Glittering reviews, swathes of high-profile media coverage and a reported seven-figure sum — Yaa Gyasi’s début Homegoing lives up to the hype, says Alice O’Keeffe. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ibram X. Kendi opens his latest book with his worst memory as a high school student competing in an oratorical contest. Having spent his short lifetime internalizing negative messages about Black people from Black people, from white people, and from the media and culture at large, Kendi... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2019-08-28 11:00:52 UTC ]
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Ibram X. Kendi writes of being influenced by racist ideas — and how to get rid of them. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-08-23 18:06:57 UTC ]
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Tributes have been paid to Gay’s The Word bookshop co-founder Jonathan Cutbill, who has passed away aged 82 after a period of ill health. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-15 17:00:19 UTC ]
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Are children who read a lot of books more likely to do the right the thing in a tough spot? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-08 12:00:15 UTC ]
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The Nobel laureate, who died on Monday, blasted many a myth, with eloquence and grace. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-08-06 18:28:08 UTC ]
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Ben Lindsay’s We Need To Talk About Race has similar cover and title to prizewinning book by Reni Eddo-LodgeThe publisher of a new book about racism in the UK has been accused of “ripping off” Reni Eddo-Lodge’s best-selling polemic Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, after... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-07-18 17:51:47 UTC ]
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Welcome to the latest edition of Ad Age Publisher’s Brief, our roundup of news from the world of content producers across digital and print. Got a tip? Send it our way. Joining us late? Here’s the previous edition. A private word: Back in April, The New York Times announced the launch of... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-07-17 18:51:36 UTC ]
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Independent publisher Everything with Words has acquired world English rights to Elsetime, a middle-grade debut by Irish author Eve McDonnell. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-16 01:32:37 UTC ]
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Independent Wales-based publisher Graffeg is to publish the Welsh-language edition of the award-winning The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-04 18:40:35 UTC ]
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Author Julie Mayhew calls on her fellow writers to push for inclusion and social mobility when arranging school visits. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-02 03:23:31 UTC ]
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Marian Keyes, Candice Carty-Williams, Kerry Hudson and Tracy Chevalier are among the authors on the line-up for the inaugural Words Weekend event in Gateshead. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-26 21:01:32 UTC ]
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Indie children’s publisher Everything With Words has landed its first adult book, a “brilliantly funny” guide to democracy by ex-MP Bob Marshall Andrews and illustrator Martin Rowson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-08 09:32:11 UTC ]
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The New York Rights Fair opened with a conversation about the evolution of actor Reese Witherspoon's production company, Hello Sunshine, and her wildly popular Instagram book club, an engine for bestsellers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus has acquired the “provocative” 28-day guide to anti-racism and recognising white privilege by Layla Saad. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-28 07:07:07 UTC ]
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Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris have begun "an even more ambitious and necessary project” than the publishing phenomenon The Lost Words for Hamish Hamilton, entitled The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Spread the Word has urged for greater investment in under-represented authors from the trade, as it reopens its London Writers Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canadian instapoet Rupi Kaur talks to us about her poetry journey and love of live performance, following a sold-out UK event during London Book Fair. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Taking as a starting point the protest over right-wing exhibitors at the 2017 Göteborg Book Fair, 'Words Without Borders' March issue focuses on politics, stereotypes, and identity in Swedish and Finnish writing. The post Words Without Borders March: ‘How Political Borders Shift’ appeared first... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For centuries, women have been using their words to educate and inspire — from Coretta Scott King’s tales from the frontlines Continue reading at The Huffington Post
[ The Huffington Post | 2019-03-05 14:00:03 UTC ]
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Publishing doyenne tells of success tinged by heartache in film ‘to be seen after my death’“I am Diana Athill, and if you are watching this I am no longer alive. This is my final say.”With a flourish of self-conscious drama, Athill, the writer, literary editor and doyenne of British publishing,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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