Thursday, July 24, 2014

THE ROUNDUP at PW


Ten Unexpected Facts from the Lee Bio : BookRiot rounds up "awesome" revelations from "The Mockingbird Next Door" by Marja Mills.

Jack White Ventures into Publishing : The musician's Third Man Records has just announced that it’s moving into the publishing world with the first release from its Third Man Books imprint, and as should be expected, the “book” that it’s putting out isn’t just a book.

Last Chapters in San Francisco : The threat to the city's bookstores goes beyond Amazon and e-books to rising rents and demand for commercial space.

'Harriet' Predicted Surveillance State : A cold war children's book is surprisingly prescient.

Writers Can Learn from a Kids' Classic: "'Goodnight Moon' does two things right away: It sets up a world and then it subverts its own rules even as it follows them," says Aimee Bender at the "New York Times."

2014 Booker Longlist Revealed 
The 2014 Man Booker Prize longlist, which, for the first time in the prize's 46 year history, includes writers outside of the U.K. and Commonwealth, has been announced. Americans Joshua Ferris and Richard Powers, among others, made the cut, but Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Goldfinch" was notably absent. MORE »


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