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January 30, 2017

Monday News: Adapting books, print’s survival, history in pictures, and new Mark Twain fairytale

JanetPublishing Newsblack family chronicle / book adaptations / fairytale / films / Mark Twain / pictoral history / print publishing3 Comments

Why Hollywood is turning to books for its biggest productions – The obvious answer to this question is money, but the specific justifications are a good reminder that the commercial aspects of commercial art do not necessarily favor novelty and innovation. Here studios can “manage risk” by adapting already popular material, ... more >

November 21, 2014

Friday News: Ursula Le Guin’s NBA speech, Google Contributor, Mark Twain’s frontier humor, and a NaNoWriMo pep talk

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / American literature / crowdfunding / Google / Humor / Mark Twain / NaNoWriMo / National Book Awards / Publishers / western / writing advice16 Comments

“we will need writers who can remember freedom”: ursula k le guin at the national book awards – A transcription of Ursula Le Guin’s speech at the National Book Awards ceremony Wednesday night. Le Guin’s comments have been getting a lot of attention, in part because of her assault on ... more >

April 21, 2014

Monday News: Gabriel Garcia Marquez dies, Mark Twain as mentor, fascinating history of paperbacks, and the 2014 Peeps Show

JanetPublishing NewsBallantine / Latin America / Literary fiction / Magical Realism / Mark Twain / mass market paperback / Penguin / Pocket / publishing history5 Comments

Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Who Gave Voice To Latin America, Dies – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, and innovator of the style known as magical realism, is dead at 87. Garcia ... more >

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