Jesmyn Ward, a critically acclaimed novelist, said on Twitter that she “fought and fought” for her first $100,000 advance, even after her book “Salvage the Bones,” for which she said she received around $20,000, won a National Book Award in 2011. After switching publishers, she was ...
When the novelist Octavia E. Butler entered a room, you felt it. Tall, commanding, yet soft-spoken, the author’s presence inspired as much comfort as attention; you couldn’t help but be enraptured by her. The first and only time I met her was on a rainy afternoon in 2005. She was...
in part in the belief that women composed based on feeling rather than intellect. When she married the physician and amateur musician Henry Harris Aubrey Beach in 1885, he asked that she limit her
1.Star Trek: New Frontier Books 1-4, Peter David Peter David is a prolific comic book writer and novelist. I’ve been a big fan of his writing ever since I read his work on the Star Trek: TNG novelImzadi, and he’s enjoyed a long career as Star Trek novelist. HisNew Frontierserie...
Thomas Harris and Son call for the "... attention of the Nobility, Gentry, and Subscribers to the Royal Italian Opera is respectfully directed to Thomas Harris and Son's newly improved Opera Glasses".It is assumed that readers of this novel will have time to read much else besides the ...
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On the one hand, we have scientific (let’s be charitable) amateurs-from Nietzsche and Ingersoll to Chrisopher Hitchens and Sam Harris-insisting that science and Biblical religion are fundamentally incompatible. On the other hand, you have the greatest minds in the history of science,...
At Pantheon Books, Anson’s editor, Erroll McDonald, has said the publisher plans to publish the Disney book regardless of Anson’s position at the magazine. Anson was hired by McCraw last spring after, several former staffers say, she forced out editor Lew Harris. McCraw says he wasn’...
Songs like "When the Sun Goes Down Tomorrow" (country girl goes home) and "Preacher Tom" (saving in the name of the Lord) reprise old themes with specificity and verve, and the covers from Emmylou Harris and Merle Haggard broaden her perspective without compromising it. Intensely pleasant. ...