Let’s say you’re an American Beatles fan in the Sixties, Seventies, or Eighties. You chat with a British fan about your favorite albums. But you have no idea what they’re talking about — what is Beatles for Sale? Or With The Beatles? Meanwhile, they’ve never heard of U.S. classics like Meet the Beatles or Something
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A few weeks ago, I enjoyed a lengthy conversation with one of my favorite fellow speakers, Gair Maxwell. Gair is a former Vistage and TEC Canada Speaker of the Year and author of Big Little Legends: How Everyday Leaders Build Irresistible Brands. We had not spoken in a while, yet after catching up, it didn’t
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Welcome to your Saturday edition of Today in Books, wherein we round up all the news Book Riot covered this week. 💰The Winner of the $100,000 Giller Prize Has Been Announced 🏅 The Best Debut Books of 2024, According to Debutiful And for All Access members, here’s a big ol’ list of links to other
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Gautam Adani, a prominent Indian businessman and one of the world’s wealthiest individuals, has been indicted in the United States on charges of misleading investors by hiding the involvement of an alleged bribery scheme tied to a major solar energy initiative in India. The indictment, revealed on Wednesday, accuses the 62-year-old Adani of securities fraud
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‘Tis the season for Best Books of the Year lists, and I’ve been enjoying combing through them for the queer books. This time around, I’m looking at Audible’s editorial choices for the Best Audiobooks of 2024. They have an overall top 20, which includes a couple of queer books, but I also looked through each
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It’s a death-defying act to split one property into two movies. Warner Bros did it with the greatest of ease on the final film adaptation of Harry Potter, 2010 and 2011’s Deathly Hallows, which combined grossed $2.3 billion worldwide. However, Lionsgate ran into a buzz saw and tried it with the final Divergent book, Allegiant,
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China’s wealthiest individual, Zhong Shanshan, recently criticized online shopping platforms, blaming them for igniting price wars that have hurt various industries as the country grapples with an economic slowdown. His unusually candid comments, which have largely been censored by state-controlled media, also targeted the Chinese government for its inaction, accusing it of negligence in failing
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Posters for Wicked and Gladiator II Sources: Universal (L), Paramount (R) The box office this weekend will be painted pink and green, with a splash of red. Universal’s “Wicked” and Paramount’s “Gladiator II” arrive ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday and are expected to tally more than $200 million in combined ticket sales this weekend. “‘Wicked’
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