ONE DAY IN a Los Angeles bookshop in the mid-1970s, a thick City Lights softcover with a stark black-and-white spine magnetized a suburban adolescent’s eyeballs. “BUKOWSKI” the cover read at the top in big block letters, and at the bottom, in smaller letters: “Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.” Between the author’s […] The post “The Faster You Pour It Down”: On Charles Bukowski’s “On Drinking” appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'
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Publishers are accelerating the development cycle for licensed tie-ins to satisfy consumer demand. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Palazzo Editions is to publish Holy Cow!, an illustrated collection of the best of Charles Saatchi’s "hugely popular" columns for the London Evening Standard next month. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Travel guidebook publisher Lonely Planet has launched Lonely Planet Food, a new imprint devoted to the company’s list of food and drink titles, for "people at home who are keen to experience world food at its most authentic". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google made a move Tuesday that should have every publisher and ecommerce player on notice, expanding links to Accelerated Mobile Pages beyond a carousel at the top of its search results to the full list of hits below.Google has been displaying AMP pages in a carousel intended to highlight news... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A look inside the organizations advocating for the non-dominant voices in technology.Silicon Valley is a world of mirrors and myths. Every company has a creation story; most have an eccentric leader; some have had entire books written about them. The most pervasive myth out there, however, is... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2016-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Executive editor Gillian Britt explains the brand’s unique format. The post What Publishers Can Learn from Eat Drink Lucky’s E-Mail Success appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The US leader has taken a break from being a world statesman to pay tribute in prose to ‘an American treasure’Charlie Brown and Snoopy have found a high-profile supporter in Barack Obama, who has taken a break from running the US to write the foreword to a new volume collecting what the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cookbook of the week: "Eat Your Drink," by Matthew Biancaniello (Dey Street Books, $22.99.) Spend much time bar-hopping around Los Angeles, and you'll inevitably run into Biancaniello (bald head, great hat collection) sooner or later — and not a few of his cocktails. Biancaniello started out... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google AMP officially launched today, and the search giant's new feature promises to help some mobile pages load more quickly and combat ad fraud. AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages, an open-source project that's supported by major publishers like Daily Mail, social platforms such as... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tech firm Charles River Analytics is expanding in Cambridge as the company pursues a long-term plan for organic growth, a move that will result in roughly doubling its headquarters space by 2018. The company has renewed its lease at 625 Mount Auburn St. and also has plans to move into space... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The founder of Amistad Press, and a pioneering African American book publishing executive, died December 16 in New York City. He was 81. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Every second counts with often impatient mobile users, so Google wants to help publishers reduce the time it takes their articles to load when viewed on smartphones. On Wednesday, Google launched a program called Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP, which speeds up load times by plugging a piece... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google on Wednesday introduced a publishing platform designed to make news articles on smartphones load faster, which will compete with similar services from Facebook and Apple.Google's new project, called the "Accelerated Mobile Pages Project," is aimed at loading mobile web pages instantly... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book distributors are adding warehouse space and upgrades to shave delivery time to bookstores. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More than 1,000 people, publishers and booksellers have donated to the 'Jungle Library' at the Calais migrant camp, which is now raising money for supplies. The post Donations Pour Into Calais Migrant “Jungle Camp” Library appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Italian novelist, whose real-life identity is a well-kept secret, says in email interview that female authors continue to be confined to a ‘literary gynaeceum’The elusive Italian author Elena Ferrante has said that women writers tend to be shut “in a literary gynaeceum” by the books... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Science fiction and fantasy publisher Gollancz has partnered with London's Prince Charles cinema and mobile video game library the Gamer’s Bus on the second Gollancz Festival. The festival takes place at Waterstones Manchester Deansgate on 16th October and Waterstones Piccadilly in London on... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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These are perilous times for a writer to tackle the subject of women's drinking, entwined as it's become with the tripwire topics of rape and sexual consent. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Charles Belfoure's writing career began when he wrote his thesis while studying for an M.A. in architecture at Columbia University. While he'd done a lot of drawing in his bid to become a professional architect, it was the first time, he says, that he actually wrote anything of any significant... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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To celebrate print’s everlasting power in a fast-paced era dominated by Kindles, pay a visit to one of these five haunts that both conjure New York’s literary past and prove it’s still very much thriving. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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