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TV adaptation of Maggie Shipstead's "The Great Circle"

Jul 30 2021: A TV series adaptation of Maggie Shipstead's Booker Prize-longlisted novel Great Circle is being developed by Picturestart, the production company set up by former Lionsgate Motion Picture Group co-president Erik Feig. Deadline reported that Feig's company "won the ...

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Crime novelist Mo Hayder dies aged 59 from motor neurone disease

Jul 29 2021: British crime novelist Mo Hayder, whose dark, shocking thrillers won her the title of “queen of fear”, has died at the age of 59 after being diagnosed with motor neuron disease in December.

Hayder was the pen name for Clare Dunkel. Her death was announced by her ...

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2021 Booker longlist announced, contains four Americans

Jul 27 2021: The longlist for the Booker Prize has been announced, including four American authors: Nathan Harris, Patricia Lockwood, Richard Powers, and Maggie Shipstead. The prize is worth £50,000 ($68,860). A shortlist of six will be announced on September 14, and the winner will...

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Goodreads' bot problem

Jul 24 2021: Goodreads reviews feel honest until they don’t...Weeding through the weekly Top Reviewers, many profiles appear ordinary. The astonishing number of books read and reviewed per week by the Top Reviewers makes it clear that these profiles are not average, albeit avid, ...

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William F. Nolan (1928-2021)

Jul 21 2021: Author William F. Nolan, 93, died July 15, 2021 of complications from an infection. Nolan was best known for the Logan’s Run series of science fiction novels, the first of which was adapted into a film and TV series.

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Bernette Ford, who made children's books more diverse, dies at 70

Jul 15 2021: Bernette G. Ford, who as an author and editor was a leading advocate of making children’s books more diverse and making sure that people of color had opportunities to write and illustrate them, died on June 20 at her home in Brooklyn. She was 70.

Ms. Ford, whose ...

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Publishers could get tariff refund

Jul 14 2021: Though America’s trade relationship with China is still being reviewed by the Biden Administration, companies, including publishers, who have been paying higher tariffs on imports from that country received some good news last week in a decision issued by the U.S. Court...

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Michael Horovitz obituary

Jul 13 2021: The poet and editor Michael Horovitz, who has died aged 86 after a fall, championed poetry as a vital and democratic force that needed liberating from the academic world and the printed page. His quest began in the late 1950s and when the British underground got under ...

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