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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Hachette Children’s Group has acquired two YA novels-in-verse from Dean Atta, including a "must-read queer romance" publishing in 2021. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-24 01:40:21 UTC ]
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The Bookseller has been sold just three times in its 162-year history; the first time in 1998 by the founding Whitaker family to VNU (now better known as Nielsen), the second time in 2010 to Nigel Roby, and then, as announced last week, to the publisher of the Stage magazine. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-14 02:02:55 UTC ]
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Among the picks: Natasha Trethewey’s poignant memoir, which the poet narrates herself. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-08-10 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Gayl Jones published her first novel in 1975. It was hailed by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and John Updike. Then Gayl disappeared from the literary scene. Now she's releasing her first novel in 20 years. The post The Long-Awaited Return of Gayl Jones appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading at The Millions
[ The Millions | 2020-08-05 20:30:18 UTC ]
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Two books recount the work to expand or restrict migration to the United States. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-07-31 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Two Black women are taking top positions at Simon & Schuster and Knopf. They talk to Rebecca Carroll about language, action, the power of books and the pace of change. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-07-30 14:00:29 UTC ]
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Faber is to publish a graphic novel adaptation of Jason Reynolds' Long Way Down, with artwork by Danica Novgorodoff. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-23 23:49:47 UTC ]
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Bookshops are relieved to be physically open again, reporting "steady" trade since raising the shutters at the start of June, with strong local support. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-13 11:30:32 UTC ]
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Feiffer talks about his new picture book and more, and Steve Inskeep discusses “Imperfect Union.” Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-07-03 15:06:58 UTC ]
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This morning I woke up to two very different pieces of news, yet they are very much connected. The first was the news that the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 11.1% in June, and as a nation we added 4.8 million jobs to the economy. Certainly it’s good news that the trend line has moved downward... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-07-02 16:42:10 UTC ]
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Last Tuesday, Wesley Lowery wrote an op-ed for the New York Times in which he wrapped the urgent media-industry conversations about diversity and coverage of race around our flawed prevailing definition of “objectivity”—a concept shaped, in large part, by white editors and reporters with the eye... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-06-29 12:20:58 UTC ]
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Check out the graphic novel adaptation of Jason Reynolds' award-winning YA novel, LONG WAY DOWN. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-06-24 10:35:20 UTC ]
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Check out the graphic novel adaptation of Jason Reynolds' award-winning YA novel, LONG WAY DOWN. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-06-24 10:35:20 UTC ]
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In 2012, the literary critic Suzi Feay lamented the lack of new lesbian voices in UK publishing. Describing what she saw as “a shortage of lesbian writers in Britain today”, she wondered who would follow in the footsteps of established authors like Ali Smith, Sarah Waters and Jeanette Winterson.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-22 12:20:04 UTC ]
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Young black men are often viewed through a criminal lens. A new book based on an 11-year-long study of adolescent men in a South African township upends the stereotypes. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2020-06-15 15:08:26 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton will publish two new standalone thrillers from Will Dean. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-11 21:42:12 UTC ]
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As Black Lives Matter protests take place across the world, the publishing world is rushing to support those ‘ignored by the mainstream’. Who is the mainstream, then?The publishing industry is stilted and archaic. I worked in it for seven years, and left due to reasons I can’t legally talk... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-06-11 09:44:22 UTC ]
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We've got suggestions for classics to rediscover, what to read if your brother is driving you nuts, plus ideas to help you process this whole Covid situation. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2020-05-20 12:00:00 UTC ]
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A debut novel reminds us that the earth itself is alive, and that even in our isolation we are members of a changing world. Continue reading at Guernica
[ Guernica | 2020-05-19 12:00:21 UTC ]
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Puffin is launching a seven-day online festival in partnership with Waterstones on 8th June, The Festival of Big Dreams, featuring a range of its authors and illustrators including Jacqueline Wilson and Nick Sharratt. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-18 04:40:29 UTC ]
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