- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
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People are always like, Children should come with instruction manuals, ha ha ha *sob* because once you have children, your ability to make fresh and funny jokes dies in a fire. But also, that is bullshit because they do, they … Con... - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsA daughter’s journey to claim her identity. Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Smith (Creative Writing/Princeton Univ.; Life on Mars , 2011, etc.) grew up in Fairfield, California, a solidly middle-class suburb, with four older siblings a...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedFamous authors will be giving live tours of the areas that they write on Periscope, in one of the first major uses of the new livestreaming app.
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Buzzfeed — that ever expanding empire of not-just-lists — is further broadening its reach: it’ll soon be starting a literary magazine, with - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors Tweets"@zeeaziz:been a huge fan for almost 20 yrs, i first read body of evidence then instantly hooked.i've read 'em all & can't wait for more!"
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Cuddlebuggery Book Blog
I read Black Ice with a lot of hopes. Hopes […] Author information Kat Kennedy Co-blogger at Cuddlebuggery Kat Kennedy is a book reviewer and aspiring author in the Young Adult genre. She reviews critically but humorously and get s... - Friday, April 3, 2015 from BookMarketingBuzzBlogIn the latest battleground to test the limits of free speech, the Supreme Court of the United States is reviewing a Texas case regarding vanity license plates. This case involves the use of a Confederate flag on a license plate. An...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Flavorwire » Books
For many, Patricia Arquette’s character made the movie Boyhood. After a seeming acting dry spell (though she was on Boardwalk Empire just before … Read More - Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors TweetsHey @Connellybooks is it normal to have a crush on a fictional character? Thanks for the merch! pic.twitter.com/hbbhdjPnoZ
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Book Portal Site
A prize judge described Davidson/Cutter's work as a "brilliant and terrifying classic." - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksDiane Ravitch To the Editors : I read the exchange between Joel Klein and Jonathan Zimmerman concerning me. I want to set the record straight.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from BOOK RIOT
This week’s featured book trailer is for Normal by Graeme Cameron. Check it out: ____________________ “The truth is I hurt people. It’s what I do. It’s all I do. It’s all I’ve ever done.” He live... - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Katie's Book Blog
I was pretty skeptical when I started Red Queen. I had heard extremely mixed things about it. I was looking for a good fantasy read at the time and I’m glad I set aside my skepticism and gave Red Queen a chance. I adored it and ... - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedIn the title story of Salley Vickers' new collection, The Boy Who Could See Death, the novelist tells the tale of Eli, who is seven years old when he predicts the death of his friend Tommy, who falls out of his treehouse and breaks his n...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from OmnivoraciousNew York Times, USA Today, IndieReader and internationally best-selling author Monica Murphy is a native Californian who lives in the foothills below Yosemite with her husband and three children. She’s a workaholic who loves her job. Whe...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksDr. Ismail Salami, reply by Stephen Greenblatt To the Editors : I am sorry to see an article by my colleague Professor Stephen Greenblatt in your journal titled “Shakespeare in Tehran” whose content is a departure from the views he expre...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors TweetsIt was #HumpDay sizzle on @OutnumberedFNC when @BradThor and @KatiePavlich joined the coach.Great talk among friends! pic.twitter.com/inMa8AcaWo
- Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors TweetsAbsolutely heimliched.
- Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors TweetsKnow a school library in need? Nominate it for a grant! http://www.scholastic.com/pattersonpartnership/ … pic.twitter.com/5MMj94qD4H
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsA Spokane college graduate searches for wealth and fame in LA but finds only a string of dead-end jobs and outlandish individuals in Jans’ witty debut drama. In 1987, Jack Fitzpatrick’s plans to be rich and famous are off to a good start...
- Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from OmnivoraciousKeeping the Best YA Books of April list to six titles required some major agonizing given the number of really strong contenders this month, especially in contemporary fiction...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksJanet Malcolm Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker by Thomas Kunkel The idea that reporters are constantly resisting the temptation to invent is a laughable one. Reporters don’t invent because they don’t know how to. This is...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Children's Book CouncilToronto, Canada – Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana Enterprises, one of the world’s leading international producers and distributors of children’s animated content, is partnering with internationally renowned actress and author Julie Andrews...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedFew images are perhaps more frightening than the one that is about to stare Judge Dredd comic readers in the face.
- Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors TweetsReally fun having @BradThor on the show today! http://instagram.com/p/08aSeAkmRu/
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Book Patrol
Art on Chairs is an international event that promotes design and contemporary creativity as driving forces for innovation in industry and development in Paredes, a Portuguese municipality committed to the production of high-qualit... - Friday, April 3, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedFans of late fantasy writer Terry Pratchett have taken to the streets of London and Bristol to create some appropriately colourful artworks in tribute.
- Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors TweetsRaheem Sterling. What a shit.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors Tweets@BernieMcGuirk on Imus reports on @BradThor 's reaction on @OutnumberedFNC 2 flap ovr @Trevornoah contrvrsl comments. @ComedyCentral b fair.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from The Asian Review of Books Feedreviewed by John W. W. Zeiser. In his study Korea: The Politics of the Vortex,the late Gregory Henderson observed of Korea that foreign threat[s]... produced both a perceived and a subconscious drive for unity.This need for unity manifes...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsThe “first full-length biography” of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin offers much nuance and complexity to the killer, bordering on the downright sympathetic. Reams have been written about John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), who was shot in the ens...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksAlisa Solomon, reply by Robert Brustein To the Editors : I appreciate that Robert Brustein admired my writing and research for Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof , but am beyond bewildered that he found it “bewi...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Candace's Book BlogI picked up Love Handles because it was inexpensive to buy the kindle book and audiobook. I like romantic comedies and thought it would be a fun read. Unfortunately this book didn’t work so well for me. I can say it’s definit...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedOddly, I have never read Irvine Welsh, though I did see Danny Boyle's film of his comico-prurient first novel Trainspotting, about smack addicts glamorously adrift in mid-1980s Edinburgh. This, Welsh's tenth, A Decent Ride, is more of th...
- Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedPatrick Gale's eagerly awaited new novel is a departure in many senses. His first for Tinder Press, his first truly historical novel, it begins in Edwardian England before setting sail for the western prairies of Canada. The opening scen...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsNaidoo and Grobler follow up their Afrocentric collection of Aesop’s Fables (2011) with a fresh set of tales drawn from Amharic, Luo, Zulu and other traditions. “Once, Lion wanted to check that all the animals knew who was boss. So he we...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors TweetsAlmost show time @AmericanIdol don't blink and you'll see me at the piano playing one of my arrangements. Tweet me when u see it. #surprises
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from BOOK RIOT
April showers bring awesome translations…that’s how the expression goes, right? RIGHT. This month, keep an eye out for the following works from Italy, France, Korea, and Switzerland. And thanks to your input on my ongoing ... - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors TweetsLivestreaming is going literary, with Jodi Picoult and Ian Rankin http://ind.pn/1FkQKKW pic.twitter.com/savg8DKwev
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Children's Book CouncilBurbank, CA/New York, NY – “Fancy Nancy,” the New York Times bestselling book series by Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser, has been optioned by Disney Junior for development of an original animated TV movie and ser...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedWhere are you now and what can you see?
