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June 11, 2017
BookExpo 2017: Life and Death, and the 1968 Election: Lawrence O’Donnell
This content was originally published by on 2 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Lawrence O’Donnell, host of The Last Word on MSNBC, has some advice for booksellers who have been in stress over the 2016 election results: chill out. Americans have had to contend with far worse than having “a crazily attention getting…
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Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Reporter Inside the World of Jihad
This content was originally published by JOHN WILLIAMS on 11 June 2017 | 7:31 pm. Source link What’s the most surprising thing you learned while writing it? How difficult it was for me to write about myself in the moment, explaining to readers how I felt about certain situations, the fear, the threat, the moment…
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Books In Spanish News Roundup: June 2017
This content was originally published by on 2 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Nicolás Kanellos takes home the Tejano Association for Historical Preservation Award, HCCP expands its Spanish Bible publishing, and more. Source link
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‘Blind Spot’ Is A Multimedia Journal Of Travel : NPR
This content was originally published by on 11 June 2017 | 12:12 pm. Source link Novelist and photographer Teju Cole’s latest book is a mix of text and photography. NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks him about his book Blind Spot. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Salman Rushdie calls my next guest one of the most gifted writers of…
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Toasting the Ad Industry and a Book Predicting Its Doom
This content was originally published by SAPNA MAHESHWARI on 11 June 2017 | 9:18 pm. Source link But his outlook for Madison Avenue is not sunny. Mr. Essex did not leave advertising so much as flee it, as per his new book. He described his discovery and subsequent enchantment with ad-blocking software and criticized most…
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A Different Feel at BookExpo 2017
This content was originally published by on 2 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link A slimmed-down show still provided something for every part of the industry, from a mad rush for adult galleys to a visit from Hillary Clinton. Source link
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Books of Wonder to Open Upper West Side Location
This content was originally published by JOHN WILLIAMS on 8 June 2017 | 6:29 pm. Source link Books of Wonder, the renowned children’s bookstore on 18th Street in New York City, announced Thursday that it would open a second location, on West 84th Street, sometime this summer. According to the store’s founder and owner, Peter…
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Chronicle Books Turns 50
This content was originally published by on 9 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link The publisher opened in San Francisco in 1967 with a two-room office and a handful of employees. Now one of the largest publishers in the West, it boasts more than 250 million units sold worldwide. Source link
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A Noir Novel of Motherhood, With a Modern Twist
This content was originally published by ELLEN UMANSKY on 9 June 2017 | 9:00 am. Source link Photo Credit Antonio Pinna WOMAN NO. 17 By Edan Lepucki 307 pp. Hogarth. $26 A home in the Hollywood Hills, a blistering heat, a stranger about to arrive: Edan Lepucki opens her second novel, “Woman No. 17,” with…
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Book Deals: Week of June 12, 2017
This content was originally published by on 9 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Berkley signs British bestseller Clare Mackintosh for two more, one of the creators of the Pussyhat Project goes to Grand Central, and more in this week’s notable book deals. Source link
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