Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last week, we previewed 93 works of fiction due out in the second half of 2016. Today, we follow up with 44 nonfiction titles coming out in the next six months, ranging from a new rock memoir by Bruce Springsteen to a biography of one our country’s most underrated writers, Shirley Jackson, by critic Ruth Franklin….
Noëlle Santos, the Bronx native behind the proposed bookstore and wine bar in the South Bronx.View Full Caption Noëlle Santos Soon, the Bronx will be lit. Noëlle Santos, 29, an HR manager, is planning to open a much needed independent bookstore in the South Bronx. She recently submitted her idea to New York Public Library’s…
Books of The Times By JENNIFER SENIOR Jonah Lehrer has had time to work on “A Book About Love.” His schedule no longer teems with lucrative speaking engagements. He no longer writes for The New Yorker or contributes to “Radiolab” on NPR. With this project — his shot at redemption, provided to him by Simon…
Commentators have ranged far and wide looking for historical precedents in their efforts to describe the rise of Donald Trump. Some rifle through the American experience, citing the cases of Andrew Jackson or Barry Goldwater; others rummage through the European experience, turning up the instances of Benito Mussolini or Silvio Berlusconi, Jean-Marie Le Pen…
Yesterday brought us a first glimpse of Harry, Ginny and Albus Potter in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Today delivers another Potter-themed treat – this time in the form of Ron, Hermione and their daughter Rose. Pottermore has the first look images of the Granger-Weasley family – with Paul Thornley playing Ron and Noma Dumezweni…
We’ve reached the stage in the lifecycle of the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon where copies are swamping thrift shops. In fact, one store already has so many that volunteers have built a modest fort out of the “erotic” bestsellers, and they really, really don’t want any more. The Mirror reports from an Oxfam outpost…
Continue reading the main story Generated by ai2html v0.52 – 2016-03-14 – 17:26 ai file: readingdata preview: 2016-03-11-readingdata scoop : reader-data Artboard: 300 The percentage of readers who finished reading each chapter of three specific e-books. How people read a successful U.S. novel … 62 percent of readers finish the book. Front pages including a…
Neuromancer was a commissioned work. I have no idea how many years it might have taken, otherwise, before I produced a novel on spec. Had you asked me at the time of commission, I would have told you 10, but then again, it might never have happened. Careers are odd, that way. (Careers are nothing but odd.) I was 34,…
The economics of a web-based book: year oneAt the end of July 2014, this book completed its first year online. When it launched, I described it as “partly an experiment in taking the web seriously as a book-publishing medium.” In the interests of science, a few words about how that experiment is going. Nothing here…
A new survey examining the race and gender makeup of the publishing industry reveals what many writers and readers of color long suspected: Much like Hollywood, the publishing industry is overwhelmingly white. The brainchild of Jason Low of Lee & Low publishers, the Diversity Baseline Survey asked publishing houses and review journals to report the…