Veteran literary agent Susan Golomb, whose clients include Jonathan Franzen and William T. Vollmann, will be starting at Writers House on March 1. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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The Asian American Writers Workshop is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a series of signature digital events and a three-month fundraising campaign. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has added comics writer Amy Chu, editor Joseph Illidge, and fan fixture Pam Noles to its board of directors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2021 Digiday Technology Awards are recognizing the tech companies driving the digital media industry forward. See this year's nominees. The post Yieldmo, Quotient and InMobi join this year’s Digiday Technology Awards nominees appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2021-10-05 18:30:00 UTC ]
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The House of SpeakEasy addresses book deserts by bringing free books directly to underserved communities with their SpeakEasy Bookmobile. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-10-04 10:36:00 UTC ]
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The author likes small bookshops. So he won’t let the online giant sell his new hardbackThe plight of the high street bookshop, struggling against the power of the online giants, is a common complaint either side of the Atlantic. But not often do the prominent players, the authors and... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-10-03 08:00:23 UTC ]
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Review of “I’ll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House” by Stephanie Grisham Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-10-01 13:30:12 UTC ]
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When it comes to haunted houses, House Beautiful thinks the ghosts have gotten all the attention. To compensate, on Wednesday the Hearst title launched the first podcast in its 125-year history, a free, five-episode product called Dark House, which will explore the stories and architecture... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2021-10-01 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Bestselling authors including Bernardine Evaristo, Sebastian Faulks and Preti Taneja have called on writers to ask their publishers for translator names to appear on book covers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-30 06:26:35 UTC ]
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In rather heartwarming news, bestselling novelist James Patterson is working with Scholastic Book Clubs to tackle literacy inequity. On Monday, Scholastic announced that Patterson had donated $1.5 million to help launch “The United States of Readers,” a classroom initiative created to address... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-09-28 17:26:56 UTC ]
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The 12 winners have been revealed for this year's Creative Future Writers’ Awards, celebrating prose and poetry from underrepresented writers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-28 13:27:24 UTC ]
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And of course it includes a two-story library — modeled on the Bodleian at Oxford University — for his massive collection of books. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-09-28 09:00:26 UTC ]
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The New Atlantic and Southern Independent Booksellers Associations (NAIBA and SIBA) kicked off a combined virtual fall conference on September 27, marking the second year in a row that the two organizations have joined forces to offer educational programming, author readings, and editor buzz picks. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-09-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
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One of the greatest science fiction writers, Asimov’s work has had a lasting effect thanks to his prescient takes on technology, climate collapse and humanity’s future. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2021-09-24 15:01:23 UTC ]
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Doug Wallace has been appointed to the board of Andrew Nurnberg Associates International (ANAI). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-24 02:12:19 UTC ]
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Longwood University has revealed the five finalists for the 2021 John Dos Passos Prize, the oldest literary award granted by a university or college in Virginia. The prize, now in its 40th year, seeks to recognize the country’s “most talented but under-appreciated writers.” Previous winners... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-09-20 15:56:12 UTC ]
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John Murray Press m.d. Nick Davies and Bradford Literature Festival c.e.o. Syima Aslam have been appointed to the Creative UK Council. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-17 05:25:59 UTC ]
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Chimene Suleyman, Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Patrice Lawrence have been named among the judges of the 2022 Jhalak Prizes. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-15 03:48:02 UTC ]
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The author of The Fortune Men will now compete with five other novelists from South Africa, Sri Lanka and the US for the 2021 awardAlex Clark explores how the Booker shortlist tunes in to the worries of our ageJust one British author has made the shortlist for this year’s Booker prize: Nadifa... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-09-14 15:25:06 UTC ]
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Grisham, also a former top aide to Melania Trump, to publish memoir containing ‘surprising new scandals’ in October The former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, also a former top aide to former first lady Melania Trump, will release a memoir in October. Related: ‘Bring it’:... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-09-09 19:11:26 UTC ]
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