This celebration of bookish snark, won by AA Gill for his Morrissey assault, is less daring and less worthy than it thinksIt's the middle of a wet, wet winter, unaccountably you haven't shed the pounds or learnt the cello as per the optimism of 1 Jan, and to make matters even worse, Valentine's Day is just around the corner. No wonder you're feeling bilious; thank God, therefore, that there is a literary prize to match your mood.Last night, the Omnivore's Hatchet Job of the Year award, an annual celebration of unkind book reviewing, went to AA Gill for his piece on Morrissey's Autobiography; on this scant information alone, if the prize were suddenly in need of a new name, we might reasonably suggest the Shooting Fish in a Barrel award. But more of AA presently; for now, let us leave him to enjoy his spoils, a year's supply of potted shrimp donated by The Fish Society (I think the idea is to draw a parallel between the smell of rotten fish and the smell of rotten writing; it might also be an allusion to those possibly apocryphal stories of spurned lovers sewing prawns into the spurners' curtain rods).The Hatchet Job of the Year, previously won by critics Adam Mars-Jones and Camilla Long, is the duck/rabbit of the literary prize season. Viewed one way, what's to dislike? It takes a welcome hatpin to the balloon of literary pomposity; it declares war on the bland book review and the log-rolling backslap. The prize locates itself firmly in the traditions of seductively... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Thirteen of the top 20 19th century U.S. history books on the site share a title in common. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Portraying and documenting slavery on film is wrought with logistical and ethical challenges. Now back in the spotlight, can film improve campaign impact?Guddi was trafficked into Mumbai's sex industry aged 11. The first man she was forced to go with brutalised her so severely that she was... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PW Comics World's bi-weekly spotlight on crowdfunded comics and comics-related projects. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers from the Midwest and the West Coast dominate this year's shortlist for the 22nd annual award. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sanj Kharbanda has been promoted to senior v-p, digital markets for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Special World Book Night copies of '12 Years a Slave' will be made available to schools. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Janet Rasche will be joining Macmillan in the newly created position of v-p, operations planning, effective March 3 Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Throughout her photo book Libri di Famiglia, Elena Capra creates a portrait of various mundane objects from the house in Italy where she grew up ? A TV remote wrapped in cellophane, a distinct orange plastic bag, a stack of tupperware. In doing so, she traces a subtle portrait of the couple that... Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2014-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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NEWARK — Gannett Publishing Services will cease printing operations at The Advocate’s plant downtown during 2014, the company told employees Thursday. All production work for The Advocate and numerous other daily and weekly newsp ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of the movie-tie-in have climbed steadily in the lead up to the Academy Awards on Sunday—reaching back to holiday highs. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reka Simonsen will be joining us at Atheneum Books for Young Readers as executive editor, effective March 10. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Special WBN editions of Solomon Northrup’s memoir have been printed as part of World Book Night’s nationwide celebration on April 23. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After 34 years at Simon & Schuster, sales rep Michael Carley will be retiring on April 22. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Over the weekend I noticed a link to a nearly 16-year-old New York Times article appearing over and over in my Twitter feed. The piece, written by Saul Hansell and published June 9, 1998, is titled "America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million." In fact, the piece gained so much... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Journalists on three titles in northern England owned by Gannett are to strike over plans to move editing work to south Wales. But this is of a piece with the US firm's attitude to print mediaHere's a claim to savour. "The strength of [our] network lies in its ability to penetrate local... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Although Rolando Hinojosa has won numerous awards during his distinguished career, including the 1976 Premio Casa de las Americas, he is especially excited, and humbled, to be named the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, which he will receive March 13 at the National Book... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan Science and Education has named Allison Rutledge-Parisi Chief People Officer. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sheffield City Council has approved plans to slash its library funding and leave only 12 of its... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Not only is the memoir by Solomon Northup now an Oscar-nominated film, but director Steve McQueen is encouraging schools to use the book as part of their units on slavery and the Civil War. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Since Valve released the first stable version of Steam for Linux a year ago, the number of Linux-supported games has grown more than fivefold.Valve's digital game distribution service now hosts 333 games for Linux, compared to 60 games last February. (Strangely, Steam's store page claims that... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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