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Meet Vice Ganda, Enchong Dee at Kapamilya Books Blowout

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 05 04:20 PM

Here’s your chance to meet celebrity authors like Vice Ganda and Enchong Dee.  Read more »

Encounter: Acclaimed Fil-Am writer Elaine Castillo on 'white gaze,' and writing to move on

Kara Ortiga
Posted at May 27 05:52 PM

We caught up with the author of America is Not The Heart at a writer’s festival in Sydney to talk about her roots, translating for a white audience—"No one translates white middle-class Brooklyn life to me, and I don't know what that's like“—and how she dealt with her father’s passing. Read more »

Woody Allen pitched a memoir, publishers weren’t interested

Alexandra Alter and Cara Buckley, The New York Times
Updated as of May 03 11:43 AM

Woody Allen has been largely shunned by Hollywood. Celebrities who once vied for roles in his films now say they regret working with him. Amazon has backed out of a multimovie distribution deal with him. Read more »

'Ipapakilala ko sa inyo si Tutoy': Vice Ganda, maglalabas ng biography

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 29 01:44 PM

Isang bagong libro ang regalo ni Vice Ganda sa kanyang mga tagahanga. Read more »

This independently-published Filipino-Malaysian author is an Amazon bestseller

Darleen Sy
Posted at Apr 22 02:44 PM

Nazri Noor has loved fantasy books since he was little, and this passion turned into a viable career in the middle of finding his way as a professional writer. He describes his recent commercial success as “deeply satisfying and vindicating,” saying that the media coverage it has gotten has done the work of rubbing it in his doubters’s faces. Read more »

ALAMIN: Paano sanayin ang bata sa pagbabasa?

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 19 02:25 PM

Kung tila naisasantabi na ang pagbabasa, partikular na sa mga kabataan, paano sila sisimulang sanayin?    Read more »

Book review: Get to know the Virgin Mary in ‘A Sky Full of Stars’

Joko Magalong-De Veyra
Posted at Apr 19 01:52 PM

The book “A Sky Full of Stars” has an appeal that goes beyond Lenten reading. Chapters read simple and forthright, with well-researched short stories that inspire and entertain as much as they inform – all aiming to make the Virgin Mary (and venerating her) more accessible to the reader. Read more »

On Mara Coson’s Aliasing: A sort of book review

Audrey Carpio
Posted at Apr 04 03:08 PM

Coson writes about the Philippines for an international audience, but those expecting Fil-Am identity angst or nostalgia for the old country won’t find that here. Aliasing is a contemporary novel about the Philippines in perhaps the only way it can be: disorienting and absurdist. Read more »

“Son, I do not have a choice”: Ronnie Nathanielsz recalls why he refused to leave Marcos camp pre-EDSA

Ronnie Nathanielsz
Updated as of Apr 04 12:42 AM

In this excerpt lifted from his posthumously published memoir, the sports analyst reveals the dynamic he had with his children despite stubbornly and starkly different views. Amidst talks of assassination attempts, his oldest son fervently pleaded for him to stand down. But the Marcos defender would not be deterred.  Read more »

3 huli sa tangkang pagpuslit ng drogang sinilid sa children's books

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 01 10:51 PM

Tatlo ang huli sa tangkang pagpuslit ng higit P30 milyong halaga ng drogang itinago sa mga librong pambata. Read more »

JK Rowling's gay reveal fails to impress fans

Amber Milne, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Mar 21 02:22 PM

J.K. Rowling's revelation that two "Harry Potter" characters were in a gay relationship has sparked an angry backlash, with some fans accusing her of changing her books to keep up with social trends.  Read more »

How writing for the movies pushed Butch Dalisay to fiction

ANCX Staff
Updated as of Mar 18 11:16 PM

ANCX speaks with penman extraordinaire and recently retired academician, Butch Dalisay, about killing time with Bencab in prison, being under Brocka’s wing, writing speeches for Marcos, and the lost tradition of writers as politicians and vice versa. Read more »

Big Bad Wolf PH visitors up by 50,000 in 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 06 06:16 PM

Whoever said more Filipinos prefer digital books over physical copies was clearly mistaken, if we are to look at the numbers in the recently concluded Big Bad Wolf book sale.  Read more »

Meet Kapamilya authors at the Big Bad Wolf book sale

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 01 07:56 PM

Get a chance to meet three Kapamilya authors at the Big Bad Wolf book sale at the World Trade Center this weekend. Read more »

Coming soon: ‘Alone/Together’ book

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 27 05:45 PM

“I heard a rumor that there’s a little book in the wolf house.”  Read more »

Books that come alive with augmented reality available at Big Bad Wolf

Jeeves de Veyra
Updated as of Feb 27 11:53 AM

Augmented reality (AR) is one of the latest tech buzzwords being used in everything from design to gaming -- and now even books.  Read more »

Leav and let live (What I learned from meeting Lang Leav)

Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta
Updated as of Feb 26 12:06 PM

In which our resident poet meets a bestselling poet—every poet’s dream and worst nightmare. Read more »

2 milyong libro, tampok sa Big Bad Wolf book sale

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 23 03:06 AM

Para sa mga bookworm o mahihilig sa libro, heaven ang pakiramdam na mapaligiran ng napakaraming libro sa book sale na "Big Bad Wolf."  Read more »

A beginner’s guide to Big Bad Wolf 2019

Ida Torres
Updated as of Feb 23 06:31 PM

Things can go crazy at the year’s biggest book sale, which opens today. If you’re planning to go for the first time, here’s hand battle plan. Read more »

Sneak peek: 2 million books await as Big Bad Wolf returns to Manila

Jeeves de Veyra
Updated as of Feb 21 06:40 PM

The biggest mobile book sale in the world is back in Manila! Read more »