HarperCollins announced this week that it will publish “Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo,” a manuscript that Hurston wrote in 1931 — her first — that at least two publishing houses refused to release at the time because of the heavily accented dialect in the book was seen as too difficult to
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The personnel shuffle at comics companies continues as Jeanine Schaefer has joined Boom! Studios as executive editor. Schaefer made her mark as an editor and talent manager at Marvel and has been freelance editing books for several companies, including Boom! and Image of late. Sshaefer will
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“People have preconceived notions of what older people read, but they want to read the best sellers and stuff in the news,” Dubois said. In particular she referenced a copy of “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” a supposed tell-all about the Trump administration by Michael Wolffon. It's on the
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