The manuscript, written in a coded form of Hebrew, had deteriorated into sixty pieces that had to be digitally pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle. The document includes the sophisticated calendar followed by the sect that wrote the scroll as well as information about that sect’s disputes with the Temple authorities in Jerusalem.
Category: words
How Romance Writers Are Thriving In The Gig Economy
“Although few have reached the flabbergasting success of “Fifty Shades” author E.L. James, a former fan fiction writer whose net worth now totals more than $58 million, I found that the median income for romance authors has tripled in the e-book era. And more and more are earning a six-figure income. This uptick occurred as other types of writing became less profitable. During the same period, a survey of 1,095 Authors Guild members found that their median income from writing fell by at least 30 percent.”
Poet Attacks Young Social Media Poets In Scathing Essay That Divides Poetry World
Poet Rebecca Watts took to the pages of PN Review to lay out her disdain for “the cult of the noble amateur”, and her despair at the effect of social media on poetry. Highlighting the work of poets such as Kaur (whose debut collection Milk and Honey has sold more than 1m copies worldwide), Tempest and, in particular, McNish, Watts attacks the “cohort of young female poets who are currently being lauded by the poetic establishment for their ‘honesty’ and ‘accessibility’”.
Douglas Coupland: Are Books About To Be Superseded By VR?
“Maybe books are overrated. Maybe they are an interim technology on the way to VR and we can now get rid of our books.”
‘I Am Not A Prophet,’ Says Margaret Atwood
“Let’s get rid of that idea right now. Prophecies are really about now. In science fiction it’s always about now. What else could it be about? There is no future. There are many possibilities, but we do not know which one we are going to have.” (That said, she’s “sorry to have been so right.”)
One Of Hong Kong Booksellers Kidnapped By Chinese Police Abducted Again, ‘Snatched’ From Swedish Escorts
“Hong Kong-based publisher Gui Minhai, one of the Causeway Bay booksellers whose disappearance two years ago caused an international storm, was snatched again by mainland Chinese authorities from a train heading for Beijing over the weekend, his daughter reported on Monday.”
Translation Is Not Just About Trading Words
Since there is no such thing as a truly literal translation — no two languages’ grammars match, their vocabularies diverge, even punctuation has a different weight — there can be no such thing as a translation that is not “creative.” And while most of us translators think of ourselves as “faithful,” definitions of faithfulness can differ. Because languages function differently, much of translation is about achieving a similar effect by different means; not only are difference, change, and interpretation completely normal, but they are in fact an integral part of faithfulness.
Waterstone’s Bookseller Reports Profits Up 80 Percent
Sales in 2017 had been buoyed by the success of children’s books by David Williams as well as JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Non-book items such greetings cards, stationery and educational toys have proved a success with browsers and now account for 10% of turnover.
In Children’s Books, It’s Not Only The Heroes Who Are Mostly Male
In the top 100 children’s books in the UK in 2017, “the lead characters were 50% more likely to be male than female, and male villains were eight times more likely to appear compared to female villains.”
When A Book Editor Becomes A Bestselling Author
The acquiring editor didn’t know her colleague down the hall was writing a book, and he used a pen name for it. “Had Mr. Mallory not prudently scheduled a weeklong trip to Palm Springs, which began the day his agent sent the manuscript to publishers, Ms. Brehl imagines she may have walked the book into his office to ask for his thoughts on it.”