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26 MacArthur Fellows announced, including 10 writers

Sep 26 2019: Twenty-six new MacArthur Fellows have been announced for 2019. Each will receive a $625,000 grant paid out over five years. According to the MacArthur Foundation each recipient has "shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked ...

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New York Times shifts its lists again

Sep 26 2019: The New York Times Book Review has announced a new slate of changes to its bestseller lists, both in print and online.

After cutting the mass market paperback and graphic novel/manga lists in 2017, the Times' Best Sellers team will again track mass market paperback ...

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US booksellers support #GlobalClimateStrike

Sep 23 2019: Indie booksellers across the U.S. supported last Friday's Global Climate Strike in many ways.

"No one can be certain that any of this will lead to change," Silver Unicorn owner Paul Swydan wrote. "But at our employee meeting on Tuesday, we decided that closing until ...

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New B&N CEO James Daunt gets to work on rejuvenating America’s largest bookstore retailer

Sep 23 2019: If the fortunes of Barnes & Noble are going to be turned around—and new CEO James Daunt is confident they will be—the improvement will be led by the company’s booksellers. In an interview at B&N’s flagship bookstore in New York City, Daunt repeatedly stressed that the ...

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UK book industry joins global climate strike

Sep 23 2019: UK publishers, booksellers and literary agents were among the millions around the world who took part in a climate strike and protests to demand urgent action on environmental change.

The marches, inspired by Swedish environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg, saw ...

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Cokie Roberts, pioneering journalist who helped shape NPR, dies at 75

Sep 18 2019: Veteran journalist Cokie Roberts, who joined an upstart NPR in 1978 and left an indelible imprint on the growing network with her coverage of Washington politics before later going to ABC News, has died. She was 75.

Roberts died Tuesday because of complications from ...

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No-deal Brexit could put indie publishers out of business

Sep 16 2019: Indie press Galley Beggar has warned of the impact a no-deal Brexit could have on publishing after learning of “crazy” government requirements on distribution and warned it could put smaller publishers out of business.

The Norwich-based independent, which recently ...

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Publishers announce new Elena Ferrante novel out in November

Sep 10 2019: Elena Ferrante, the Italian author whose Neapolitan novels became a global phenomenon, is to publish a new book in Italy on 7 November – her first novel in four years.

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