May 7, 2019
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1. Nicole Brossard Receives Canada’s Lifetime Griffin Trust Award for Poetry 2. Siddhartha Mukherjee Receives Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science 3. Nikki Haley is writing a book about her time in the Trump administration 4. Barcelona school removes … Continue reading
January 1, 2019
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1. Amos Oz, Author Who Chronicled Israel’s Struggles, Dead at 79 and 2. Former Irish Times critic Eileen Battersby dies following car crash 3, From Trump to #MeToo, publishing made headlines in 2018 4. Mamamia website apologizes for ‘cruel and … Continue reading
September 11, 2018
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1. Gaiman and Murakami shortlisted for Nobel Prize substitute 2. Maldives bookseller advert ‘overwhelmed’ by applications 3. JD Salinger’s teenage lover challenges her ‘predator’ reputation 4. In ‘Fear,’ Bob Woodward Pulls Back the Curtain on President Trump 5. Waterstones buys … Continue reading
June 20, 2017
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1.Israeli author David Grossman wins Man Booker International prize 2.20,000 Libraries are Participating in the World’s Largest Book Club 3.Korean ebook platform Ridibooks raises $20m in fresh funds 4.‘Trump’ children’s word of the year 5.Closing store giving away 30,000 books … Continue reading
March 21, 2017
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1.Trump Proposes Eliminating the Arts and Humanities Endowments 2.Man Booker International 2017 longlist includes Amos Oz and banned writer 3.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie clarifies transgender comments as backlash grows 4.Cory Doctorow Launches a Bookstore Where Authors Sell on Behalf of Publishers … Continue reading
February 20, 2017
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Came across an interesting interview with Javier Marias, the celebrated Spanish novelist, translator and columnist. “Literature does not explain, but it shows the world, and how we work. Shows the mystery, as it were, and helps us to understand a … Continue reading
January 31, 2017
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1.Author sued for making children’s version of the classics 2.Howard Jacobson writes Donald Trump novella Pussy in ‘a fury of disbelief’ 3.Comics will no longer have NY Times Bestseller Lists 4.Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 surge after Kellyanne Conway’s ‘alternative … Continue reading
January 19, 2017
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In Lie to Me: Fiction in the Post Truth Era, Adam Kirsch presents the problems that writers have faced and continue to face. What can be taken at face value and what is credible? How do you make sense of the … Continue reading
November 15, 2016
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1. Leonard Cohen, influential singer and songwriter, dies at the age of 82 2.Publishers react to Trump presidency 3. Rising paper prices hit print book industry 4. Sharjah Publishing City: World’s first free trade zone for the books industry 5.Italy’s eighteen … Continue reading
August 2, 2016
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1.Man Booker Prize announces 2016 Longlist 2.Brief History of Time app from Transworld 3.A short story by Mahasweti Devi, renowned author and social activist in India, who passed away recently 4.Harry Potter and the Cursed Child script breaks preorder records … Continue reading