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksHarry Boyte, Albert Dzur, and Peter Levine, reply by Michael Walzer To the Editors : Michael Walzer points to a central problem with Cass Sunstein’s perspective: the assumption that what is needed is to improve procedures of group decisi...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksHugh Eakin To the Editors : Several Norwegian readers have commented on a confusing reference to recent hate speech legislation in my article “Norway: The Two Faces of Extremism.” To clarify, Norwegian law has long drawn a distinction be...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Paulo Coelho's Blog“We are afraid to change because we think that, after much effort and sacrifice, we know our present world. And even though that world might not be the best of all worlds and even though we may not be entirely satisfied with it, at...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Haaretz.com Books'The Last Flight of Poxl West' is an inventive meta-fiction that incorporates Holocaust history and memory and blurs truth and fiction.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Dear Author
Play Reimagining ‘Three’s Company’ Wins Case – This is sort of a good news/bad news situation. The good news is that the play “3C,” which parodies the television series “Three’s Company,” has prevailed... - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from AbeBooks' Reading Copy
April 23 is UNESCO’s World Book and Copyright Day when literature and literacy is celebrated around the globe. This year, this special day will have a strong rare book flavor thanks to more than a dozen pop-up book fairs organized by the... - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors Tweets"@1Sherrie1: Finally finished the book I got for Christmas. That ending though!!!!! I need the next book YESTERDAY!!! #Suspense"on the way
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsA radical shift in thinking about climate change from Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia theory. Readers who devoured The Revenge of Gaia (2006) or The Vanishing Face of Gaia (2009) are familiar with the scienti...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksFormer poet laureate wins annual prize established by his successor for radio project’s ‘skilful shaping’ and ‘magical transformation’ of conversations Andrew Motion has won the Ted Hughes award for new work in poetry for a radio program...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsSo the battle over book pricing may have started a bit earlier this spring. Last year it wasn’t in full swing until May. This year is starting with April, assuming the Business Insider article yesterday wasn’t an April Fool&#...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > BooksA boy searches for his young drug-addicted mother employed at a remote industrial farm.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from bookforum.comWe live in an age when all manner of scientific knowledge — from climate change to vaccinations — faces furious opposition
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comMany writers are opposed to writing for free, and I don't blame them. It's nice to get paid for our work, and "exposure" won't pay the bills. But, sometimes a silly blog submitted on a prominent site can result in unexpected income. A fe...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Digital Book World
The tablet market may be slowing, but notebooks appear to be doing worse. According to new figures from ABI research, notebooks are ceding market share to other mobile computing devices. Analysts estimate that by 2016, notebooks will acc... - Friday, April 3, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comBy F. Scott Fitzgerald / Scribner Magazine This is the first in a coming series of Scribner features on F. Scott Fitzgerald to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby. Who hasn't tried new ways to save money...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostChildlessness may be one of the last vibrant taboos in our culture. Women, especially, who don’t have children are still regarded as somehow incomplete or thwarted, even by liberal and tolerant people. It may be that childless women are ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > BooksDennis Lehane’s new novel continues the sweeping fathers-and-sons tale started in “The Given Day” and “Live by Night.”
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from NYT > BooksTwo new books on the Islamic State provide a fine-grained look at the organization’s history and metastasis, and how to fight it.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Publishing PerspectivesPublishing Perspectives and Publishing Technology co-publish a white paper based on Publishing Technology's research on 'How Millennials Consume Content' and findings from experts in media, marketing, and technology on how to reach this ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > BooksHere, the screenwriter of “28 Days Later,” “Never Let Me Go” and “Dredd” on his five favorite genre offerings.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from globeandmail - Books & MediaJane Urquhart’s new novel, The Night Stages, is being published this month
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from GalleyCatChildren’s book publisher Capstone is offering a fellowship for authors and illustrators. The Capstone Fellowship in Children’s Literature will be awarded to children’s authors and illustrators “whose stories entertain and in...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comFaye Dunaway may finally open up about what really went on behind the scenes of the 1981 camp classic, "Mommie Dearest." Publisher’s Lunch mentioned the prospective memoir in a recent newsletter, according to Queerty: Academy Award winni...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksEveryone knows about the sex and drugs – but John Szwed’s biography makes the case for Holiday as a complex artist who inspired in many different directions Continue reading...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Publishing PerspectivesIllustrated books and textbooks, far more than novels, require more effort produce and updated digital tools are necessary to make that process easier. The post Making Digital Proofreading Easier for Illustrated Books, Textbooks appeared...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > BooksAbigail Thomas’s third memoir both records and laments the passage of time.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksPaula Hawkins’s acclaimed thriller becomes runaway hit worldwide, outdoing ‘even The Da Vinci Code’ in hardback sales Readers’ insatiable appetite for the darkest of domestic dramas has sent Paula Hawkins’s very English thriller about a ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from globeandmail - Books & MediaThrough his satire, the author flawlessly depicts what it means to exist in a culture saturated with negative stereotypes
