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ALA 2021 Virtual Midwinter Meeting Gets Underway First Lady Jill Biden, Author Ibram X. Kendi, and Amanda Gorman, the Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of the United States who stole the show at President Biden's inauguration this week, are among those scheduled to speak at the 2021 American Library Association virtual Midwinter Meeting By Andrew Albanese | Jan 22, 2021 Gorman is set to deliver a reading from her forthcoming lyrical picture book Change Singson Monday, January 25, 2021, at 11:10 a.m. CT—followed immediately by First Lady Dr. Jill Biden. Biden's talk is se...

by Craig Takeuchi on January 20th, 2021 at 2:50 PM 1 of 2 2 of 2 A Hollywood star will participate in a chat about his latest book—his first in almost 20 years—at an upcoming Vancouver event. The Vancouver Writers Festival announced today (January 20) that its first Winter Book Club event, in partnership with the Vancouver International Film Festival, will feature an exclusive Canadian event featuring actor, screenwriter, director, and author Ethan Hawke ( Before Sunrise, A Bright Ray of Darkness. Vancouver author and podcast host Jen Sookfong Lee ( The Conjoined,

From fictional debuts to untold histories, Martin Chilton rounds up the forthcoming titles to keep you reading throughout the year. Julian Barnes wrote: "Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory." Although he was joking about Gustave Flaubert's carnal desires, Barnes could easily have been describing the sweet sense of excitement felt by book lovers contemplating new pages on the horizon. The new year will bring novels from Kazuo Ishiguro, Sebastian Faulks, Lisa Taddeo, Stephen King and Jonathan Franzen; memoirs from Brian Cox and David Sedaris; and non-fiction releases from G...

Why on Earth Is Someone Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts? A phishing scam with unclear motive or payoff is targeting authors, agents and editors big and small, baffling the publishing industry. James Hannaham was targeted by a scam that attempted to trick him into sending the unpublished manuscript of his next book. “You feel violated,” he said.Credit...Ian Douglas Dec. 21, 2020 Earlier this month, the book industry website Publishers Marketplace announced that Little, Brown would be publishing “Re-Entry,” a novel by James Hannaham about a transgender woman paroled from a men’s...

Google, amazon, netflix. google falling below $1,000 a share. one bright ray, nike. that company reported earnings and sales that beat estimates handily. they did very well indeed. now they're talking about men's yoga gear. think about that. selling men's yoga gear. remember marty mcfly had them in back to the future, shoes without laces and men's yoga pants. i thought that might be important to you. >> shepard: have shoes without shoe strings. nike up 6% today. that's good. >> yeah. >> shepard: only two of the dow 30 in the green today. thanks, gerri. some of our allies are sounding the alarm...