Thursday, July 02, 2015

The Roundup with PW

Scribd Dramatically Reduces Romance List
In a letter sent to publishers, Scribd said it needed to make adjustments in the proportion of titles it carries from different genres. Some think that high-volume romance readers are "reading Scribd out of house and home." more »


Four Questions for...Shaun Usher
The British author's 2014 blog-turned-book, 'Letters of Note,' has evolved into a theatrical project that has drawn stars ranging from Benedict Cumberbatch to Gillian Anderson. more »


Fischer Takes $100K Pritzker Prize
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer is the winner of the 2015 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing, which comes with $100,000. »


A Healthy Future for Indigo Bookstores: Despite recent high-profile failures in Canadian retail, Indigo CEO Heather Reisman said Monday that the market is poised for a resurgence and her company is looking to grow.

Salon Talks to Jonathan Galassi : The FSG publisher on his new novel—plus, Jennifer Weiner and why Jonathan Franzen is a feminist.

Kafka Manuscripts to National Library: An Israeli court has stripped an Israeli family of a collection of Franz Kafka manuscripts, ruling that they be transferred to the country's National Library.

Theodore Weesner Dies at 79: Weesner, a novelist who mined his wayward youth for the stuff of his celebrated first novel, 'The Car Thief,' died on Thursday at a hospital near his home in Portsmouth, N.H.

Teachers Turn Lockers Into Book Spines: A group of teachers and volunteers are turning a hallway at Biloxi Junior High School in Mississippi into an “Avenue of Literature” by painting the 189 unused lockers to look like the spines of popular books.


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