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A Bookish Playlist: 10 Books Inspired By Famous Songs August 02, 2017 By Kerry Fiallo

 

Few forms of art affect us as thoroughly and movingly as music and literature. It only makes sense, therefore, to combine the two. Below is a melodious list of fantastic books that share their titles with classic songs by a variety of artists, from the Beatles to Nirvana. Curl up with a copy of these books and then check out their namesake songs on our Spotify list. READ MORE

 

 

Publishers Lunch

Today's Meal

 

People, Etc.

 

Brianna Linden has been promoted to associate publicist for Viking and Penguin publicity.

Chris Myers, former senior vice president and managing director at Peter Lang Publishing, will launch a new academic publishing house Myers Education Press. The company will specialize in books, e-books and digital content centered on education. John von Knorring, president and publisher of higher education publisher Stylus Publishing, will be his partner in the venture.

Renowned editor Judith Jones, 93, died today at her summer home in Walden, VT, from complications of Alzheimer's, her step-daughter told the Washington Post, which has a lengthy profile. Best-known for publishing cookbook authors ranging from Julia Child and Madhur Jaffrey to Marcella Hazan and Lidia Bastianich, Jones read the French edition of Anne Frank's memoir while working as an editor at Doubleday in Paris and urged the company to publish it English. In her decades at Knopf, working there from 1957 until 2010, Jones edited many of the house's leading fiction writers, including John Updike and Anne Tyler.

Bookselling
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Writing the Missing Immigrant Stories: For a class on children’s literature, a Bronx Community College student wrote a book reflecting her parents’ immigrant roots.

Geoffrey Godfrey Dies at 80: The poet and editor published more than a dozen collections of his own poetry and was joint editor of the Greville Press with Harold Pinter.

The Most Anthologized Essays: Over the past 25 years, essay anthologies have shown a strong preference for E.B. White, Amy Tan, and James Baldwin.

Rachel Cusk Gut-Renovates the Novel: After her controversial memoirs of motherhood and marriage, the writer has a new design for fiction.

A Rare Chat with Eve Babitz: Speaking with the reclusive author about her infamous sex life, her recent career resurgence, and L.A.'s transformation.

 

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Children's Books

IN THE MEDIA

From the Associated Press: Lost, then found: Rare J.M. Barrie play published this week. Click here From Deadline: A Sweet Valley High movie adaptation is in the works. Click here From the New York Times: Children's Books Missed These Immigrant Stories. So Students Wrote Them. Click here From CNN: 13 Reasons Why is tied to a rise in suicide searches online. Click here From the Huffington Post: Fans Wish J.K. Rowling a Happy Birthday and Thank Her for the Magic. Click here From Bookish: 10 Authors Share the Magic J.K. Rowling Brought to Their Lives. Click here

From TechCrunch: Lost My Name raises $8.5M and partners with Roald Dahl estate. Click here From Entertainment Weekly: Meg Cabot on the rumors of a third Princess Diaries film. Click here From the New York Times: Want Teenage Boys to Read? Easy. Give Them Books About Sex, by Daniel Handler. Click here From the Bookseller: Two indie U.K. publishers offer new lines of children's books. Click here From BuzzFeed: 21 Massive Things J.K. Rowling Has Revealed About Harry Potter on Twitter. Click here From Brightly: If You Were a Teen in the '80s or '90s, You'll Love These Books. Click here

 

             

Obituary Note: Sam Shepard

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Sam Shepard, the celebrated playwright, actor, author, screenwriter and director, died July 27, Broadway World reported. He was 73. Shepard is the author of 44 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays and memoirs. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child. Two of his other plays, True West and Fool for Love, were nominated for a Pulitzer. He was an Oscar nominee for his portrayal of Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff, and received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009.

Shepard's books include Motel Chronicles, Cruising Paradise, Day out of Days, Rolling Thunder Logbook, Great Dream of Heaven and Hawk Moon.

