Dear BookBrowsers, Percival Everett, a quietly prolific writer of noteworthy novels over the past four decades, may have gained a new audience from the recent Oscar-nominated film American Fiction, based on his... Read more »
Random House Is buying Boom! Studios Jul 10 2024 Penguin Random House continues its renewed emphasis of making strategic acquisitions with a new agreement to acquire comic book and graphic novel publisher... Read more »
Small press community slowly builds back after SPD failure Jul 02 2024 A little more than three months after Small Press Distribution abruptly closed, leaving some 400 independent presses without a trade... Read more »
Attack on Ukrainian printing plant disrupts publishing industry Jul 08 2024 On May 23, Russian missiles targeted the Factor Druk printing plant, one of the largest such plants in Europe and a... Read more »
That people love to ask novelists to name their favourite novel has always struck me as odd – a bit like asking a passionate traveller to pick a single favourite destination or... Read more »
The daughter of the Nobel prize winner Alice Munro, Andrea Robin Skinner, has alleged that her stepfather sexually abused her as a child, and that her mother stayed with him even after... Read more »
“Though the heat wave will break, you won’t notice a difference because it’ll still be hot.” Source link Read more »
“Read with the mind-set of a carpenter looking at trees,” Terry Pratchett once wrote, and before I set about the carpentry of writing, with the dawning freakout of each new deadline, one... Read more »
Date and Time July 11–12, 202412:00–4:00 p.m. ET Overview The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) will host a virtual workshop on the placebo effect. The purpose of this workshop is to bring... Read more »