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comThe Harder They Come by T.C. Boyle Ecco, $26.00 Published March 31, 2015 The Bottom Line is a weekly review combining plot description and analysis with fun tidbits about the book. What we think: The Harder They Come opens with an act of...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > BooksIn 1915, the Germans turned for the first time to weapons that targeted civilians as well as soldiers.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The Digital Reader
Battery life is the Achilles heel of all mobile devices, and while the latest battery tech research coming out of California won't fix the problem it is a step in the right direction. Gizmodo reports that a research team at UCLA Berkeley... - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from TODAY BooksIf the walls in your home are as empty as a Ben & Jerry’s carton after a good chick flick, Joy Cho is here to help. The popular blogger behind the lifestyle site “Oh Joy” is releasing a new book under the same name. In it, readers ca...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from GalleyCatSeveral changes have been made to the staff at Hachette Book Group USA. Seven current members of the Grand Central Publishing division have received promotions. Madeleine Colavita moves up to assistant editor at the Forever imprint. Over...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsBudapest isn’t necessarily the place where you expect to find a Robert Aickman gem, but lucky me: while browsing for English book for my daughters, I came across a copy of The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, selected an...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comMental health disorders can be so complex that many adults can't comprehend them. So, how exactly do you explain them to children? Army veteran Seth Kastle encountered this problem with his own young family after returning from deploymen...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Digital Book World
Adjusting to the digital market means continuously recalibrating investments to support strategic goals and the organizational resources for pursuing them. Bibliocloud founder Emma Barnes sees those costs as amounting to a “strategy tax”... - Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > BooksA threatened Mexican clan seeks the safety of exile.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > BooksThis season will bring new biographies of Ty Cobb and Billy Martin, and a memoir by Pedro Martinez.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from GalleyCatCharlotte’s Web by EB White has been voted the most popular children’s book ever, according to a new survey from BBC. To come up with the list, BBC Culture’s Jane Ciabattari polled dozens of critics from around the globe. These exp...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > BooksAlabama officials have closed an investigation into a complaint that Harper Lee may have not capable of authorizing the publication of her second novel, set to be released in July.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Technology for Publishing LLC » Blog
News Companies in the Movie Business, Pros and Cons of Responsive Design, Adobe Comp, Pew Study on Mobile Use, Exceptional Women in Publishing Conference, TFP’s Infographic Pick of the Week, InDesign CC Tip: Create a Table Without ... - Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > BooksAyaan Hirsi Ali, whose “Heretic” is No. 8 on the hardcover nonfiction list, applied for work with left-leaning think tanks when she moved to America in 2007, but found no takers.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > BooksNew books by Frances E. Jensen, Norman Doidge and Michael S. Gazzaniga.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsThe UK publishing industry appears to be in rude (or at least, moderately insulting) good health, according to figures from the Nielsen conference BookInsights, quoted in Publishing Perspectives and The Bookseller. The Nielsen numbers ci...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from The Nook Blog
Free Fridays April 3, 2015: Today’s Free Fridays book selection is A GOOD DEBUTANTE’S GUIDE TO RUIN, a historical romance novel by Sophie Jordan from HarperCollins. Free Fridays April 3, 2015: Toda... - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The Digital Reader
OneNote users have long been able to take a photo with their camera, clean it up automatically, and scan it into their notes, but that used to require the OneNote app itself. Now they can use Office Lens, a new scanning app which Microso... - How did this book not win awards?!
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Book Publishing on Huffington Post
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksA city of books as much as a capital of music and culture, our round-up of the best literature about the Big Easy has been filled out with readers’ recommendations. Here are some of the best Susan Larson introduces the literature of New ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsYes, people, it’s that Hugos time again, when a once-great platform for the discovery and commemoration of great speculative writing reveals just how debased and degraded it has become. And provides a ringside seat for the sordid l...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostGretchen Rubin has a slight frame, a fast mouth and an energetic zeal when talking about her new book, for which she was once again part researcher and part guinea pig. Better Than Before in many respects picks up where her earlier body ...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'One of the best books I have read' Continue reading...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe phrase ‘slippery slope’ is used all the time in public debate, but the argument behind it is a fallacy Public debate is a risky business: everyone is in danger of plummeting cartoonishly down icy inclines. That, at least, is the...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from GalleyCatThe Paris Review and The Standard, East Village (a hotel in New York City) seek candidates for its Writing Residency program. Each applicant must send in an excerpt from the work-in-progress project, a letter from a publishing house to v...
