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September 2, 2022

REVIEW: The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit by Ron Shelton

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsBaseball / Film / filmmaking / Movie / non-fiction9 Comments

From the award-winning screenwriter and director of cult classic Bull Durham, the extremely entertaining behind-the-scenes story of the making of the film, and an insightful primer on the art and business of moviemaking. Bull Durham, the breakthrough 1988 film about a minor league baseball team, is widely revered as the ... more >

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November 7, 2016

Monday News: Hong Kong publishing, facial recognition, whitewashing Dr. Strange, and more accurate world map

JanetPublishing Newscensorship / China / Dr. Strange / facial recognition / Film / Hong Kong / maps / technology / whitewashing3 Comments

WRITING ON THE WALL: DISAPPEARED BOOKSELLERS AND FREE EXPRESSION IN HONG KONG  – PEN America has weighed in on the relationship between China and Hong Kong publishing, and in particular the recent case of the disappearing booksellers. The report “examines the wide-reaching impact for Hong Kong as an international publishing center ... more >

July 15, 2016

Friday News: Used bookstores, Hollywood censorship, “book healing,” and Dobbsland

JanetPublishing Newsamusement parks / authors of color / best of list / bookstores / censorship / Film / used books4 Comments

New York’s Used Book Stores Are Having a Moment – Used bookstores in New York City are having a lot of success right now, surprising even those who own them. The costs to establish a store can be relatively low (especially if owners offer store credit rather than outright buying books ... more >

September 10, 2015

Thursday News: Another book challenge, mainstreaming POD books, women writers and alcohol, and film options for books

JanetPublishing Newsalcoholism / censorship / Ebooks / Film / gender / POD books / publishing / Race / science / screenwriting4 Comments

Mom Launches War Against Bestselling Book About Race, Science -Another day, another attack on a book. This time it’s Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken without permission, and used in myriad scientific experiments, leading to momentous discoveries like the polio vaccine, cloning, and assisting ... more >

June 29, 2015

Monday News: The Historical Resource Edition

JanetPublishing NewsAlaska / Battle of Waterloo / Fantasy / Film / History / photography1 Comments

Relive the Battle of Waterloo With These Astonishing Portraits of War Reenactors – Photographer Sam Faulkner’s new book, Unseen Waterloo: The Conflict Revisited, uses war re-enactors to give people a chance to see beyond Napoleon and Wellington to the actual soldiers who fought in the battle. This interview with Faulkner offers ... more >

June 1, 2015

Monday News: BEA & diversity, fair use for filmmakers, a brief history of educational tv, and “weird” American food

JanetPublishing NewsBEA / copyright / diversity / education / Fair Use / Film / food / infringement / NASA / publishing / television15 Comments

A Year Later, #WeNeedDiverseBooks Has Left Its Mark On BookCon – So compared to last year, the organizers of BEA feel like they’ve come a long way, with the help of the #weneeddiversebooks campaign. The international element of this year’s event may have been part of that, too. You can ... more >

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