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August 16, 2018By Michael Cader

Celebrities, Clubs, Picks

August 16, 2018By Michael Cader

The NYT writes about another celebrity publishing side project: “X Artists’ Books, a small press that [Keanu] Reeves launched in Los Angeles with the visual artist Alexandra Grant, has been producing aggressively esoteric titles…. They don’t accept submissions and haven’t worked with agents, preferring instead to unearth what Grant calls ‘secret books’ — knotty concepts that might seem unpublishable.” From the other side of the spectrum, it’s Reading Month at YouTube Kids. Dolly Parton — whose Imagination Library recently celebrated giving over 100 million books to young children — introduces a video playlist of read-aloud books, including readalongs from Fallon, […]

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