A new collection introduces English-speaking audiences to an overlooked Japanese cartoonist who smashed both gender and genre norms during her short life. Continue reading at 'The Atlantic'
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Editors, designers, and publicists spend their days refining and supporting a writer’s art—his or her book. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An exhibition on New York's graffiti traces the history of the art form in the city, a Parisian museum shows how immigrants helped shape comic books worldwide - and other stories from the world of arts. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As a long–time sufferer of bipolar disorder, comic book artist Elaine Will never really fit in. "Not even amongst other artists," she says. Will hated being called crazy. Even worse, she hated how people romanticized the idea of the "crazy artist," who turns out masterpieces in a manic state.... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oxford University Press is publishing a new series detailing the history of the press, spanning... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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O'Reilly said his book on World War II will have 'brand-new information about some very, very fascinating things' and should be released in September 2014. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hearst is likely to call its forthcoming Dr. Mehmet Oz magazine "The Good Life," according to two people familiar with the matter. The title will likely also include the celebrity physician's name, though it's unclear precisely how that will be presented.A Hearst spokeswoman declined to... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If you're not already in a state of advanced excitement over the Breaking Bad finale, Francesco Francavilla's episodic images will put you over the edge. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2013-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Edward Thorp was banned from casinos in Vegas for counting cards. He even published a book on his system for winning at the blackjack table using the mathematical theory of probability. While working at MIT, he built what many consider the first wearable device for -- you guessed it -- beating... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After a two-decade-long relationship between the magazine giant Time Inc. and American Express, Time Inc. plans to close quickly on its purchase of American Express’s publishing division. “This 20-year courtship is finally bei ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Most efforts to explain design at Apple end up reducing a complex 37–year history to bromides about simplicity, quality, and perfection––as if those were ambitions unique to Apple alone. So Fast Company set out to remedy that deficiency through an oral history of Apple's design, a decoding of... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A history of Judaism, a biography of Margaret Thatcher and a book about the importance of bees are all nominated for this year's Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As the U.S. economy crumbled, Choire Sicha wrote a nonfiction book about its effect on a group of young men in New York in 2009.Let's say you had the misfortune to be young and broke in 2009. Some people moved back in with family members. Some people's parents helped them get a job. Others... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Art, commerce, passion and personalities meet in Boris Kachka's chronicle of the publisher that set the 'intellectual tone of postwar America.'Years ago, when he was publishing my first novel, Charles Scribner III told me a joke: "How do you make a small fortune in publishing?" The punch line:... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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J.M. Sidorova's ambitious debut novel 'The Age of Ice' spins a tale of an icy immortal ensnared in Russian history.The protagonist of J.M. Sidorova's ambitious first novel, "The Age of Ice," is conceived in extremity during the reign of the cruel and impulsive Russian Empress Ionaovna.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As of this writing, Christine Quinn, the first female and openly gay speaker of the New York City Council, remains a front-runner in the city’s crowded race for mayor. A poll by Quinnipiac University, the New York Times reports, shows Quinn, the second-most-powerful elected official in the... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2013-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After years of struggle, Colombia's independent comics and graphic novel scene is starting to flourish, with new publishers and a traveling comics festival. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown is to publish a "groundbreaking" account of events surrounding the death... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Serpent's Tail has acquired a new non-fiction book on the cultural history of tennis by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harvill Secker editorial director Michal Shavit has bought a wide-ranging history of humankind... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate has acquired What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire by Daniel... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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