The film director’s book Apropos of Nothing was dropped by its US publisher after staff walkouts, but the French publisher says ‘Allen is not Roman Polanski’Woody Allen’s controversial memoir will still be published in France despite its US publisher dropping it, with his French publisher saying that the film director is “not Roman Polanski” and that “the American situation is not ours”.Allen’s memoir, Apropos of Nothing, was acquired last week by Hachette in the US. The move was quickly condemned by the author’s daughter Dylan Farrow, who has alleged that Allen sexually abused her as a child, allegations that Allen has denied. Allen’s son Ronan Farrow, whose book Catch and Kill – also published by Hachette – details his investigations into institutional sexual abuse in the media and Hollywood, also blasted the decision and announced he would no longer work with Hachette. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2020-03-09 14:57:23 UTC ]
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Granta has acquired Pulitzer Prize-winning author Margo Jefferson's "astonishing" memoir, Negroland. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There's a clichéd arc to rock memoirs: the ambitious young man (almost always a man), the climb up the charts, the blinding success, the sex and drugs, then the crash and burn. Thankfully, that's absent from the new book "Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl" by Carrie Brownstein, guitarist and vocalist... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bonnier Publishing Fiction and Allen & Unwin have organised a new sales and distribution arrangement covering Australia and New Zealand. Allen & Unwin will represent the existing children’s fiction imprints Hot Key Books and Piccadilly Press, the new adult fiction imprints Zaffre and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bit in her book that readers are reacting to the most, says Louise O'Neill, is not the gang rape. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2015-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The French cartoonist Riad Sattouf spent the earliest years of his life in three dictatorships. One dictator was Col. Moammar Kadafi, the "supreme leader" of Libya, where Sattouf and his parents moved when he was 2. Another was President Hafez Assad of Syria, where they relocated when he was 4.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has pre-empted a memoir described as “Eat, Pray, Love meets Wild”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks director to join forces with journalist Kristine McKenna for an autobiographical study of his life and workThe director David Lynch has teamed up with the journalist Kristine McKenna to hit back at the “bullshit” surrounding his life and work in a book due to be... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We got good suggestions for what Phil Collins should title his memoir, but one was obviously the best and only choice... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and noted free speech activist, is writing his memoirs that will be published in 2017 by Crown, the publisher announced this week. The book will be published in multiple countries in print, audio and digital formats and is expected to cover the artist's life,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bodley Head is to publish a “sweeping memoir” by artist and political activist Ai Weiwei. As yet untitled, the book will be simultaneously published in the UK and in the US by Crown in spring 2017. Stuart Williams, publishing director at The Bodley Head, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ahead of the 2015 Rights Directors Meeting at the Frankfurt Book Fair, French rights directors talk about how global publishers can sell rights into France. The post Selling Rights Into France: Oui, It’s Easier Than You Think! appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House's Viking division is to publish novelist John le Carré's memoir. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book recounts Fleet Street’s days of unlimited expenses amid an alcoholic hazeFleet Street memoirs are often difficult to read without wincing. Too many veteran reporters, and former editors for that matter, tend to think their reminiscences of “amusing” times past are both entertaining and also... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In France, literary agency L’Autre Agence hopes to change the country's negative attitude toward literary agents with hard work and a list of great authors. The post L’Autre Agence Fights to Change the Image of Literary Agents in France appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A New York court has ruled that two textbook authors can proceed with a class action case against Pearson Education for failing to pay proper royalties. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Schumer, who wrote and starred in this summer's movie 'Trainwreck,' will reportedly release a memoir through Gallery Books in 2016. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Allen Lane has acquired an “extraordinary” new book on the Third Reich and drug use, which was published in Germany this month. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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French app BookWeather is a social network that rates books as you might describe the weather, that also offers a bespoke physical book subscription service. The post France’s BookWeather App Offer’s Unique Take on Book Discovery appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown has signed a book by Ensaf Haidar, the wife of imprisoned Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi. Richard Beswick won world English language rights, excluding America, in an auction to Raif Badawi, The Voice of Freedom: My Husband, Our Story from Barbara Zitwer at the Barbara J Zitwer... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Young was accused of heresy with his bestselling 'The Shack,' and the author expects that his new novel 'Eve' will spark even more debate. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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