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Sen. Josh Hawley lands new publisher days after Simon & Schuster dropped his book following Capitol Hill riotsBy
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Hawley had come under criticism for challenging the results of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and was accused of helping incite the mob that stormed the Capitol.
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Regnery Publishing, a conservative publishing house, said Monday that it had picked up a book by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., after Simon & Schuster ended its contract to publish it in the wake of assault on the Capitol.
2020 was a challenging year. With majority of the global population locked up indoors, bibliophiles couldn t help but seek refuge in the world of books to escape the tough times. As they say, tough times don t last - tough people do. And since 2020 qualifies as tough times, as Bill Gates says in his blog post, there s no better time to read a book than now.
In a no-holds-barred blog post, Gates wrote that there were times when he wanted to dwelve deeper into social issues like Black Lives Matter protests which took the centerstage this year but there were days when he needed a change of pace and read something lighter.
It’s kind of sweet how different people make different mistakes of the same kind. So, when one kind of people ‘recognise’ their mistakes, it’s doubly sweet and only fair that the other kind also stand up and be counted. We refer to the US Captioning Company, which subtitles real-time events on TV, coming up with a ‘Famous Names Most Mispronounced’ list.
As expected from an American list, ‘Kamala’ of Harris fame is in it, as is ‘Fauci’ (Fow-chee), the surname of the immunologist Dolan Trump loves to hate. This is quite twee, American English-speakers getting non-Anglo-Saxon names challenging to pronounce.
Many years before he was a published novelist, Jeffrey Archer was an MP in Britain. And then came financial ruin. “I felt I was doing well in Parliament, until I made a remarkably foolish investment. I was advised that this company was going to be a huge success, that my shares would double. I stupidly borrowed money and ended up with a debt of 400,000 pounds a lot of money 45 years ago,” Archer said recently at an online event.
He stood down as MP in 1974 and started writing his first book, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less . “If you want to get out of debt, don’t write a book. Sixteen publishers turned it down. Even the 17th published only 3,000 copies,” he said.