- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostDavid Allen can sound something like a guru. The author of the productivity bible Getting Things Done likes to talk about "mismanaged inputs," the things that "pull on your psyche" and the nirvana people experience when they fully empty ...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comWhen I mention that I write romance novels at cocktail parties, one of the most frequent responses from men and women alike is "Oh, like the Fabio books?" When the New Yorker wrote about HarperCollins's recent acquisition of Harlequin to...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksAuthors including Junot Díaz and Joyce Carol Oates sign letter protest PEN America’s freedom of expression award for French magazine More than two dozen writers including Junot Díaz, Joyce Carol Oates and Lorrie Moore have joined ...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comThe Emirate of Sharjah continues to position itself as a leading partner in the Middle East and Africa for writers, poets, intellectuals and lovers of the written word with the identity launch of the Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) and the ...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books news & info from Miami Herald in Miami, FL | MiamiHerald.com"It's a Long Story: My Life" by Willie Nelson with David Ritz; Little, Brown and Co. (464 pages, $30) … Click to Continue »
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsAll Quiet on the Western Front had its premiere in America on April 29 1930
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comHow seriously should you take this "love" thing? Some believe it to be a grave matter requiring scientific reflection. Einstein maintained, however, that you couldn't hold gravitation responsible for people falling in love. Love falls be...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'One of the most captivating books I've read' Continue reading...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from The Nook Blog
The Five Best Kids’ Books Set In New York City Hi! I’m Geoff Rodkey, author of THE TAPPER TWINS GO TO WAR (WITH EACH OTHER). It’s the first book in a new comedy series about 12-year-old siblings who live in […] - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsThe story (and various myths) of how Britain learnt that Wellington had won at Waterloo thrills Lewis Jones
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksFrom daydreaming about sex to the politics of tea-making, Melville’s reluctant scrivener to Sylvia Plath’s New York internship, here are some of the best books about the nine-to-five Continue reading...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comAmy Schumer strikes again -- making us laugh while also reminding us how ridiculous our beauty standards are. On an April 28 episode of the show on Comedy Central, Schumer parodied the (rather obnoxious) trend of men assuring women of th...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comIf Borges’s Library of Babel is a massive, amorphous store of written documents, Jonny Love’s Unconcious Library is the opposite. Although it houses over 100,000 books, ladders, and scrolls, it contains virtually no concrete information....
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksWant to know which of your favourite authors are going to be speaking at this year’s Yalc? Well then, read on! There’s much excitement in the YA world tonight with the announcement of the final roll call of over 60 YA authors heading for...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books news & info from Miami Herald in Miami, FL | MiamiHerald.com"The Lady from Zagreb" by Philip Kerr; Putnam (432 pages, $26.95) … Click to Continue »
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'This book just sparkles with imagination' Continue reading...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comI was excited when I discovered Sri Lanka: The New Country online. The book came out recently and -- having covered the country for many years -- seasoned journalist Padma Rao Sundarji seems well-placed to write a longer work on post-war...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsProto-Mommyblogger Dooce Quits the Blog (Boing Boing) After more than a decade of chronicling every detail of her life and those of her children, Heather B. Armstrong is stepping away from the blog as a fulltime job. *** Why Are Authors ...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comD ropping the word “enlightenment” into a novel’s title can be read as a provocation of sorts. It implies certain aspirations, certain promises of insight and revelatory character development. In Andrea Gillies’ The Enlightenment of Nina...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books news & info from Miami Herald in Miami, FL | MiamiHerald.comRussian law banning Nazi propaganda has succeeded in removing one of the greatest anti-Nazi chronicles from its bookshelves. … Click to Continue »
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books news & info from Miami Herald in Miami, FL | MiamiHerald.com"God Help the Child: A Novel" by Toni Morrison; Alfred A. Knopf (192 pages, $24.95) … Click to Continue »
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksChair of judges Bill Bryson says Coutts’ account of living with her husband’s illness and death is wise, moving and beautifully constructed Marion Coutts’ moving and unflinching account of her husband’s illness and death has won the 2015...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostAny admirer of Joseph Mitchell (1908-1996) will obviously want to check out Thomas Kunkel’s new biography of this most legendary of the New Yorker’s legendary writers. If, however, you’ve never read Mitchell, you should instead treat you...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from NYT > BooksAuthors explore the strangeness in everyday life, the mutability of time and memory, and the streets of London.
