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Authors, publishers, and other experts offer insight into the ever-evolving world of publishing; filmmakers are bidding on adaptation rights before books are even finished; fans can go on a cruise with Margaret Atwood; and other news.
Eric Kandel, a Nobel Prize-winning neuropsychiatrist describes the "aha phenomenon" and speculates on ways that individuals and groups can think more creatively.
Amazon is buying the book lovers’ social networking site Goodreads; City Lights Bookstore celebrates its sixtieth anniversary; IGN looks at Game of Thrones as an example of adapting novels to the screen; and other news.
Weidenfeld & Nicholson pay $3 million for Malala Yousafzai’s memoir; Penguin lifts the six-month wait for libraries to lend e-books; authors reveal their strangest encounters with readers; and other news.
Books about bullying are gaining momentum in children’s publishing; former director of Missouri State University bookstore Marx Brixley pleaded guilty to fraud on Tuesday; handwritten, signed poems by F. Scott Fitzgerald will be up for auction on April 2; and other news.
Random House profits soar with Fifty Shades trilogy; Flavorwire features photos of famous authors as teenagers; Penguin releases a new collection of Marcel Proust’s poetry; and other news.
Publishers watch the standoff between Barnes & Noble and Simon & Schuster; the Economist looks at a revolution in Chinese literature as a result of online writing; a new documentary about J. D. Salinger will hit theaters this year; and more news.
Renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe dies at eighty-two; Oscar Wilde letter advises writers not to expect their calling to pay the bills; scientific study finds U.S. books to be more emotional than those in the U.K.; and other news.
Author Matt Haig shares the thirty things he learned about publishing since landing his first book deal, Salon’s Laura Miller on how e-books can help authors gain attention from publishers, poet Dunya Mikhail revisits Iraq through poetry after fleeing after the Gulf War, and more news.
