Title slide for “Echoing: A Theory of the Audiobook” by Alexander Manshel, Laura McGrath, and J.D. Porter

A presentation slide featuring an array of different audiobook covers, in various different fictional and nonfictional genres, all narrated by the same audiobook narrator

Lots of fun presenting with @lbmcgrath.bsky.social and @jdporter.bsky.social at this week’s fabulous conference on the world of audiobooks! Thanks to @corinnanorue.bsky.social and @millicentweber.bsky.social for organizing. And watch this space for more on “Echoing: A Theory of the Audiobook”!

Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) – Post45 Data Collective The Selected British Literary Prizes (SBLP) dataset contains information on nine major literary prizes in the U.K. from 1990 to 2022 and demographic information on 682 prize winners and shortlisted au...

More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...

Inside Reese Witherspoon’s Literary Empire (Published 2024) When her career hit a wall, the Oscar-winning actor built a ladder made of books — for herself, and for others.

And in case you're wondering, here is #elisabethegan's fantastic @nytimes.com piece, published on May 18, 2024: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/b... (4/4)

Genre, Diversity, and Metanarrative in Reese’s Book Club Juniper Song, the protagonist of Rebecca F. Kuang’s bestselling novel Yellowface , takes the literary world by storm when her historical novel The Last Front comes out. In the wake of her massive crit...

Available here: cl.uwpress.org/content/65/3... We hope you enjoy it! It's completely #openaccess thanks to funding from @uni-muenster.de 🤩 #reesesbookclub #reesewitherspoonbookclub #celebritybookclubs #celebritybookculture (3/4)

"Genre, Diversity and Metanarrative in Reese's Book Club" was published in @cl-journal.bsky.social today! Featuring @rfkuang.bsky.social's #Yellowface, @tiawilliams.bsky.social's #SevenDaysinJune, and @pronounced-ing.bsky.social's #OurMissingHearts (alongside many other #rbcpicks). (2/4)

When a big @nytimes.com feature about #reeesesbookclub dropped in mid-May 2024, @astarre.bsky.social and I had just submitted our manuscript about - you guessed it - the club to @cl-journal.bsky.social. #Academicpublishing is slow, but here we are, 13 months later... (1/4)

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Sweet home Chicago! 🤩 I would recommend @annnapolitano.bsky.social's "Hello Beautiful" for a great Chicago read, too. (Librarian protagonist, campus storyline, basketball storyline, Little Women references: it covers all the bases.)

THIS is why we wrote this. archive.is/2024.10.31-1...

IG Produktmetadaten - Börsenverein Die IG Produktmetadaten beschäftigt sich mit den Anforderungen an Metadaten in der Buch- und Medienbranche und ihren Anwendungsbereichen.

The German book industry has just revised their product category 112 (contemporary literature from 1945), motivated by the boom in New Adult literature: www.boersenverein.de/interessengr... #newadult #publishing

Just diving right in here - hello! - to share my excitement: @astarre.bsky.social & I have been working on a piece about #ReesesBookClub for quite some time, & it has just been accepted for publication by the journal Contemporary Literature! #bookclubs #bookculture

My second take on a big question: what does a feminist #bookhistory look like?

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