You may remember that one-time Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos was going to publish a book with an imprint of Simon & Schuster. It was a book deal worth £202,000 and it was not celebrated by many. It fell through following his remarks about child abuse, and he went on to self publish the
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A California newspaper has issued an apology after a reporter's name and byline were changed into homophobic slurs in a story. In an article about last-minute holiday shopping that ran in the Santa Barbara News-Press on Christmas Day, staff writer Paul Gonzalez's last name and title were changed to
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Game Informer has published a brand new interview with Atsushi Inaba, head of development and a producer at Platinum Games, to talk about their future plans. Inaba says that the company is becoming more interested in self publishing and creating their own titles after working with a number of
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Publishers are free to print (or not) whatever they want, but this is a barely disguised version of thought control that would redact much of children's literature. Author Francine Prose, a progressive novelist if ever there was one, writes in The New York Review of Books of the essential mistake undergirding
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One of the provisions of Google's 2012 antitrust settlement with the FTC was that the company would allow publishers to block Google from including third-party reviews in “vertical search offerings” without their being excluded from the general index. According to the FTC statement announcing the
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The “express” restaurant will focus on a smaller menu than other Foghorn's locations, while still offering some of the best-selling items – their wings, boneless wings, cheeseburgers, pulled pork, and other options. To start, the wings will be offered with 10 of Foghorn's signatures sauces and eight of their
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Although he did not establish the publishing house, he is responsible for many of its superheroes – such as the Fantastic Four, Hulk, Iron Man and the X-Men – figures that often challenge heroic archetypes. The new book, “The Marvel Age of Comics 1961-1978,” is the perfect introduction to Lee and his
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For anyone applying to MFA or MA programs within the fields of creative writing or journalism, it is a good idea to create a digital portfolio with your writing samples and include it somewhere within your application or on your resumé. Applying to graduate school can be far different from any other
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Israeli writer Ronit Matalon dies at 58. 1 minute read. … Prizewinning author Ronit Matalon died on Thursday at Rambam Medical Center, following a long bout with cancer. She was 58. … In 2009, she was appointed head of the Hebrew Creative Writing program at the University of Haifa. Matalon was
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“Showpad is focused on two things: more effective marketing and delivery of the very best seller and user experience,” he said. The platform allows marketers to share approved, high-quality information with potential customers. It works with other tools, including CRMs, to offer customized content based
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WQED provides fun, hands-on literacy resources to engage children while getting them excited to explore their imaginations through creative writing,” says Gina Masciola, WQED writers contest manager, in a release. Beginning Jan. 3 through March 31, children in western, central, and eastern
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Alt-right gadfly Milo Yiannopoulos is apparently a terrible writer, especially when he's not quietly employing armies of sycophants to ghostwrite his work for him. According to court documents filed by Yiannopoulos's former publisher Simon & Schuster, the initial manuscript for his book Dangerous–for
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