Wednesday, October 12, 2016

The Roundup with PW

Vying to Be the Next 'Gone Girl'
Bucking insider expectations, psychological suspense is still hot in the run-up to the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Larry Wilmore to Host National Book Awards
The Emmy Award winner and former 'Nightly Show' host will host the awards ceremony and benefit dinner on November 16 in New York.
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Does Publishing Risk Irrelevance?: Tom Welson, chief executive of Penguin Random House U.K., says the industry’s lack of diversity "is a real issue, and we have been slow."

Stars of the Spoken Word: A group of artistically minded actors have made audiobooks one of the publishing world's rare success stories.

The Inventor of Bookselling: On James Lackington's Temple of the Muses, "the cheapest bookstore in the world," and how it made bookselling as we know it.

Maggie Nelson's Desert Island Books: The author of 'The Argonauts' and 2016 MacArthur fellow would turn to Lorine Niedecker, James Baldwin, and Annie Dillard.

Poet at Work: Examining the age-old question: How in the world should a poet make money? (Hint: There's no good answer.)

 

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