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November 18, 2016

Friday News: A place for audio, Apple’s $300 design book, women’s writing in Brazil, best webcomics

JanetPublishing NewsApple / audiobooks / Brazil / Literary Criticism / webcomics / women's writing5 Comments

IS AUDIO REALLY THE FUTURE OF THE BOOK? – Although we’ve talked a lot about the increasing popularity of audiobooks, this essay from Rebecca Rego Barry on the history and reception of aural reading reveals the difficult path to widespread respectability the audiobook has taken. Matthew Rubery has written a book, The Untold Story ... more >

February 22, 2016

Monday News: Harper Lee, Umberto Eco, and Antonin Scalia

JanetPublishing NewsAmerican literature / Antonin Scalia / Harper Lee / law / Legacies / Literary Criticism / obituaries / Race / semiotics / The Name of the Rose / To Kill a Mockingbird / Umberto Eco9 Comments

Go Set a Legacy: The Fate of Harper Lee – Harper Lee’s death on Friday has generated a number of excellent chronicles of her life (like this one from AL.com). It has also spurred several inevitable discussions about her literary legacy, especially because of the cloudy circumstances around last year’s publication ... more >

November 11, 2015

Wednesday News: World Fantasy Awards, literary incomprehension, Afrofuturism, and the diasporic art of Maria Qamar

JanetPublishing NewsAfrofuturism / disaporic art / Fantasy / Literary Criticism / literary taste / Maria Qamar / Science Fiction / World Fantasy Awards3 Comments

Here Are The Winners Of The 2015 World Fantasy Awards – The World Fantasy Award winners were announced at the recent World Fantasy Convention, and i09 has the entire list of finalists and winners. David Mitchell won Best Novel for The Bone Clocks, Daryl Gregory won Best Novella for We Are All Completely Fine, and Scott Nicolay ... more >

November 5, 2015

Thursday News: On Sherlock Holmes, subtlety, happiness, and wisdom teeth

JanetPublishing Newsdetective fiction / Elizabeth Gilbert / genre fiction / happiness / Literary Criticism / marriage proposals / reading / Sherlock Holmes10 Comments

Sherlock Holmes, Pro and Con – An interesting essay by Terry Teachout that actually reads more like a paen to deep thoughts in literature than a meditation on the positives and negatives of Sherlock Holmes. Teachout discusses the persistent popularity of the Holmes character, including the longevity of the original stories, despite ... more >

September 17, 2015

Thursday News: Three Essays and a Video

JanetPublishing NewsAmish Romance / inspirational romance / LGBTQIAP+ / librarians / Libraries / Literary Criticism / Michael Nava / mystery / noir / poetry / Robert Frost8 Comments

More Titillated Than Thou: How the Amish conquered the evangelical romance market -A really interesting, insightful, and respectful piece on the popularity of Amish Romance written by someone with familiarity of the community – a Mennonite woman who grew up in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, which is widely considered “Amish country.” ... more >

February 27, 2015

Friday News: Net Neutrality ruling, fan fiction goes to college, more comics come to TV, and women of the Harlem Renaissance

JanetPublishing Newsadaptation / Comics / common carriers / diversity / fan-fiction / FCC / Harlem Renaissance / Internet / Literary Criticism / Modernism / net neutrality / television / women writers10 Comments

FCC votes for net neutrality, a ban on paid fast lanes, and Title II – So the FCC finally reached a decision to enforce net neutrality by reclassifying internet service providers as common carriers, which puts them in the category of, for example, phone companies, and subjecting them to much ... more >

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