Share By Rebecca Chace I didn’t know anything about writing screenplays, but the novel first appeared in my head as a movie. At the time I was a working actor who had grown up in a family of New York writers and didn’t think of myself as a writer. Don’t get me wrong, I wrote constantly: backstage [...]
Share By Erin L. Cox With this week’s release of the authors slated for The Brooklyn Book Festival, it seems clear that Brooklyn is the center of the literary universe. As has been noted in an earlier story from our BEA coverage, Edward Nawotka, Publishing Perspectives‘ Editor in Chief, and I often diverge on the debate of Brooklyn’s [...]
Share By Erin L. Cox Last night, I attended a delightful event at The Queens Museum of Art in honor of Oxford University Press’ new edition of the AIA Guide to New York City. If you have never seen an AIA guide, they are a truly impressive record of all of New York City’s architectural offerings….and I [...]
Share Earlier this year, writer and clinical psychologist Shira Nayman published her powerful novel, The Listener. Set two years after the end of World War II in an American psychiatric hospital, the story focuses on the relationship between the chief psychiatrist and a troubled patient who is suffering from severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder following his return from the front lines. [...]
Share By Erin L. Cox On Monday, May 24th, Book Expo America hosted the DIY Authors Conference and Marketplace in association with Writer Magazine and The Gotham Writers’ Workshop. Jon Fine, Director of Author & Publisher Relations for Amazon.com, was one of the speakers with a talk entitled “Advance Your Career with DIY Publishing.” Publishing Perspectives was able [...]
Share By Cédric Duroux This week, The Villa Gillet and Le Monde, in partnership with France Inter, hosted The International Forum on the Novel. Raphaëlle Rérolle and Guy Walter are the co-directors of the event. This is an event where writers, translators and the literary press come together for discussions about contemporary literature. Yet other fields such [...]
Share By Erin L. Cox July 11th marks the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee’s classic To Kill a Mockingbird. Publisher HarperCollins has pulled out all the stops and created a summer-long anniversary celebration, bringing together those that have loved the book in a variety of ways. Want to show your love for To Kill a Mockingbird? [...]
Share By Erin L. Cox On May 5th, I wrote a blog post shamelessly asking for Book Expo America party invites. I have been asked for some follow-up, so I wanted to let you know that two weeks later, I have a few real party invites and a few reminders to come to big events/soirees. With just a few [...]
Share By Erin L. Cox Let me start by writing a disclaimer. Please drink responsibly…and preferably with a mixologist on-hand! That’s what I did Sunday night at The Manhattan Cocktail Classic Event, “Chasing the White Dog in Manhattan: The History of Moonshine with the Legendary Junior Johnson and the Craft Distilling of Today.” My friends and mixologists Paul [...]
Share By Erin L. Cox Okay, this story has nothing to do with Mister Splashypants directly, but it brings up a lot of questions that arose in an earlier post I wrote about Alexis Ohanian’s speech at TED about Greenpeace’s “Name the Whale” campaign and how, once you let things out online, it is near-impossible to try to control [...]
By Siobhan O'Leary Bravo Arthur C. Clarke! It's hard enough to visualize how our lives will [...]
By Hannah Johnson It's Friday and it's time for our end-of-the-week Tech Digest, with the [...]
By Siobhan O'Leary Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt has announced the shortlist for its [...]
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