Poet Maggie Smith to kick off speaker series at the Piper Center
Maggie Smith, author of Public Radio International's âOfficial Poem of 2016,â will be at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing for a poetry reading and book signing on Jan. 19, the first of a larger speaker series set to take place throughout the semester. “Good Bones,” a poem Smith wrote about
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Read All About It: La Jolla book buyers say global issues, diversity hot topics for 2018
âPublishers think the upward trend is graphic novels, so they're producing a lot of those,â said Warwick's children's book buyer Stacey Haerr. âIt's a great genre because it works for children and can bridge a gap for reluctant readers to have a lot of pictures and not be so text heavy. Still, there's a lot of
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Wiley Cash, JK Rowling, Margot Lee Shetterley top lists of popular library checkouts
Reviewing lists of top checkouts from both the Spokane Public Library and the Spokane County Library District reveals patterns and trends about what Spokane read or listened to last year. âThere's a lot of what we would expect to see, the best sellers certainly,â Andrea Sharps, collection services
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Agency sends out casting call for True Detective in NWA
A talent agency has opened up a casting call for True Detective Season 3, which will be shot in Northwest Arkansas. “Actors, background actors, stand-ins and photo-doubles will be cast for the show which will begin filming in multiple locations in NWA,” the casting call reads. “Shooting will begin in
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Guest Column by Jamie-Lee Josselyn | For Blaze
I met Blaze in the fall of his senior year of high school when I visited him and his fellow writers at the Orange County School of the Arts, which, in my opinion, is one of the best schools for creative writing in the country. It is my job to recruit promising writers who are also strong students to Penn, and so,
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'The relationship has to improve': UK publishers want more contact with Facebook
Frustration with Facebook's communication with U.K. publishers is nothing new, but the platform's latest plans to deprioritize publisher posts in its feed have further exacerbated it. In the U.S., Facebook briefed publishers one by one about the upcoming changes, and a couple dozen publishers also
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TEXANA READS: Sharpen your knowledge on knives
Roger Eckstine, America's premier authority on knives, their history and their use has penned a classic in his second edition. The first one in 2012 was excellent. This one, published by Skyhorse Publishing Co. out of New York, is extraordinary. Receiving a knife as a gift from a father or uncle is a rite of
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'We were feeling hostage to Facebook': Audience development teams shift their focus
The shift away from Facebook will take on more urgency in 2018 now that Facebook is privileging users' content over publisher pages' content. Some are returning to old standbys like search and email; others are putting more resources into different platform products. For example, Stephanie Fried, evp
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