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from The eBook Reader BlogWith the Kobo Glo HD set to be released in a couple of days, Kobo has issued an update to officially add support for the Glo HD to Kobo’s software. The new 3.15 software also applies to the original Kobo Glo, Kobo Aura HD, Kobo Aur...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books news & info from Miami Herald in Miami, FL | MiamiHerald.comNAME: "Is This Thing On?" by Abby Stokes (Workman, 488 pp., $17.95) … Click to Continue »
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- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
When President Obama defeated Mitt Romney to win the 2012 election, ebook innovator Vook had two books standing at the ready. One was entitled Why Obama Lost, and the other was Why Romney Lost. Not very imaginative titles, to be sure, bu... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Candace's Book BlogI’ve been planning on writing up a post for authors about giveaways and what (in my experience) is the best way to go about having them. Instead of writing something up and putting it on my business page where only authors see it I...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
Melissa's memoir of her mom shows late, great Joan Rivers was even quirkier than we knew.
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from bookforum.comThe whole system is guilty as hell
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Vancouver Sun - BooksShelley Youngblut, founding editor of the Calgary Herald’s Swerve magazine and former western editor of the Globe and Mail, has been named interim general director of WordFest. The announcement came Wednesday from the literary fest...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsOne of the leading German digital booksellers has launched a self-publishing platform. Tolino Media is giving indie authors another way to distribute books in Germany, according to Publishing Perspectives. Publishing Perspectives says th...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from NYT > BooksMr. Gattis’s breakthrough novel is a gritty, nerve-racking tale of life in a gang-ravaged neighborhood of Los Angeles.
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsDC Comics are to introduce a new character to don Batman's mask and fight crime in Gotham City
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksAs creative subjects are being sidelined in Britain, teen site member Safah argues that art is crucial for young people, as a medium for expression, passion and emotion, and a means of challenging ourselves and the world around us Anyone...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'I would recommend this book to people who like surprising, scary stories' Continue reading...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comI met Jon Pressick a few years ago when I wrote a book about sex . That's what happens when you write a book about sex. You get to meet Jon Pressick. He has talked about sex to some of the coolest sex people in America, and lived to tell...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsDiscover the best of photography with our guide to the latest photo books and ebooks
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books news & info from Miami Herald in Miami, FL | MiamiHerald.comI was in Britain when I got the news that Ivan Doig was failing. I had read him, interviewed him and written about him for 16 years, and I didn't even know he was sick. I was gobsmacked, as the Brits would say, and very, very sad, becaus...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from bookforum.comYou lose, you snooze
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksA fast-paced account of Greenpeace activists’ ordeal in a Russian jail raises questions about the future of the environmental movement Continue reading...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
David Baldacci's thriller features a new character, Amos Decker.
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksWas Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone the defining children’s book of the 1990s? And how central was Adrian Mole to the 1980s? Continue reading...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from The Digital Reader
Google's policy of letting advertisers pay to appear next to specific search terms is coming back to haunt it. A user on Slashdot noticed yesterday that the lead result in the Google search results for the term "Armenia genocide" leads n... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from bookforum.com
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from bookforum.comBookstores in Moscow are removing copies of Art Spiegelman’s Maus from the shelves, because the graphic novel has a swastika on the cover. The author told The Guardian, “I don’t think Maus was the intended target for this, obviously. . ....
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsCoutts takes the £30,000 prize for The Iceberg, a memoir about her husband's illness
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsSales of audiobooks have doubled to £10 million since 2011, according to figures from the Publishers Association
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from The Digital Reader
Google’s Chrome web browser comes in 3 flavors for PCs: Stable, Beta, and Dev Channel. You can find the same 3 flavors of ChromeOS running on Chromebooks, and now Google has extended that to Android. Chrome users who want to get an early... - Monday, April 27, 2015 from Adobe Digital Publishing
We heard from some amazing companies at our annual DPS Symposia events. Companies that are pushing the boundaries of DPS to drive creative and business impact. - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedThere are three kinds of Muslims, according to Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s new book, Heretic. Yes, three kinds in a population of 1.6 billion followers of the faith who live in vastly different cultures and creeds. Firstly, she says, the fundament...
- Monday, April 27, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedAfter Birth is a novel that will provoke strong responses from its readers; it is gutsily and sometimes messily – as the case should be – feminist in its politics. Firstly, though, it's entertaining, funny and heartfelt. And, most import...
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Publishing PerspectivesTolino, a German alliance of booksellers, launched a self-publishing platform, Tolino Media, which has already attracted notable, self-published authors in Germany. The post Tolino Launches Self-Publishing Platform in Germany appeared fi...
- Monday, April 27, 2015 from RT Book ReviewsThe RT Convention is coming up fast!
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksDavid Cole So how should the Court navigate between the demands of constitutional doctrine, and several of the Justices’ political reluctance to resolve this issue? The answer, I think, is straightforward. There is no neutral position. E...
