In “Rebel Girl,” the punk frontwoman reveals the story of her life — the men who tried to stop her, the women who kept her going and the boy who made her a mother.
“Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other,” the author’s new collection, ranges from a playful one-act drama set in a lake to short fiction rife with apocalyptic anxiety.
Every year, millions flock to Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to visit the house known as Shakespeare’s Birthplace. But was he really born there? A whole industry depends on it.
The public library is one of the ways that savvy users can get free audiobooks and ebooks. They can be read on your smartphone, tablet or e-readers. Kobo e-readers are especially good since they have Overdrive integration in all their...
In this flawed but powerful book, a housing lawyer argues that an abundance of private landlords, not a dearth of homes, is to blame for the miseries of ‘generation rent’ Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the housing crisis could be solved...
This is what I get for taking redeye flights and then daysleeping to catch up on all the sleep I didn’t get on my flight. Today a total wash-out for braining. The song above captures my general state at the moment. I’ll be...
Isobel Abulhoul, who founded the Emirates LitFest and Magrudy’s bookstore chain, focuses on turning children into readers. The post The Power of Books: Isobel Abulhoul on Engaging Young Readers appeared first on Publishing Perspectives .
The event had been set for April 29, but weeks of escalating criticism of the organization’s response to the war had led nearly half of the prize nominees to withdraw.
Dozens of nominated writers had withdrawn from consideration by literary and free-expression organization The writers group PEN America canceled its 2024 annual awards on Monday, just a week before the ceremony, after facing widespread...
Organizers of the 2024 Sharjah Booksellers Conference are anticipating several hundred attendees taking part in this year's edition. The post Sharjah Booksellers Conference Releases Its 2024 Agenda appeared first on Publishing...
• Just two months after news broke that the Victorian TV crime series Miss Scarlet and the Duke would be losing actor Stuart Martin , who personated London police detective William “Duke” Wellington during that show’s initial four...
The Dasung 133 is unique in that it happens to be both an E Ink tablet and a monitor at the same time. This dual functionality makes it one of the most versatile E Ink devices you can have at the moment. But does that hold true in the...
Espousing his ideas in best sellers, he insisted that religion was an illusion, free will was a fantasy and evolution could only be explained by natural selection.
Every so often I get an email from a client or a potential client with questions about Google Search Console. This is a free service from Google which you can use to monitor how your website appears in Google’s search results. It will...
I noticed over the past week that Amazon has been putting the Kindle Scribe on sale, but they’re only doing it for maybe a few hours each day. I don’t understand the point of putting it on sale off and on each day, but...
The PublisHer program for women in the book business presents events for women at Sharjah's upcoming Booksellers Conference. The post At Sharjah’s Booksellers Conference: The ‘PublisHer Lounge’ appeared first on...
Rather than being an optional extra, dreams might be vital to our functioning Exposed, the undulating surface of the brain is shimmering and opalescent, punctuated with arteries and veins. Give any part of it the tiniest jolt of...
Following the adoption of the new Hong Kong Security Law on March 19, the European & International Booksellers Federation and the International Publishers Association expressed concerns about the limits this law will create on the...
PEN America has canceled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony, which was previously scheduled to be held at the Town Hall in New York City on April 29, although some awards will still be conferred. The move follows months of steadily...
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Draft2Digital is now distributing to Fable. Jonathan Bailey delves into why the Kindle Store is over run with spam ebooks. Here’s more on the spam ebook problem in the Kindle...
A fresh spin on the sonnet, this subtle contemplation of art, love and language makes the poem into a home Ars Poetica, XI This is the myth of love’s tenderness: that it only heals and cannot wound. After thirty years of spinning around...
Thank you to everyone who made the 1937 Club such a success. I think it’s our highest number of reviews yet. Karen and I have chatted and the next club year, in October, will be… the 1970 Club! Looking forward
A publisher and his authors debate the balance of power between reader and writer in a novel comprising three long, loosely linked tales Early in the UK-based Indian writer Neel Mukherjee’s new novel, Ayush, an editor at a “self-styled...
Amazon is the largest company that offers unlimited service, where, for a low monthly fee, you can access more than 4 million digital books, as well as thousands of audiobooks, comics, and magazines. Once you activate your subscription,...
Overdrive has just announced that they have signed a deal with Macmillan to participate in their Cost-Per-Circ program for libraries. This is a relatively new initiative, it is good for libraries since all of the Macmillian audiobooks...
Cato Pedder, great-granddaughter of South African PM and white supremacist Jan Smuts, uses her family’s legacy to unearth stories of women that shaped, and were shaped by, a troubled nation On 29 May this year, South Africans will go to...
Lois Lowry’s Tree. Table. Book. will captivate readers as they reflect on the vagaries of history and the beauty of friendship, which are so poignantly conveyed in this timeless tale.
With a smart, steadfast heroine, a charming love interest and compelling side characters, Song of the Six Realms is a dazzling, dreamlike escape into a world of powerful poetry, godly magic and humble heroism.
1. What inspired you to write this book? I wrote this book for my nephew, Neo. I wrote it during the pandemic when we were all stuck indoors. I wanted to be able to give my nephew the sense of adventure without...
At the L.A. Times Festival of Books, playwright and filmmaker David Mamet blames age, not his conservative politics or inflammatory statements, for his fall from grace.
1. What inspired you to write this book? My book is inspired by the celebration of kindness. I was sent to boarding school at age six, a long way from home. It soon became apparent that kindness was the best way to...
In the final afternoon of the 1937 Club, I’m writing about the most obscure of my choices this week – Ursula Torday’s No Peace for the Wicked. It’s one of three novels that Torday wrote under her own name in the