Strand bookstore in NY urgently needs help from customers to help the store...
The Strand Bookstore in New York City is asking its many customers to attend a public hearing on Tuesday morning morning to help the store "make a case against landmark status" for its store at...
View ArticleBritish authors express concern that Brexit will fatally undermine the UK...
The UK publishing trade magazine, The Bookseller reports on authors' concerns about the effects of Brexit on the UK publishing industry: Novelist Joanna Trollope has warned that Theresa May's...
View ArticleIs listening to a book the same thing as reading it?
Daniel T. Willingham, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, compares audio books to print books and concludes that each is best suited to different purposes, and neither is superior: ......
View ArticleBrazilian Book Trade Facing 'Dark Days for Books'
An ongoing crisis in the Brazilian publishing market "that combined steady declines in the price of books with rising inflation" is raising concerns about the future of the book trade in the country,...
View ArticleReese Witherspoon to produce 'Where the Crawdads Sing' adaptation for Fox 2000
Fox 2000 has acquired the best-selling novel "Where the Crawdads Sing" and has tapped Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine to produce a feature film adaptation. Witherspoon's involvement is not a great...
View ArticleControversy continues over Linda Fairstein's Grand Master Award
Several longtime, well-known members and honorees of the Mystery Writers of America, including two mystery booksellers and a past president, have made public their extreme displeasure with the...
View ArticleAudrey Geisel, Dr. Seuss' widow and noted philanthropist, dies at 97
Audrey Geisel, 97, philanthropist and wife of the late Theodor Seuss Geisel, died on December 19. Petite and often understated, she was a fierce protector of her husband's creations and legacy, and a...
View ArticleBooks by Agatha Christie, P.G. Wodehouse, Robert Frost, and many more enter...
This coming year marks the first time in two decades that a large body of copyrighted works will lose their protected status - a shift that will have profound consequences for publishers and literary...
View ArticleAmos Oz, Israeli Author and Peace Advocate, Dies at 79
Amos Oz, the renowned Israeli author whose work captured the characters and landscapes of his young nation, and who matured into a leading moral voice and an insistent advocate for peace with the...
View ArticlePublishers Weekly buys TheMillions.com for an undisclosed sum
PWxyz, parent company of Publishers Weekly, has acquired the online magazine the Millions, plus its website TheMillions.com, for an undisclosed price. The Millions was founded in 2003 by Max Magee and...
View ArticleBrian Garfield, award-winning author of more than 70 books, screenwriter and...
Brian Garfield, award-winning author, screenwriter and film producer, died December 29. He was 79. After publishing his first title, Range Justice, when he was 18, Garfield went on to write more than...
View ArticleSally Rooney, 27, becomes youngest author to win the Costa Novel Award
Irish novelist Sally Rooney, 27, has become the youngest author ever to win the Costa Novel Award, triumphing for her second novel Normal People, a coming-of-age love story the judges said "will...
View ArticleLin-Manuel Miranda & partners buy NYC's Drama Book Shop
Lin-Manuel Miranda and three of his Hamilton collaborators have purchased New York City's beloved Drama Book Shop, which had celebrated its 100th birthday last year but announced in the fall it would...
View ArticleAuthors Guild report finds author earnings continue to decline
In what the Authors Guild is calling the "largest survey of U.S. professional writers ever conducted," the organization reports the median income published American authors received for all...
View ArticleFrancine du Plessix Gray, searching novelist and journalist, Is dead at 88
Francine du Plessix Gray, a French-American writer who, in her novels and journalism, explored the complexities of cultural identity, the obstacles confronting women seeking their place in the world...
View ArticleStephen King persuades newspaper not to scrap its book reviews
The Portland Press Herald, based in Stephen King's home state of Maine, had decided to stop running reviews of local books. After King expressed dismay, the paper challenged him to get 100 followers...
View ArticleMary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who found solace in nature, dies at 83
Mary Oliver, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose lyrical descriptions of the lamp-eyed owl, the white-toothed bear and the lilies by the pond evoked natural wonders with a startling clarity of vision,...
View ArticleGov. Ricketts of Nebraska refuses to endorse "This Blessed Earth" for "One...
Gov. Ricketts has broken with a 15-year tradition and refused to endorse This Blessed Earth by Ted Genoways (who went to high school and college in Nebraska) for an annual statewide literary...
View ArticleThe terrible celebrity biographies of Amazon, not explained
Writing in Vox, Kaitlyn Tiffany dives deep into Amazon Publishing, focusing on "the terrible celebrity biographies of Amazon, not explained"... It's a unique sort of suffering to be enamored of a...
View ArticleParanormal romance author, Sherrilyn Kenyon, accuses her husband of a...
... In late 2014, it became a labor for the author to breathe and walk. Her teeth putrefied. Her hair fell out in clumps. She endured tremors, stomach cramps, facial swelling and vertigo. There was an...
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