Yes, graphic novels are thriving. (Well done, Booker) | Rachel Cooke

Comic book Sabrina by Nick Drnaso is on the longlist for the prize, but it’s just the latest in a fine traditionHow am I supposed to feel about the fact that for the first time a graphic novel has made it on to the Booker longlist? As someone who loves comics, and who has championed them in this newspaper for more than a decade, it should go without saying that I’m thrilled. Sabrina by Nick Drnaso is a good book by any standards: as deeply rich in mood, voice and plot as any regular novel I’ve read this year.But in truth, I can’t help but be irritated by all the fuss, too. To me, it’s as if someone had suddenly pointed out that music is great, or trees, or swimming pools. Given the thriving state of the comic, and the relative weediness of certain other literary forms, surely the bigger story here by far is the fact that the poet Robin Robertson’s wondrous verse novel, The Long Take, is also on the list. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2018-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with: #good book #ve read

Other news stories related to: "Yes, graphic novels are thriving. (Well done, Booker) | Rachel Cooke"

Little, Brown to publish J K Rowling's first adult novel

Little, Brown is publish J K Rowling’s first novel for adults worldwide in the English... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |

S&S orders Darkness for Gregory's YA novels

Historical writer Philippa Gregory's first YA novel is to be called Changeling, and will form... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #ya novels

Rowling to pen first adult novel

Author JK Rowling announces she plans to publish her first adult novel, which will be "very different" to the Harry Potter books she is famous for. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2012-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |

New Ellen Feldman novel for Picador

Picador has acquired the next novel by Orange Prize-shortlisted novelist Ellen Feldman, with the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |

The Guardian Thrives in Facebook’s Walled Garden

In September, British newspaper The Guardian was one of the first publishers to build an app designed specifically for its content to be consumed (and shared) within Facebook. The upside: The prospect of added visibility to 850 million users. The dow ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #british newspaper #walled garden

Cape to publish unfinished Patrick White novel

Jonathan Cape will publish the unfinished novel The Hanging Garden by Australian author Patrick... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with: #jonathan cape

Graphic Canon: Comics Meet the Classics

In what looks to be the graphic publishing literary event of the year, Seven Stories Press will publish the first volume of the Graphic Canon: Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons in April, the first of a three-volume anthology of graphic interpretations of the world’s literary... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

Yes, graphic novels are thriving. (Well done, Booker) | Rachel Cooke

Other news stories related to: "Yes, graphic novels are thriving. (Well done, Booker) | Rachel Cooke"

Little, Brown to publish J K Rowling&#039;s first adult novel

S&S orders Darkness for Gregory&#039;s YA novels

Rowling to pen first adult novel

New Ellen Feldman novel for Picador

The Guardian Thrives in Facebook’s Walled Garden

Cape to publish unfinished Patrick White novel

Graphic Canon: Comics Meet the Classics

Digital-only short story trails Fforde novel

New Pelecanos novel for spring

Cape acquires steampunk novel

S&S buys three novels from 'global' Desai

Faber buys third novel from Milward

Two more Rachel Knight for Mulholland

Orbit buys new Humanity's Fire novel

Thrive title to Hay House

Dancer Acosta's first novel to Bloomsbury

'Downton Abbey''s Stevens to judge Man Booker

Package print with digital to thrive, says Schnittman

Good Housekeeping launches £25k novel competition

Pan Mac acquires new Amy Bratley novel

Little, Brown to publish J K Rowling's first adult novel

S&S orders Darkness for Gregory's YA novels