In a day and age when computer data rule book ordering and midlist authors can be penalized for their track records, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill is trying to give Barbara Shapiro a fresh start for The Art Forger. It’s a tack that the press, an imprint of Workman Publishing, used successfully six years ago when it bought Sara Gruen’s novel about the world of the circus. Water for Elephants became a huge hit and was turned into a movie. Although Algonquin never claimed that the book, which was widely embraced by independent booksellers, was Gruen’s first, it did nothing to promote the fact that she had previously published two others, Flying Horses and Riding Lessons. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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Lauren Elkin’s debut novel Scaffolding traces the parallel lives of two psychoanalysts living in the same Belleville apartment 50 years apart. In 1972, Florence and her new husband, Henry, settle into their new home. But as Florence delves deeper into her intellectual pursuits, she begins to... Continue reading at The Millions
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The layoffs of Gleick, associate publisher Michael McKenzie, and "other staff" constitute what Little, Brown president and publisher Sally Kim called "the final part of the Workman reorganization." The Algonquin imprint was moved into Little, Brown in July. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Julie Heffernan's debut graphic memoir ‘Babe in the Woods: Or the Art of Getting Lost,’ transforms a weekend hike in the woods into an evocative survey of her life and career and into an all-too-real survival story. An 11-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
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From a library worker strike to the upcoming 'SALEM'S LOT adaptation, catch up on all the news relevant to libraries this week. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-08-30 16:00:00 UTC ]
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The Texas-based art book publisher is set to launch its first commercial trade publication, 'Joy Machine,' a retrospective of the work of Texas sculptor Jeffie Brewer, with plans to publish two to three titles a year starting in 2025. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Most Australians have heard of Norman Lindsay’s fantastical children’s book The Magic Pudding. He was just one of ten talented siblings. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2024-08-07 02:54:02 UTC ]
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The 2024 Frankfurter Buchmesse includes a much-enlarged Frankfurt Audio area in Hall 3.1 and a return of The Arts+ Stage to Hall 4.1. The post Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024: Frankfurt Audio and The Arts+ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-08-05 14:35:26 UTC ]
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It’s summer vacation season! Here’s a (hefty) list of the season’s best new design books you should take with you. A “beach read” means different things to different people. There are those who simply shove a couple paperback thrillers or romance novels into their vacation bag and call it a... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2024-08-02 09:30:00 UTC ]
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Union members vote to accept offer that is one percentage point higher over three years than previous proposalFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastJournalists at Nine’s publishing arm have called off... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Editorial staff from the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review, the Brisbane Times and WAtoday reject improved pay offerFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastJournalists employed by... Continue reading at The Guardian
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“All Art Is History”: A Conversation with Parul Kapur, by Sangamithra Iyer Interviews [email protected] Tue, 07/16/2024 - 15:20 On March 26, 2024, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop co-sponsored an event at Yu and Me Books to celebrate the New... Continue reading at World Literature Today
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Peter Schjeldahl’s final book collects the essays and reviews he wrote in the years after a cancer diagnosis. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Time has joined a growing number of publications to sign a licensing deal with OpenAI. The ChatGPT creator will legally be able to train its large language models on 101 years worth of the storied publication's journalism, as Axios first reported. OpenAI will also have access to real-time... Continue reading at Engadget
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His memoir began when he was a child, watching his father die young. Mine started when my young children learned their father died by suicide. We were drawn to each other’s perspectives, thought they could inform our own. In a writing class, students often make alliances such as these,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-06-25 08:54:10 UTC ]
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Roughly 30 members of the Oxford University Press USA Guild held a strike outside the publisher's U.S. headquarters in Manhattan on June 18 over stalled contract negotiations and allegations of labor law violations. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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This season’s notable titles document pop culture innovations, take the measure of towering architects including I.M. Pei, and bring a fresh eye to canonical figures like Albrecht Dürer. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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As Qualcomm-powered Windows on Arm PCs begin appearing here at Computex, ushering in a generation of AI-infused Copilot+ laptops, it seemed appropriate to interview a major player in the push. No, not Qualcomm. (We’ve already spoken to them.) Instead, I mean Arm, the semiconductor... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2024-06-03 18:35:42 UTC ]
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The deal gives OpenAI’s chatbots access to new and archived material from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, MarketWatch and Barron’s, among others. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2024-05-22 21:41:26 UTC ]
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OpenAI and Reddit announced a partnership on Thursday that will allow OpenAI to surface Reddit discussions in ChatGPT and for Reddit to bring AI-powered features to its users. The partnership will “enable OpenAI’s tools to better understand and showcase Reddit content, especially on recent... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-05-16 22:41:33 UTC ]
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Long before his son Lin-Manuel's Tony Award-winning musical “Hamilton” brought his family international recognition and unexpected fortune, Luis A Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2024-05-07 13:34:34 UTC ]
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