In Megan Giddings’s debut novel Lakewood, desperation leads to a loss of self in a capitalist medical system bent on taking advantage of Black people and their bodies. After the death of her grandmother, Lena, a college student struggling with overwhelming medical debt and taking care of her chronically ill mother, decides to suspend her […] The post Why Is Dying in America So Expensive? appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'
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Google has added one more to its growing collection of packaged-goods marketing executives -- Julie Eddleman, who was the top U.S. media executive of the biggest U.S. advertising spender, Procter & Gamble Co.Jodi Allen, VP-North America brand of P&G and Ms. Eddleman's boss, has assumed... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Brookline Village, Mass.-based press has completely revised its first ring-bound cookbook, even removing the rings. It now weighs in at 7.5 pounds. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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EducaTablet has launched a digital-content ecosystem where Latin American students can access textbooks from major publishers, in Spanish and English, online and off. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Continuing the trend of iconic comic books selling for house-in-the-Hamptons levels of cash, a nearly perfect copy of Action Comics No. 1 (aka the first appearance of Superman) sold for a record-breaking $3.2 million last night on eBay. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2014-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Longtime magazine publishing executive Sally Preston has been named North America president of Orion Capital, effective Sept. 3.She succeeds Tony Harridine, who has moved back to Australia, the company said.Ms. Preston was most recently VP-publisher at Time Inc.'s Real Simple magazine, and... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon.com is taking on Walt Disney Co. and its superheroes in its quest to gain more control over pricing online.Amazon blocked pre-orders of Disney's summer hit movie "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" and other titles in disk form, repeating a tactic used in recent disputes with book... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nobel Prize-winning writer Nadine Gordimer has died aged 90. The South African, awarded the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Myers, author of such books as 'Hoops' and 'Monster,' recently published an essay lamenting what he saw as a lack of diverse characters in children's literature. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The UK-born father of two and CEO of Hachette Australia was washed on to a dangerous rocky area at the Sydney beachA surfer who died after hitting his head at a popular Sydney beach has been named as publishing company boss Matthew Richell.Paramedics were called to Tamarama beach about 2pm... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Magazine publisher who was an editor on 1960s counter-culture title Oz dies after battle with cancer The nine lives of Felix Dennis: Ive lived an unbelievable life, even if I did do my best to kill myself This much I know: Felix Dennis Weekend Magazine Q&A, Felix Dennis: Its no fun watching... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Minka Disbrow, the mother separated from her daughter by adoption who spent nearly 80 years searching for her, has died at the age of 102. Disbrow’s story was told in a May 2014 book, “The Waiting: A True Story of a Lost Child, a Lifetime of Longing, and a Miracle for a Mother Who Never Gave... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Glenn Britt, a former chairman and chief executive of Time Warner Cable and a leader in the pay-television industry for many years, died of cancer Wednesday at his New York City home at the age of 65. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2014-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Puffin Books said it is “deeply saddened” by the death of author and illustrator Eric... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What can cookbooks tell us about politics, economics, and daily life throughout American history? A new series from Michigan State University Press explores just that. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The author and activist Maya Angelou, who died at her home in North Carolina, is best known for her 1969 autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (Random House). Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Poet and author Dr Maya Angelou has died aged 86. Angelou, whose I Know Why the Caged Bird... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ian McEwan, whose forthcoming novel The Children Act (Jonathan Cape) will look at the dilemma of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Virgin Soldier author Leslie Thomas has died aged 83. Thomas, who was brought up in a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rogers, Coleridge and White has confirmed the death of its chairman, literary agent Deborah... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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