Roy Miller's Blog, page 162
June 12, 2017
At PEN America First Amendment Panel, Different Takes On Protecting Speech
This content was originally published by on 2 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link BookExpo and PEN America’s joint panel on Thursday afternoon, “The First Amendment Resistance,” found activists and speech advocates from various industries debating the ethical and civil responsibilities writers and publishers have in an era of partisan enmity and so-called alternative…
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Sherman Alexie and the Tricky Art of Memoir
This content was originally published by JAMES YEH on 12 June 2017 | 9:30 pm. Source link Mr. Alexie’s path to his current renown was harder than most. Born hydrocephalic, with an excess of cerebrospinal fluid squeezing his brain, he required lifesaving surgery at 5 months, suffered from seizures until he was 7 and was…
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Savannah Guthrie & Allison Oppenheim
This content was originally published by on 2 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Thanks to a fateful dinner, NBC’s Today show cohost Savannah Guthrie and Allison Oppenheim, a clinical psychologist who leads parent education classes, will make their picture book debut in September with Princesses Wear Pants (Abrams), illus. by Eva Byrne. Guthrie…
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BookExpo 2017: Children's Authors Say That Storytelling Saves Lives
This content was originally published by on 2 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link The Children’s Book & Author Breakfast speakers emphasized that books don’t just provide escape: reading can save lives. Source link
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More, More, More at the APA Author Tea
This content was originally published by on 2 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link The chair of the 17th annual APA’s Author Tea, hosted by BookExpo, is actor and author Alan Alda, who is joined by authors James Patterson, Marissa Meyer, and Daniel José Older. The tea takes place in the context of an…
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5 Things All Writers Should Know When Writing a Second Novel
This content was originally published by Brian A. Klems on 12 June 2017 | 4:30 pm. Source link Here in the writing community we talk a LOT about how to break in with a novel—whether breaking in means signing with an agent, landing a deal with a publisher big or small, or self-publishing well enough…
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Rutgers and Bucknell Strike University Press Pact
This content was originally published by on 12 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link The university presses have reached a partnership agreement through which Rutgers will do all of the production, marketing, and sales for Bucknell titles. Source link
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Neil Patrick Harris, Lemony Snicket, and Chris Harris Create Magic
This content was originally published by on 2 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link In an event billed as “A Fortunate Stage Talk,” actor Neil Patrick Harris, of Doogie Howser and How I Met Your Mother fame, who currently stars as Count Olaf in the TV adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events, will…
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Bricks and Amour-tar: Romance Books 2017
This content was originally published by on 2 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Meet the owners of the Ripped Bodice, the only dedicated romance bookstore in the U.S. Source link
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June 11, 2017
What Distinguishes Cultural Exchange from Cultural Appropriation?
This content was originally published by RIVKA GALCHEN and ANNA HOLMES on 8 June 2017 | 4:38 pm. Source link RZA, the de facto head of Wu-Tang Clan, has noted in interviews that when he was growing up in Staten Island, his upstairs neighbors in the projects were Chinese kids, and that all the gold…
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