Scribed Inc., an online platform for e-books, podcasts and audio books, is in discussions to go public as soon as this year, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Read more
Year: 2021
Black Playwrights Wrote Every New Play Coming to Broadway
Five of the playwrights will make their Broadway debuts. According to Drew Shade, founder and creative director of Broadway Black, this is unprecedented. Read more
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An Adaptation of Tony Hillerman’s Leaphorn & Chee Novels Has George R.R. Martin Among Its Producers
George R.R. Martin is co-executive producing another TV show—and this time, it’s not one based on his own books. Martin is part of the team behind Dark Winds, a series adaptation of Tony Hillerman’s Leaphorn & Chee series. The show is set to star Kiowa Gordon (Roswell, New Mexico) and Zahn McClarnon (Westworld), with McClarnon also producing. AMC has already ordered a six-episode first season. Read more
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Taiwan-born novelist Li Kotomi nabs Akutagawa Prize
Li Kotomi from Taiwan was awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize on July 14 for her Japanese-language novel “Higanbana ga Saku Shima” (The island where red spider lilies bloom). Read more
Knopf Names Jordan Pavlin Its Editor in Chief
Ms. Pavlin, a longtime editor at the publishing house who has worked with Ayana Mathis, Tommy Orange and Yaa Gyasi, succeeds Sonny Mehta, who died in 2019. Read more
Self-censorship hits Hong Kong book fair in wake of national security law
Booksellers at Hong Kong’s annual book fair are offering a reduced selection of books deemed politically sensitive, as they try to avoid violating a sweeping national security law imposed on the city last year. Read more
Iranian Operatives Planned to Kidnap a Brooklyn Author, Prosecutors Say
An Iranian American journalist living in Brooklyn who has been a sharp critic of the Iranian government was the target of an international kidnapping plot orchestrated by an intelligence network in Iran, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Read more
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€4.55m Marquis de Sade manuscript acquired for French nation
Original scroll of The 120 Days of Sodom, written while the writer was jailed in the Bastille, has been bought as an ‘emblem of artistic freedom’ Read more
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Weird as Hell: Falling in Love With Speculative Poetry
Speculative poetry is a hybrid creature that combines elements of poetry and prose, in addition to blurring the line between realism and fabulism, giving it a unique approach that no other medium can replicate. Read more
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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream
In his latest, journalist and creative nonfiction professor Jobb richly embellishes his grim central tale with carefully researched setting, detail, and social mores of the late Victorian era, elegantly contrasted with his eponymous fiend, Thomas Neill Cream (1852-1892), “a doctor from Canada” and “a new kind of killer, choosing victims at random and killing without remorse.” Read more
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