Saturday, April 19, 2014

Book tarde news from PW



Disney Partners with Bestselling Children's Authors for New Star Wars Adaptations
Disney Publishing Worldwide will release four new children's books tied to the original Star Wars film trilogy, starting in October 2014. Authors Tom Angleberger, Tony DiTerlizzi, Adam Gidwitz, and R.J. Palacio are reinterpreting the original Star Wars saga storylines in advance of the December 2015 release of the next Star Wars film, Episode VII. more »



Gabriel Garcia Marquez Dies at 87: The Nobel-prize winning Colombian author is considered by some "the most significant Spanish-language author since Miguel de Cervantes."

New Murakami Book Out In Japan: Some fans lined up at midnight, at a Tokyo bookstore, to get a copy of the author's first short story collection in nine years.

'Fun Home' Road Trips to S.C.: The cast of the Broadway play (adapted from Alison Bechedl's graphic memoir) is traveling to College of Charleston to perform scenes from the play, after the school was threatened with state budget cuts for recommending the book to its freshmen.

Waterstones Opens New Location: The Hampshire location is the British book chain's first new store since since 2008.

The Genre Debate: Novelist Juliet McKenna argues, in "The Guardian," that sci-fi travels farther than literary fiction.


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