In a 2016 New York Times q&a, Shepard was asked if he felt he had achieved something substantial in his career. "Yes and no," he replied. "If you include the short stories and all the other books and you mash them up with some plays and stuff, then, yes, I've come at least close to what I'm shooting for. In one individual piece, I'd say no. There are certainly some plays I like better than others, but none that measure up."

In a tribute, New Yorker magazine theater critic John Lahr wrote: "Sam Shepard arrived in New York in 1963, at the age of nineteen, and took the city by storm. He was funny, cool, detached. He found his groove early--a cowboy mouth with matinée-idol looks. Shepard... had an outsider's mojo and a cagey eye for the main chance. He quickly became part of that newest American class: the hipoisie. He wrote screenplays for Michelangelo Antonioni and songs with Patti Smith. He hung with Bob Dylan. To the downtown New York theatre scene, he brought news of the West, of myth and music. He didn't conform to the manners of the day; he'd lived a life outside the classroom and conventional book-learning. He was rogue energy with rock riffs. In his coded stories of family abuse and addiction, he brought to the stage a different idiom and a druggy, surreal lens. He also had the pulse of youth culture. He understood the despair behind the protean transformations that the culture was undergoing--the mutations of psychic and physical shape that were necessary for Americans to survive the oppression of a nation at war, both at home and abroad. Martians, cowboys and Indians, and rock legends peopled Shepard's fantasies. He put that rage and rebellion onstage."

BEST PICS

 
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Prior to the announcement of the winners of the NZ Book Awards, “Painted Stories” (Te Tai Tamariki) hosts our traditional “Best Picks” event. It is always fascinating to see whose predictions have “nailed it”.

WHEN?   Wednesday, 9 August at 6:30 p.m.

WHAT?    Those attending are encouraged to share their opinions about the shortlisted books in each section of NZ Book Awards before predicting their “Best Pick” that might win that section.

WHO?      The format is conversational, where those attending can contribute their opinion from their own personal reading. There is no pressure to contribute to the discussion, with those who wish to listen and gain inspiration for their own personal future “must reads” list being most welcome.

AUDIENCE?   Teachers, Librarians, Parents, Booksellers, Publishers . . . in fact anyone who is interested in NZ Children’s Literature.

WHERE?    At the Education Library (College of Education, University of Canterbury), from the entrance on Dovedale Ave, off Waimairi

                   Road.  Parking is easy as the place is empty plus it is free.

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PICTURE BOOKS

“Fuzzy Doodle” by Melinda Szymanik and illustrated by Donovan Bixley

“Gwendolyn” by Juliette MacIver and illustrated by Terri Rose Baynton

“My Grandpa is a Dinosaur” by Richard Fairgray and illustrated by Terry Jones

“That’s Not a Hippopotamus!” by Juliette MacInver and illustrated by Sarah Davis

“The Singing Dolphin / Te Aihe I Waiata” by Mere Whaanga

JUNIOR FICTION

“Helper and Helper” by Joy Cowley and illustrated by Gavin Bishop

“My New Zealand Story: Bastion Point” by Tania Roxborogh

“The Discombobulated Life of Summer Rain” by Julie Lamb

“The Impossible Boy” by Leonie Agnew

“Sunken Forest” by Des Hunt

YOUNG ADULT

“Coming Home to Roost” by Mary-Anne Scott

“Kiwis at War 1916: Dig for Victory” by David Hair

“Like Nobody’s Watching” by L.J. Ritchie

“Shooting Stars” by Brian Falkner

“The Severed Land” by Maurice Gee

NON-FICTION

“From Moa to Dinosaurs” Explore and Discover Ancient NZ” by Gillian Candier and Ned Barroud

“Jack and Charlie: Boys of the Bush” by Jack Marcotte and Josh James Marcotte

“The Cuckoo and the Warbler” by Kennedy Warne and Heather Hunt

“The Genius of Bugs” by Simon Pollard

“Torty and the Soldier” by Jennifer Beck and Fifi Colston


Mary Sangster
Secretary
Painted Stories
Te Tai Tamariki: New Zealand Children’s Literature Preservation Trust

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