Tuesday, July 01, 2014

THE ROUNDUP WITH PW


The E-reader Death Watch Begins : E-readers are dying, says Slate. So what does that mean for book sales?

Cover Girls : How lipstick, bathing suits, and naked backs discredit women’s fiction.

Writer Healy Dies : The Irish author Dermot Healy, whose poetry and novels drew him fans from Seamus Heaney to Roddy Doyle, has died at age 66.

New Wave of African Writers : Black literary writers with African roots, mostly young cosmopolitans who write in English, are making a splash in the book world, especially in the United States.

Foreign Graphic Novels Behind Films : Flavorwire has highlighted graphic novels hailing from other countries that became the basis for ten different films — including a few adaptations that might surprise you.


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