During these last, final weeks of my 18-month standup comedy tour around broken Brexit Britain, I have been reading the 1967 novel Ice by the science-fiction pioneer and heroin enthusiast Anna Kavan, newly rescued from oblivion by Peter Owen Publishers. Ice eerily depicts a man travelling through a
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I wouldn't want to count how many times my introductory writing classes roll their eyes and say, “Come on, give me a break,” when I ask them to consider possible connections and significances, or to read an article from New York Review of Books designed for an already college-educated audience.
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AUSTIN – Facebook really wants to gain the trust of publishers after a contentious year of fake news and algorithm changes, as well as concerns the giant social network is squeezing out news sites. At a panel discussion at the SXSW conference, Facebook's head of news product, Alex Hardiman, said
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Fig is a crowdfunding and investment platform for games development, launched in 2015 as a “democratized publishing” scheme for videogames. While in some ways similar to other crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, Fig is focused exclusively on games and allows backers to become investors and
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Here is a shout-out to the Realtors on Maui who show pictures of the properties they are listing in The Maui News. Here is a “what the?” to the Realtors who show only pictures of themselves. Maybe they want us to pick a Realtor by their looks, not by the properties. But, maybe this works, who knows?
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Inside the grey walls of Arohata Upper Prison, a love of poetry and prose is forming among inmates, thanks to a well-established creative writing course run by a small group of Wellington volunteers. Since 2014, members of The Write Where You Are Trust have been working alongside prisoners to foster
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Mehedi Hasan, publisher of Omicon Publishing House made the urge at the inaugural event of International Istanbul Fellowship programme at a hotel and convention center in Istanbul of Turkey on 9 March. In response, the governor of Istanbul, Vasip Şahin, assured that they would consider Bengali as
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