OK, but what about a U.S. release date?
“Penguin Books will confirm an on sale date within this coming week. List of the Lost will be available in the UK, Ireland, Australia, India, New Zealand and South Africa.”
10 years ago"The scriptwriter’s job is very frustrating. You’re a kind of horse for the director. You feel always tied. The freedom you find in literature is unique. I am increasingly convinced that literature is the freest of all art forms."
Penguin Random House’s Celebra imprint, publishing in Spanish and English, was founded in 2007. On the quiet side until relatively recently, it’s a wonderful resource for librarians collecting popular Spanish-language content. Most of it is nonfiction and celebrity-authored, per its name.
If you’ve never explored Celebra’s catalog, do so in time for Hispanic Heritage Month (9/15/15-10/15/15).
PREPUB BUZZ NAACP award-winning writer Reginald Dwayne Betts is making ripples with his forthcoming poetry collection, Bastards of the Reagan Era (October 6, Four Way Books).
Autobiographical in nature, it tells stories of young African American men who were victimized systematically by law enforcement in 1980s Washington, DC. The war on drugs was code for an assault on an entire demographic, per Betts.
I know what you’re thinking: “I don’t collect poetry in e, or poetry. Period.” But Betts could ride the wave of U.S. race relations awareness that tragedies like Ferguson have sparked. Display it with Ta-Nehisi Coates’ New York Times best-selling Between the World and Me.
"The number of people who read primarily on phones has risen to 14% in the first quarter of 2015 from 9% in 2012. Meanwhile, those reading mainly on e-readers, such as Kindles and Nooks, dropped over the same period to 32% from 50%. Even tablet reading has declined recently to 41% in the first quarter this year from 44% in 2014."
H’S PICKS How many years have I heard of Lispector? Oh, nearly half my life, and not until landing my job as chief ebook excavator did I finally take the time to sample her on the strength of her…portraits. She’s what everyone says she is: searing, odd, piercing, and so, so chic.
You can start with The Complete Stories, due out next week, or begin with her novels, all from New Directions.
"Lispector’s madness is that of an artist who won’t allow herself to settle for what’s known, who has to see and feel everything for herself, even what can’t be seen."