What was Nero really doing while Rome burned?

Historian Anthony A. Barrett examines the wide-ranging consequences of the Great Fire. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

[ The Washington Post | 2020-11-20 13:00:00 UTC ]
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What was Nero really doing while Rome burned?

Historian Anthony A. Barrett examines the wide-ranging consequences of the Great Fire. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-11-20 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting wins inaugural Nero book of the year prize

Irish author’s ‘suspenseful and linguistically astonishing’ fourth novel praised for its ‘great wit and humanity’ by judge Bernardine EvaristoThe Irish author Paul Murray has won the inaugural £30,000 Nero Gold prize for The Bee Sting, a comic family saga set in rural Ireland.Murray was... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2024-03-14 19:30:28 UTC ]
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The UK’s New Nero Book Awards Name Their First Category Winners

The successor to the Costa Book Awards, the new Nero Book Awards announce several winners ahead of the Nero Gold Prize book of the year. The post The UK’s New Nero Book Awards Name Their First Category Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-01-30 22:52:15 UTC ]
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Book Review: ‘Burn Man: Selected Stories,’ by Mark Anthony Jarman

The anthology “Burn Man” selects from decades of Mark Anthony Jarman’s work, bringing the writer’s lush and searing stories to new readers. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2024-01-14 10:00:16 UTC ]
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Another Cup of Coffee: The UK’s Nero Book Awards’ Shortlists

The new Nero Book Awards is a very similar contest to the Costa Book Awards, which bowed out after 50 years in June 2022. The post Another Cup of Coffee: The UK’s Nero Book Awards’ Shortlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2023-12-12 19:02:27 UTC ]
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Italy’s Publishers Ask Rome to Raise Family Schoolbook Funding

The Italian Publishers Association and the market's booksellers are appealing for more government funding for poorer students' books. The post Italy’s Publishers Ask Rome to Raise Family Schoolbook Funding appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2023-09-07 22:09:46 UTC ]
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Italian Publishers Host an Airy Rights Center in Rome

'Independent publishers make up the soul of the book world, and I felt that strongly here.' Industry pros rave about rights meetings in Rome. The post Italian Publishers Host an Airy Rights Center in Rome appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2022-12-09 22:55:39 UTC ]
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Ken Burns By the Book Interview

“What about ‘O Pioneers!’ or ‘My Ántonia’?” asks the documentarian and author of the forthcoming photo book “Our America.” “For that matter, what about Gabriel García Márquez? We do not have a copyright on the word ‘American.’” Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2022-10-20 14:28:19 UTC ]
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Cool, elected school district officials are calling for literal book burning now.

Those who have been paying attention to local education news and the critical race theory debate know that many school districts are battling over what materials can be kept in libraries and taught in classrooms. The battle is making its way to the courts: just this week a PEN America report... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-11-11 17:33:10 UTC ]
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The burning question

During a 2021 summer of extreme weather events across the globe, from cyclones in Indonesia and Fiji and severe floods in China, to record temperatures in Moscow and wildfires in the Pacific US, Sir David King, former UK chief scientific adviser and co-founder of the Climate Crisis Advisory... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-15 13:16:33 UTC ]
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‘The Burning Blue’ is a compact, suspenseful chronicle of the Challenger disaster

Author Kevin Cook focuses on teacher Christa McAuliffe and her grueling months of flight training. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-06-20 12:00:00 UTC ]
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A precious African-studies collection burns in Cape Town

For scholars, the loss recalled those of the libraries of Alexandria, Timbuktu and Rio Continue reading at The Economist

[ The Economist | 2021-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A precious African-studies collection burns in Cape Town

For scholars, the loss recalled those of the libraries of Alexandria, Timbuktu and Rio Continue reading at The Economist

[ The Economist | 2021-06-17 14:58:23 UTC ]
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In Canada, publishing is burning

Canada’s government has said almost nothing about whether or not it is going to move against the Canadian portion of Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster. The global deal is being investigated by regulators in the UK and US. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-04-23 20:08:07 UTC ]
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A library staffer has been fired for burning Trump and Ann Coulter books in his free time.

Cameron Williams, a former staffer at Chattanooga Public Library and a local Black Lives Matter activist, has been fired from his library job three months after being accused of “improperly” burning books written by Donald Trump and Ann Coulter. In December, as the Chattanooga Times Free Press... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-02-17 17:26:28 UTC ]
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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Turn Their Lens, and Jeff Daniels's Voice, to Hemingway

In the run up to 'Hemingway,' a three-part, six-hour documentary to run on PBS April 5-7, three of the series' major participants discussed what it was like to take on the complicated author. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Burns Night: stories of adventure and anguish from the Scottish diaspora

The story of the Scottish diaspora has been well told in print. Now a new audio book brings emigrant stories to life in their own words. Continue reading at The Conversation

[ The Conversation | 2021-01-22 17:53:17 UTC ]
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What a History of Book-Burning Can Tell Us About Preserving Knowledge Today

Lack of funding for libraries is as dangerous as any conquering army in this chronicle of information destroyed throughout the ages. Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2020-12-08 21:32:42 UTC ]
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