Mark Shenton says he was accused of bringing the paper into disrepute after bosses found pictures of him on a gay websiteMark Shenton, the chief theatre critic of the Sunday Express, has claimed he was fired after executives discovered naked pictures of him on a gay website.In the daily blog he writes for the Stage, the theatre industry magazine, Shenton said he had been accused of bringing the newspaper into disrepute, adding that the editor, Martin Townsend, had described the pictures as embarrassing.Shenton, the paper's critic for more than 11 years, wrote: "The paper had been tipped off by a malicious third party that there were some private, personal (but entirely legal) images of me available on a gay website. I'd never seen or heard of the site myself so it was news to me."Once shown the pictures, he recalled that they were taken by a former friend in San Francisco 22 years ago.Shenton said there was "a certain irony" that the Sunday Express's proprietor, Richard Desmond, whose business interests once involved pornographic magazines and still include adult television channels, should be affronted by the pictures."It could be said that the only difference is that these are straight magazines and channels whereas mine was defined as a gay one," he wrote.He also pointed out that, aside from a thumbnail picture of him without a shirt, all the naked pictures of him were only available if someone paid for access to the website."In other words, people would have to go... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Solnit’s ‘Orwell’s Roses’ is the story of a life that doesn’t read like a typical biography. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-10-19 14:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has withdrawn a cookbook by Elizabeth Haigh from circulation, following claims from fellow author Sharon Wee that content had been "copied or paraphrased" from her book without consent. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-11 07:10:16 UTC ]
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In the nineteen-fifties, the Cory Book Service quietly connected a community. Then it was forgotten. Continue reading at New Yorker
[ New Yorker | 2021-10-05 21:58:03 UTC ]
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A systems outage which caused severe IT problems for Blackwell's is still affecting the bookseller's website a week after the problem first appeared, although recovery work is now underway. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-05 10:24:39 UTC ]
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden. It’s now 15 years since Cormac McCarthy’s terrifying post-apocalyptic odyssey, The Road, first hit shelves. The story of a father and son traversing a fallen US where an unspecified ecological cataclysm has destroyed almost all life on... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-09-28 08:53:04 UTC ]
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From the magazine’s archive: a selection of short stories and nonfiction from the magazine that have been adapted into films. Continue reading at New Yorker
[ New Yorker | 2021-09-26 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Elizabeth Day's latest novel Magpie (Fourth Estate) picked up reviews in the Observer, the Irish Times, the Sunday Times, the Daily Mail and the i this week. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-20 03:19:56 UTC ]
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Amazon is offering discounts on a swathe of Kindles and Fire tablets for Labor Day. While the price cuts might not be quite as hefty as those you'd find on Prime Day, they're still solid, and you'll save around a third on most of the devices. Each version of the Fire 7 tablet, which Amazon says... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2021-09-06 14:39:41 UTC ]
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The report, '2020 Public Library Technology Survey,' provides a current, detailed snapshot of how libraries serve as digital equity hubs. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-09-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Critics have dubbed Sally Rooney’s third book, Beautiful World, Where Are You (Faber), a “tour de force” with one calling it the author’s best novel. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-02 13:10:56 UTC ]
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His volume “Same-Sex Love in India” was regarded as a foundational text for queer studies in India and in recent years was cited in petitions to the country’s supreme court to end the criminalization of homosexuality. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-09-02 05:09:05 UTC ]
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If your Kindle has ads or “Special Offers” showing onscreen, it’s because you made a deal. You chose to save money on your Kindle’s purchase price by accepting the "Ad-Supported discount (formerly known as the “With Special Offers” discount). It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2021-08-18 22:51:00 UTC ]
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In memory of the Black Expressions Book Club and its impact on a reader always seeking out Black literary excellence. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-08-17 10:39:00 UTC ]
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An open letter, signed by more than 150 figures from the book industry, has condemned the abuse suffered by Monisha Rajesh, Professor Sunny Singh and Chimene Suleyman following their criticisms of Kate Clanchy. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-11 17:31:27 UTC ]
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Poet and teacher has apologised for ‘overreacting’ to scrutiny of book’s portrayals of autistic pupils and children of colourKate Clanchy is rewriting her critically acclaimed memoir after widespread criticism of her portrayal of her pupils, particularly children of colour and autistic... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-08-10 18:58:54 UTC ]
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Interviews Emilio Fraia’s Sevastopol, out this summer from New Directions, is the sort of book that beguiles and dazzles in equal measure. Consisting of three disparate stories—of a mountain climber attempting to scale Mt. Everest, a mysterious loner... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2021-08-09 20:31:30 UTC ]
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Publisher Picador says it is looking at changing passages in prize-winning memoir, which Clanchy intially claimed were not in the book at allPicador, the publisher of Kate Clanchy’s award-winning Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, is in discussions to update future editions of the book... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-08-09 15:36:04 UTC ]
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Trump was taken to the White House bunker during protests last year over the police killing of George Floyd. Continue reading at The Huffington Post
[ The Huffington Post | 2021-07-14 04:58:33 UTC ]
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American author Susan Choi has won the 2021 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award with her "luminous" story "Flashlight". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-09 16:07:00 UTC ]
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Last week, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex published her first children's book The Bench with Penguin Random House Children's. It picked up reviews from the Evening Standard, the Irish Times, the Telegraph, the Independent and the New York Times, making it one of the most reviewed new titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-13 20:19:26 UTC ]
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