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
Category: Miscellaneous
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
(We earn a small commission if you click above and buy the book at Bookshop.org)
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
(We earn a small commission if you click above and buy the book at Bookshop.org)
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
‘Bosch’ Author Michael Connelly Reveals the Book the Spin-off Is Based On
The upcoming spin-off series picks up after the events of Season 7 of Bosch, where detective Harry Bosch turns in his badge and becomes a private investigator. Read more
(We earn a small commission if you click above and buy the book at Bookshop.org)
The rise of BookTok: meet the teen influencers pushing books up the charts
Young TikTok users are sharing their passion for books with millions – bringing titles they love to life online and reshaping the publishing world, all in under a minute. Read more
The real-life plan to use novels to predict the next war
Three years ago, a small group of academics at a German university launched an unprecedented collaboration with the military – using novels to try to pinpoint the world’s next conflicts. Are they on to something? Read more
New works from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s archives will finally be published, starting next year
The publishing giant HarperCollins has reached an agreement with the estate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to acquire world publishing rights to the late Civil Rights leader’s entire archives—a collection which contains some of the “most historically important and vital literature in American history.” Read more
The Poetry-Loving Cook Who Fed Detroit’s Soul
With a 35-cent-meal restaurant and other charities, Mother Waddles was “a one-woman war on poverty.” Read more
Reading Books About… People Reading Books?
…the best biblio-memoirs are a wonderfully quirky mix of autobiography, travel writing, literary criticism, self-help and immersion journalism. The list that follows includes books which push the genre boundaries, which explore and explode the form. So often books stay in our head precisely because we do not know exactly what they are. Read more
(We earn a small commission if you click above and buy the book at Bookshop.org)
