:00 UTC ]
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Long Rain’ is one of the best-known and most widely studied short stories by the American writer Ray Bradbury (1920-2012). Although Bradbury preferred to describe himself as a ‘fantasy’ writer, this story is most accurately categorised as... Continue reading at Interesting Literature
[ Interesting Literature | 2023-04-28 14:00:00 UTC ]
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The eighth annual Walter Awards Ceremony and Symposium took place as a hybrid event at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C., and online on March 17. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-03-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
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