News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff You may have wondered why I rarely link to articles in the New York Times or Washington Post. The answer is that both publications have paywalls, and offer only… Read more »
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News & Notes – 2/27/16
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Obama nominated Carla Hayden for Librarian of Congress. She will be both the first woman and the first African American to hold that post… Read more »
News & Notes – 10/10/15
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff. Book News 20 New Lines from The Epic of Gilgamesh Discovered in Iraq Svetlana Alexievich wins 2015 Nobel prize in literature (The Guardian) Scholastic Contributes to Syrian… Read more »
News & Notes – 4/25/14
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News The 2015 Puliter Prize list is out. All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr) won the fiction prize. The 2015 PEN Literary Awards… Read more »
A Dragonrider of Pern movie on the horizon . . at last?
Oh. My. G. . . osh! It’s a good thing you didn’t seem me five minutes ago, my friends, because I was squealing and jumping up and down with excitement. Warner Brothers has optioned the Pern series. The White Dragon: cover art by Michael Whalen The dragonrider and Harper Hall… Read more »