Roy Miller's Blog, page 152
June 22, 2017
Bookstore News: June 22, 2017
This content was originally published by on 22 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Dallas’s Interabang to open soon; ABFEE’s director is leaving; Macmillan offers special terms for new stores; a bookstore thrives on the Jersey shore; and more. Dallas Bookstore to Open July 1: Interabang Books, managed by veteran bookseller Jeremy Ellis, is […]
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What Hath Jobs Wrought? – 1A
This content was originally published by on 22 June 2017 | 3:06 pm. Source link Think back ten years. If someone told you then that within the next decade, you would have a device that fits in your pocket, lets you play any song, watch any movie or take a really good photo, you might’ve […]
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Preparing for Twitter Pitching Contests, Including #SFFpit This Week!
This content was originally published by Guest Column on 22 June 2017 | 1:21 pm. Source link In recent years, Twitter pitching events have gained enormous popularity as a means to connect authors with literary agents. The idea is simple: on a pre-arranged day, authors seeking representation for a completed manuscript pitch it under a […]
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9 New Books We Recommend This Week
This content was originally published by on 22 June 2017 | 7:38 pm. Source link DESTINED FOR WAR: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?, by Graham Allison. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28.) Considering China’s rise, Allison offers erudite historical case studies that illuminate the pressure toward military confrontation when a rising power challenges a dominant […]
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How a Small Press Landed a Big Fish in Naomi Klein
This content was originally published by on 22 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link After being tapped by the activist and author to handle the U.S. edition of her anti-Trump book ‘No Is Not Enough,’ Chicago’s Haymarket Books collaborated with Knopf Canada and the U.K.’s Allen Lane to crash the title, which hit shelves […]
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Poetry Slam Inc: Poetry Spotlight
This content was originally published by Robert Lee Brewer on 22 June 2017 | 7:48 pm. Source link One of the great strengths of poetry is its diversity, but I admit that I don’t give quite enough attention to slam poetry. That changes today as I spotlight Poetry Slam Inc. As always, I appreciate the […]
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In ‘Memory’s Last Breath,’ Remembering Life, Before It’s Too Late
This content was originally published by JENNIFER SENIOR on 22 June 2017 | 8:35 pm. Source link She learned she had microvascular disease. Apart from Alzheimer’s, it’s the greediest thief of memory there is. It turns out that there’s more than one way to dement. Continue reading the main story Saunders’s memoir is an attempt […]
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Emma Straub: By the Book
This content was originally published by on 22 June 2017 | 9:00 am. Source link Which writers — novelists, playwrights, critics, journalists, poets — working today do you admire most? Continue reading the main story The contemporary critics and journalists I admire most are the ones who are forging their own paths, who seem brave […]
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Defining American Cuisine: PW Talks to the Editor of ‘America: The Great Cookbook'
This content was originally published by on 21 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Joe Yonan, the editor of ‘America: The Great Cookbook,’ discusses the challenges of representing the American food scene, in all of its complexity diversity, in a single volume. Source link
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Skaters, Beaches and a Drug-Smuggling Stewardess in a Novel of the ’70s
This content was originally published by CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS on 21 June 2017 | 9:00 am. Source link Photo Daniel Riley Credit Fred Woodward FLY ME By Daniel Riley392 pp. Little, Brown & Company. $27. At first, the pace of “Fly Me,” Daniel Riley’s debut novel, is as laid back as its setting, the LAX-adjacent […]
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