“Wild Text Raging”: A Conversation with Threa Almontaser, by Renee H. Shea Interviews [email protected] Tue, 09/03/2024 - 14:05 Photo courtesy of the author / ThreaWrites.comThe Wild Fox of Yemen, by Threa Almontaser, received the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award for best first book in 2020, nearly a year before it was published by Graywolf Press. In the judge’s statement, the poet Harryette Mullen praised the author for “formally and linguistically diverse . . . bold, defiant . . . declarations . . . [that] ask how to belong to others without losing oneself, how to be faithful to oneself without forsaking others.” Almontaser, who is Yemeni American, grew up in New York City, and near the time she was starting college, her family settled in North Carolina. She received a BA in English and an MFA from North Carolina State University. With a TESOL certification, she continues to teach English to immigrants and refugees in the Raleigh–Durham area. She is the recipient of awards from Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy and the National Endowment for the Arts. After the Fulbright Fellowship that she received in 2021 was canceled due to Covid-19, she reapplied and received another to conduct research in Malaysia for the 2024–2025 year. Almontaser serves as editor for Tinderbox Poetry Journal and a juror for the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards. She is currently at work on a novel, what she describes as “a story... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
[ World Literature Today | 2024-09-03 19:05:24 UTC ]
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Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it had left “hundreds of millions” of users’ passwords exposed in plain text, potentially visible to the company’s employees, marking another major privacy and security headache for a tech giant already under fire for mishandling people’s personal... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
[ Baltimore Sun | 2019-03-21 20:35:00 UTC ]
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Bath-based travel publisher Wild Things Publishing has won the inaugural British Book Awards Small Press of the Year, announced at the London Book Fair, and sponsored by the CPI Group. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Taking a talk to Texas, the Frankfurter Buchmesse's Holger Volland will be in conversation with Martina Mara of the Austrian Council on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence during SXSW on March 10. The post Frankfurter Buchmesse Stages a Conversation on AI During SXSW appeared first on... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Head of Zeus has landed Andrew Meehan’s second novel, a “unique and moving take” on Oscar Wilde's relationship with his wife Constance. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The live theater war that NBC and Fox have been waging since 2013, when Carrie Underwood starred in NBC’s "The Sound of Music," saw its latest salvo Sunday with Fox's "Rent: Live," a sweet and energetic sound-staging of Jonathan Larson's 1996 Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning pop opera. For... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Fickling Books (DFB) has acquired world English rights to Furious Thing, a YA on the theme of women’s rage by Jenny Downham. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Live Talk Los Angeles has launched on Spectrum Networks, turning an author event series into a weekly primetime TV show for 1.8 million subscribers in Southern California. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three-time novelist Elliot Ackerman's latest book, "Waiting for Eden," explores the multiple dimensions of veterans’ lives after war, and what it means to love someone despite limitations and challenges. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld has acquired Tamsin Calidas’s I Am An Island, her account of 15 years living on a croft on a remote island in the Hebrides. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador has acquired a "wild, sexy and vibrant" first novel from US cult writer Andrea Lawlor. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ann Cleeves’ final Shetland title, Wild Fire, has blazed straight into the Weekly E-Book Ranking number one slot. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Liverpool University Press has become the inaugural university press partner of The Conversation UK, an independent source of news and views sourced from university academics and researchers and delivered direct to the public, in a partnership LUP is calling the first of its kind. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Continuing her book tour, Omarosa Manigault Newman released an audio recording on Tuesday of former Trump campaign aides discussing the possible existence of a Trump “N-word tape” and how the campaign would respond if it were released. The recording itself did not shed any light on whether the... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2018-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Whether you’re a ‘free spirit’ or one of the ‘gentlefolk’, there’s a new and handsome journal for youIt started as a rebellious trend: a stylish stand against the march of technology and the fast pace of the digital age. But now the vast range of independent magazines on offer in Britain is... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The title treatment for “Sorry to Bother You,” Boots Riley’s joyous dystopian cackle of a directing debut, has more personality than most movies. Designed by the children’s book illustrator J. Otto Seibold in a blocky original font — let’s call it “Dinosaur Tetris” — it conquers the screen in big... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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All-star writers Frank Miller, Scott Snyder, Brian Azzarello, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Greg Rucka, and John Ridley join DC Black Label with their ultimate takes on modern superhero storytelling, bringing edgy and provocative standalone stories to the legends of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman.... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place this week in Los Angeles. Now that the conference is over, Facebook revealed the most discussed games and publishers on Facebook and Instagram from June 9-14. On Facebook, the top five countries who talked about E3, as well as the major games and... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The second-newest imprint in Amazon Publishing’s portfolio offers both audio and ebook editions of works brought together in thematic collections. The first was released during BookExpo in New York City. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson A First Collection Bundles Text and... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In his new book, associate professor of Islamic studies and theology Gabriel Said Reynolds looks at the commonalities between the Qur’an and the Bible, and ultimately, the ways Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are interwoven. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker talks to The Bookseller about moving into the publishing world with her own imprint on behalf of Hogarth. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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