- Monday, April 27, 2015 from OmnivoraciousWe all have little bit of animal inside us. Some romance heroes and heroines, however, have a lot more.
- Monday, April 27, 2015 from GalleyCatAmanda Berry and Gina DeJesus , two of three women who were kidnapped and held captive for a decade by bus driver Ariel Castro in Cleveland, OH, have penned a book. “Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland” (Viking), which wa...
- Monday, April 27, 2015 from BookMarketingBuzzBlog1. What inspired you to write your newest story? I have always been interested in novels set in academia as well as literary crime novels, and What Has Become of You gives the reader a bit of both. Due to a...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Book Patrol
We can’t let National Poetry Month go by without a taste of some of the poetry goodness that lives within the confines of the Digital Public Library of America. From the postcard above featuring an excerpt from a poem by Alex Calde... - Monday, April 27, 2015 from Breaking news on literature - breakingnews.comNovelist and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Don Mankiewicz dies at 93 - @latimes
- Monday, April 27, 2015 from GalleyCatPEN American Center is holding its Freedom of Expression Courage Award ceremony in New York next week their decision to honor the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo is causing a stir. A number of writers have backed out of the even...
- Monday, April 27, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedSalman Rushide has accused fellow authors, including Peter Carey and Michael Ondaatje, of being “pussies” for boycotting an event organised by the free-speech organisation PEN at which the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is to be...
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsIn a future dictatorship, detective Victor Vale starts questioning authority when, to infiltrate a dissident cell, he goes undercover as a writer. Readers may be strongly reminded of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 —not so much by any Brad...
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsAn entertaining adventure tale steeped in literary history tells of rival book pirates seeking their biggest prize, the last novel of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94). Pearl ( The Technologists , 2012, etc.) extrapolates from a scrap of ...
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from GalleyCatThe title and cover for the tenth installment of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series has been unveiled. For this new book, series creator Jeff Kinney will push protagonist Greg Heffley into an “Old School” adventure. We’ve embed...
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsLucas Davenport, of Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, celebrates his 25th appearance by crossing state and jurisdictional lines in pursuit of a killer who’s made the pursuit personal. Lucas’ adopted daughter, Letty, first hear...
- Monday, April 27, 2015 from BISGIn This Issue: At BISG and Around the Industry: Calendar Listings - BISG Committee Meetings - Other BISG Events - Industry Calendar: Conferences and Events What Our Committees Did April Standards Focus: Metadata BISG Wrapped: Recent...
- Monday, April 27, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedOn Tuesday 25 October 1859, the Royal Charter steam clipper skimmed over the Irish Sea on her way home to Liverpool. Sleek and swift, the Royal Charter was a star of her class. Half a century before Titanic, she ran like a graceful float...
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsAn exploration of race relations in Louisiana from multiple perspectives, including those of a 12-year-old white girl and her family’s African-American housekeeper. In the early 1990s, Mary Jacob Ascher (nee Long) gets a call from her ol...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedWhile with most writers it is a risky business looking for clues to their life in their art, for Saul Bellow the risk is somewhat lower, since the boundaries between his life and his writing are at times paper-thin. Cheating wives, backs...
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsFourth-grader “Derek” works his way through a batting slump, pulls an outsider into his circle of friends, and atones for being a bully in this semiautobiographical sequel co-authored by the recently retired Yankees captain. The actual s...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedSorry Bruce Wayne, there’s going to be a new Batman roaming the streets of Gotham City.
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Book Patrol
Once upon a time flying wasn’t such a hassle. At its height the airline industry was the bees knees of postwar culture. From the mid-forties to the the mid-seventies flying was the way to go. The world got smaller as new opportunit... - Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsIn this retelling of “The Brave Little Tailor,” a young woman comes to the rescue of a city that’s besieged by giants. Saville, a tailor’s daughter, picks up the ruined pieces of her family’s livelihood after her father suffers an apople...
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsThe persecutor becomes the persecuted when personal texts and emails are leaked, outing Regan Flay as the scheming mean girl she really is. Life for Regan is about perfection at all costs. Following in her congresswoman mother’s politica...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Publishing TechnologyLast week Amazon surprised everyone who watches ‘The Everything Store’s’ activities by releasing its latest set of financial results with…
- Monday, April 27, 2015 from Flavorwire » Books
Six writers — Teju Cole, Rachel Kushner, Michael Ondaatje, Francine Prose, Peter Carey, and Taiye Selasi — will … Read More
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from The Asian Writerby CG Menon It isn’t until she gets to the bus stop that Malathy knows her feet are wrong. They’re aching a little and bulging from their lace-up shoes under the hem of her sari, but that’s not it. Perhaps they’re just ...
