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Obituary Note: Alison Lurie

Dec 07 2020: Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author "whose mordant novels punctured pretension, deflated dogma and illuminated the staggering talent of smart people for self-deception," died December 3 aged 94. Author of several novels as well as short story and essay ...

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Legendary sci-fi author Ben Bova dies aged 88

Dec 01 2020: Scientist, Hugo Award winner, and prolific science fiction author and editor Ben Bova passed away on Sunday, November 29, 2020 at the age of 88. The author of more than one hundred books, Bova also edited some of the genre’s best-known publications and served as the ...

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Major publishing industry events, BookExpo, BookCon and Unbound, permanently cancelled

Dec 01 2020: U.S. book publishing’s biggest trade show is being “retired,” show organizer ReedPop announced today. BookExpo, along with BookCon and Unbound, will not be held in 2021 after being canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic.

ReedPop, the pop culture event–focused ...

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Prison book club raises $30,000 for high school student in need

Nov 30 2020: It's hard to imagine two more different places than an elite private school and California's Soledad State Prison, which houses the state's largest concentration of men sentenced to life behind bars. But for the past seven years, the two worlds have collided in an ...

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PRH purchase of S&S draws objections

Nov 30 2020: Following the announcement that Penguin Random House parent company Bertelsmann won the bidding war for Simon & Schuster with a $2.2 billion offer, members of the book business and related organizations have begun to weigh in.

In a statement on Wednesday, the Authors...

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Canadian-owned publishers oppose PRH buying S&S

Nov 30 2020: The Association of Canadian Publishers is opposing Penguin Random House's acquisition of Simon & Schuster. The ACP, which represents approximately 115 small to medium-sized English-language Canadian publishers, published a letter last week calling on the Canadian ...

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PG Wodehouse: Why India still holds a flame for the English author

Nov 29 2020: PG Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, was the most English novelist imaginable. His comic world was old-fashioned well before he died 45 years ago - crammed with disapproving aunts in hats, eccentric aristocrats and wealthy young men about town getting ...

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A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path wins 42nd Diagram Prize

Nov 27 2020: In a history-making triumph for its Canadian author and publisher, A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in Eastern Indonesian Society has won the 42nd annual Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year.

The result means a first-ever ...

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