Hundreds of authors, editors, and agents have signed an open letter asking publishers to skip a post-presidency memoir from Donald Trump. Titled “No Book Deals for Traitors,” the letter was created by writer Barry Lyga, and first reported last week by the Los Angeles Times and Publisher’s Weekly. “We all love book publishing, but we […]
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MEDFORD, Ore. — Do you have any gently used children’s books you no longer need? North and South Medford High School Honor Society groups are hosting a book drive for elementary students. The joint community service project is collecting English and Spanish language children’s books. The students ask that the books be in new or […]
Tintin’s drawing by the Belgian artist Herge sold in Paris for 2.6 million euros (USD 3.1 million) on Thursday, breaking the record for the most costly comic book art ever. The work was created in Chinese ink with gouache and watercolor and was meant as a cover for The Blue Lotus in 1936, the fifth […]
It’s been 25 years since Jeff Bezos founded Amazon as an online bookseller in his parents’ garage. During the past 15 years, the company has used its enormous power to change not just how customers buy and read books, but how books are published as well. Book sales represent less than 10% of Amazon’s revenue […]
Enlarge this image Becky Harlan/NPR Every year, NPR brings together some of the best books of the year in a searchable, explorable guide called the Book Concierge. Today, we’re highlighting books about the United States from this year’s guide. Recommendations: Shereen’s first pick: Inventing Latinos: A New Story Of American Racism by Laura E. Gómez […]
Eight years ago, when Oriel María Siu found out she was pregnant with her first child, she immediately began hunting for children’s books. She riffled through dozens in the aisles of Seattle libraries, growing frustrated over the trite, predictable narratives she found on the shelves: white boys and girls were ubiquitous; children of color often […]
Garin Angoghinian’s “Հայերէն հայքու” YEREVAN—Dear Bed Books (Տիռ պետ պըքս) announced the publication of Garin Angoghinian’s book of haikus, “Հայերէն հայքու” (“Hayeren Haiku” – “Armenian Haiku”) on December 31. The cross-genre book is a collection of 63 haikus written by the U.S.-born Angoghinian on topics ranging from love, loss, politics, and assimilation. It features an introduction […]
Sometimes gold does drop into your inbox. One Friday night an email arrived that just said “Leonard and Hungry Paul” by Rónán Hession. Intrigued, I read the first line. “Leonard was raised by his mother with cheerfully concealed difficulty, his father having died tragically during childbirth.” I knew I was reading something special, incredibly special, […]
This was underlined at a ceremony held on book street on January 9 to celebrate its fifth anniversary. Inaugurated in 2016, the book street features dozens of book stalls from more than 25 publishers. More than 3.5 million books on different topics, including 57,000 new titles, have been sold, generating around VND181 billion for the […]