The Guardian (blog)

Local newspapers' crisis: a story of hyperlocal success
The Guardian (blog)
He left the Northcliffe Media title in July 2011 to launch a magazine, filtonvoice, which is an attempt to publish community journalism - in print... When I left the Post I was not totally sure what I was going to do, but I was certain that new models ...

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Daily Beast

Remembering Dmitri Nabokov, the Novelist?s Son and Literary Executor
Daily Beast
He remembers the novelist's son, Dmitri, who died at the age of 77 in February, who was a bon vivant, car lover, and literary executor of his father's legacy. Plus, Lila Azam Zanganeh on the nights she spent reading to Dmitri. Dmitri Nabokov liked many ...



Financial Times

Hard sellers
Financial Times
In any case, is literature so free of commercial pressures? Books are published with an audience in mind. Rick Moody, the US novelist, has said that authors are already engaged in a form of advertising, as the names of large publishers emblazon the ...



Site fires up teens' literary instincts
Chicago Tribune
"It seemed like a great way to explore the literary culture," she remembers. By the time she got home, the parameters had shifted, with the effects of the global economic crisis rippling through the American book industry. "I began to wonder whether ...



Guide to African safaris
Herald Sun
The only constants are adventure, a canvas that is vast and mesmerising, and references to the "big five". But don't let seeing the big five totally rule your choice some places simply don't have rhinos, or support too many lions, leopards, ...

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These little magazines loom large
Columbia Daily Tribune
By EJ Dionne Jr. We know there are coffee lovers and tea lovers, as well as lovers of baseball, football, art, literature, music and cars. But many years ago, Father Richard John Neuhaus, a hero to conservatives who earlier was a guide to religious ...



Amanda Muggleton performing in the Adelaide Festival production of The Ham ...
The Australian
In his sprawling, untidy hand, Australia's only home-grown Nobel prize-winner in literature declared with customary crankiness: "I can't let you have my 'papers', because I don't keep any . . . Anything unfinished when I die is to be burnt.



Publishing in Russia 2012: Peter Mayer on Publishing and Promoting Russian Works
Publishers Weekly
Then 10 years ago, Mayer, as president and publisher of Overlook Press, acquired Ardis, a small press with a large list of Russian literature in English. This continued effort in translating and publishing Russian works saw Mayer honored with a ...

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PennLive.com (blog)

'Shades of Grey' piques the interest of many midstaters
PennLive.com (blog)
By CHRIS MAUTNER, The Patriot-News The fact that the novel “Fifty Shades of Grey” is the uber-hot literary zeitgeist of the moment is surprising for a number of reasons. For one thing, it's by a first-time, unknown author, EL James.

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Lights, camera
The Australian
Speaking from his studio in downtown Vancouver, Wall apologetically explains he's midway through printing some photographs for a fund-raising benefit for people injured by landmines. They are small images of children "playing in front of a big old ...


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