With her new approach to learning, the Italian educator sought to help the underprivileged, Cristina De Stefano writes. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
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In his new graphic biography, 'Is This Guy for Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman,' cartoonist Box Brown documents the life of the eccentric comedian, actor and professional wrestling performer. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jack Deere, once a bestselling author and popular preacher, spent 20 years struggling with his son’s death and his wife's alcoholism before re-emerging with a story of divine grace. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vaseem Khan’s life changed after discovering the the local library as a child—and now he hopes to inspire others through his Quick Reads contribution. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The late Helen Dunmore has been awarded the Costa Book of the Year award posthumously for her "life affirming" 10th and final collection, Inside the Wave (Bloodaxe Books), which was written while she was dying from cancer. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Laura Jones and Heather McDaid reflect on the meteoric rise of their indie press 404 Ink since its launch last year and how they achieved it. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It looks as though production is about to begin in Maryland on the sixth and final season of “House of Cards,” which has been rewritten to omit star and executive producer Kevin Spacey. A casting notice was published Friday on Facebook for the “first official photo shoot for Season 6” with a... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
[ Baltimore Sun | 2018-01-22 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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Acknowledging the patriarchal society of biblical times, author Mesu Andrews finds inspiration among the obscure women in Scripture and hopes to add more to their stories in her award-winning novels, including her latest, ‘Isaiah’s Daughter.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The appointment of this boorish polemicist to the Office for Students will only confirm how toxic the current Tory brand is to younger votersToby Young has never been shy of self-promotion. He admits to possessing a “gargantuan” ego, writes frequently about himself and was famously the author of... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The historian did important work on the Peterloo massacre and the suffragette movement, says Lindsey German, and deserves greater prominence than the failed memoir forger Clifford IrvingIt shows a somewhat strange priority that your main obituary on 27 December described the life of Clifford... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Andrew Morton is to pen an in-depth biography on Meghan Markle, who he calls a "dramatic contrast to the blushing, coy royal brides of recent history". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Press is to rush-release YouTube psychologist Jordan Peterson's book out in January. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Few contemporary writers have portrayed black Southern life with as much wit and heart-pounding drama as Attica Locke, whose latest book is the mystery “Bluebird, Bluebird.” Formerly a writer and producer on the television show “Empire,” Locke took the publishing world by storm with her debut... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The writer and editor promoted Joseph Conrad and DH Lawrence and deserves recognition as a great literary tastemakerThe first question worth asking of Helen Smith’s A-grade biography of Edward Garnett (1868‑1937) is just how many manuscripts passed across the desk of this publishers’ reader in... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jane Juska, whose chronicle of searching for sex as a woman in her 60s became a best-selling memoir and later a stage show, has died. She was 84. Juska died Tuesday at a Chico care facility after a long illness, her son, Andy Juska, told the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday. She was a retired... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Acting children's editor and Harry Potter fan Caroline Carpenter gives her verdict on the British Library's new Harry Potter exhibition. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Life is publishing pregnancy guru Rebecca Shiller’s "empowering" guide, Your No-Guilt Pregnancy Plan, in March 2018. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With a growing membership, the Emirates Publishers Association was at the Frankfurt Book Fair to spread the work about publishing in the UAE. The post ‘New Vision’ for Emirates Publishers Association appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The life of Penny Hoare, former deputy publishing director at Chatto & Windus, who died in May this year, will be celebrated at a memorial on Thursday 26th October. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has acquired Danish scientist Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard’s "life-affirming" memoir, The Blink of an Eye, about her experience of locked-in syndrome. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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