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsMagical animals abound in Pip’s world, and she loves them all—especially since she can talk to them. Not that anyone believes her, because everyone knows that magical animals can’t talk. But her unique ability comes in superhandy when th...
- Monday, April 27, 2015 from Whatever
Edmund Schubert, editor of Intergalactic Medicine Show, has withdrawn from consideration for the Best Editor Hugo (short form). He posted a letter about it on Alethea Kontis’ site, but technical problems have made it difficult to a...
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsA three-generation family chronicle by a first-time writer inspired by her grandmother’s diary and published by a small press operated by college students might not entice the average reader, but it works out surprisingly well. Charley B...
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsHow science, religion and politics shaped Einstein’s life and work. As part of the Jewish Lives Series, Gimbel (Philosophy/Gettysburg Coll.; Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion , 2012, et...
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Farm Lane Books Blog » Farm Lane Books Blog
The Wellcome Prize celebrates the best new books that engage with some aspect of medicine, health or illness. Last year the prize was awarded to Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon, one of the most impressive books I’ve ever read. ... - Monday, April 27, 2015 from Poets and WritersAlanna Lin Ramage is a writer, songwriter, and artist-in-residence at the Los Angeles Little Tokyo Branch Library, where she hosts innovative, community-building events and workshops at the Los Angeles Department of Writing and Power &nb...
- Monday, April 27, 2015 from GalleyCatSome bibliophiles like to sell their old books. Others transform them into gorgeous artistic pieces . One Japanese craftsman restores them beautifully. According to RocketNews24.com , Nobuo Okano , a Tokyo-based craftsman, has the abilit...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Adobe Digital Publishing
ExxonMobil offers a modern experience for engaging prospective employees with an Adobe DPS built mobile app. - Monday, April 27, 2015 from Whatever
Because it’s pretty, that’s why. You’re welcome! - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedMarion Coutts was tonight named winner of the medically-themed Wellcome Trust Book Prize for The Iceberg which she wrote about her husband's, The Independent' s art critic Tom Lubbock, life with, and eventual death from, a brain tumour.
- Monday, April 27, 2015 from Writing.ie
Winner of Ballymaloe Poetry Prize of €10,000 announced The winner of the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize – one of the most valuable prizes in the world for a single unpublished poem – was announced at a special event at the Irish W... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Book Patrol
A new report by the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS) and the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) has found that financial fraud, waste, and mismanagement by charter schools has already cost taxpayers more than $200 million. The repo... - Monday, April 27, 2015 from Poets and WritersStaff Against age-based awards; Fred Moten’s poetry; the challenges of writing Saul Bellow’s biography; and other news. Page 1 This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headl...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedWhile you don’t expect to enjoy a biography of a Nazi leader, reading Peter Longerich’s lengthy biography of Joseph Goebbels is a grueling experience. This is partly because Longerich’s prose, translated from German by three people, some...
- Monday, April 27, 2015 from GalleyCatIn honor of National Poetry Month, we’ve dug up a video of actress Amber Tamblyn reading her original poem “Dear Demographic.” Throughout the performance, Tamblyn’s mother Bonnie plays the guitar. The “Dear Demogr...
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Publishing PerspectivesPart 2 of our series looking at how small Venezuelan publishers are surviving and amid challenges looks at Lector Complice and Negro sobre Blanco. The post How to Survive a Crisis: Venezuelan Publishers Tell All (Part 2) appeared first o...
- Monday, April 27, 2015 from Technology for Publishing LLC » Blog
If you work in the content business, you know the rules change daily (see my latest article, Top 5 Shifts Publishers Can’t Ignore). That’s why this month we bring you a recommended reading list that can help you not only adap... - Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Whatever
“Worldbuilding” isn’t always about building a world — sometimes it’s about taking the world and tearing it down it in one way or another. Lev AC Rosen wanted to use New York City for his novel Depth, but fir... - Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Publishing PerspectivesMore than money, crowdfunding offers valuable feedback to authors, as they learn the fundamentals of speaking directly to readers, argues Deborah Emin. The post Crowdfunding as a Source of Book Marketing Power appeared first on Publishin...
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from The Asian Review of Books Feedreviewed by Peter Gordon. Fatima Bhutto's The Shadow of the Crescent Moon has recently been released in a US edition. Since many readers may therefore be encountering the novel for the first time, here is our original review from Novembe...
- Monday, April 27, 2015 from Bloggin' 'bout Books(Image from Barnes & Noble ) Still grieving the death of her marriage, lonely Rachel Watson finds comfort in routine. Every weekday morning, she boards the 8:04 train that runs to London from her home in Buckinghamshire. ...
