Interviews Get to know the jurors for the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature in this series of short interviews. First up: Tanita S. Davis! Tanita S. Davis was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Mare’s War, which was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Kirkus praised her most recent novel, Peas and Carrots, as “an emotionally honest plot and candid conversations about race and class.” Davis was a foster sister from the age of nine until she graduated from college, when her parents adopted the last two babies and retired. A native San Franciscan, she currently lives in Northern California with David Macknet and a houseful of books. In addition to serving as a juror for the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, Davis will participate in the Readings and Book Giveaways by the 2021 NSK Prize Jury event. Q: What was your first favorite book, the book that made you a reader? A: The book that made me a reader was L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. I fished a hardbound copy of the 1908 classic from a pile of books being donated for a sale by teachers winnowing their classroom libraries. As the youngest in my family, I jumped at the chance to read a thick book with no pictures that felt more like A Real Adult Book. I loved Anne immediately, and was thrilled to learn that I could have “kindred spirits” and “vexation of spirit.” I was so intrigued by Anne’s (mis)adventures that I carried the book... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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The New Inquiry's Rachel Rosenfelt joins The New Republic as its next publisher and VP, and more people on the move this week. The post Modern Luxury Appoints New Editors-in-Chief | People on the Move appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A three-day program for international professionals in publishing, the Istanbul International Literature Festival runs May 2 through 6 this year, and has extended the deadline for applications. The post Professional Networking in Turkey: Apply for Istanbul’s Literature Festival Fellowship... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trevor Wilson, director of Authors Abroad, is launching a children’s literature festival in Yorkshire to “address the north-south gap”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Legal thriller writer John Grisham is to headline the 2018 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate this July. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon Mackay has been appointed the new head of book sales and retail for the Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster UK has launched a competition with the Darley Anderson Literary Agency and Bradford Literature Festival to find the next bestselling commercial fiction author. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins imprint HQ is teaming up with Borough Market and Waterstones to host a festival celebrating the “explosion” in popularity of plant-based food. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The theme of this year's PEN World Voices Festival, "Resist and Reimagine," brings writers including Colson Whitehead, Roxane Gay, Eileen Myles, Jhumpa Lahiri, Dave Eggers, and Masha Gessen together in New York for six days in April. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The late InterVarsity Press author and editor James Sire was lauded as a major force in Evangelical intellectualism and apologetics -- in his own works and those of the authors he brought forward. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kew Gardens will host a Peter Rabbit themed festival this year after striking a deal with Penguin Ventures, part of Penguin Random House. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sir Patrick Stewart is to headline the Huddersfield Literature Festival this year, which is taking place from the 8th to the 18th March. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tanit Koch’s departure as top editor of Bild, a mass-market tabloid owned by Axel Springer, the German publishing giant, comes two years after she took up the post. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2018-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales and marketing agency Inpress is to hold a "festival of publishing" this Friday under the theme of "I Did it My Way: A Celebration of the Creative Spirit". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audiences have moved toward fun fiction and away from furious facts as Michael Wolff's 'Fire and Fury' takes a tumble to #3 on the iBooks list, while 'The Woman in the Window' by A.J. Finn—a book editor who now writes thrillers under a pen name—takes the #1 slot. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The University of Central Lancashire’s publishing department is launching the Northern YA Literary Festival featuring speakers such as Holly Black, Samantha Shannon and Annabel Pitcher. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hello, book lovers! I’m book editor Carolyn Kellogg with this week’s literary news. THE BIG STORY John Freeman’s name is in lights — literary lights, that is, on the cover of the journal Freeman’s. In it, he encourages some of our greatest writers — Mohsin Hamid, Valeria Luiselli, Dave Eggers —... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Foyles’ sales were marginally up in value terms in December, despite the mini-chain being hit by a drop in footfall, which it said was a result of adverse weather and roadworks outside its flagship branch on Charing Cross Road in London. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PW' editorial director Jim Milliot examines Macmillan's resolution to stand firm against threats from President Trump, and 'PW' publishes Macmillan CEO John Sargent's letter to staff on the matter. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Magazine publisher Hearst UK is to launch a book festival which will include a new awards, accreditation and live events experience. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The week before Christmas saw the biggest value takings for books since 2007, but bad weather and a surge in online orders hit brick and mortar booksellers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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