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PRH Presents Its First-Ever “Virtual Con” All Day Friday (4/24)

Penguin Random House is hosting a virtual convention, #PRHVirtualCon, in partnership with Reddit for AMA and #RPAN activations, featuring some of our bestselling authors on Reddit and PRH social media platforms, on Friday, April 24, from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm (ET). Continue reading →

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Your Daily Guide to PRH’s Virtual Events: Share on Social!

Connecting readers with our books and authors during the coronavirus outbreak and this period of social distancing is more important than ever. Across Penguin Random House, we are hosting a variety of virtual events each day, and now you can help promote them. You can share the day’s complete calendar or your favorite individual listings via the share button, which will allow you to directly deliver all the relevant event information to your social network. Continue reading →

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Our Books on NYT’s Climate Change Reading List

For Earth Day, the editors of the New York Times Book Review and Climate desks created “The Year You Finally Read a Book About Climate Change” as a guide to help readers find the right book for them. The feature includes several Penguin Random House titles about climate change and its effects on our planet. They are listed below. For even more Penguin Random House books to help you celebrate Earth Day and PRH Green Week, click here. Continue reading →

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KDPG Launching New Virtual Book Club “How Have I Not Read This?” May 5 With Camus’s THE PLAGUE

The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group is launching a new virtual book club: How Have I Not Read This? Its inaugural selection, Albert Camus’s THE PLAGUE, will be discussed with participants in a digital event featuring Emily St. John Mandel, Laura Marris, and Alice Kaplan on Tuesday, May 5. Continue reading →

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There’s a Book for That: Earth Day

What on earth can you do? Plenty! Today commemorates the 50^th anniversary of Earth Day. On April 22, 1970 millions of people took to the streets to protest industrial pollution. In July of that year, the Environmental Protection Agency was created and now Earth Day is a global event with 192 countries participating. Coordinated by The Earth Day Network, it is the largest civic-focused day of action in the world. As we are staying in our homes more, emissions are much- reduced and we are refocused on “what’s necessary.” To support both personal greener living goals as well as global conservation efforts, Penguin Random House publishes many excellent titles; here are a handful of the new, classic and most actionable for all ages to enjoy in the spirit of Earth Day and PRH Green Week. Continue reading →

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Dolly Parton Reads MAX AND THE TAG-ALONG MOON on YouTube and Social Channels (4/23)

Dolly Parton’s weekly “Goodnight With Dolly” series continues as she reads Floyd Cooper’s MAX AND THE TAG-ALONG MOON (Puffin) on Thursday, April 23, at 8:00pm (ET) on YouTube and Imagination Library’s official social channels on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Continue reading →

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Jeni McFarland In Conversation with Dasha Kelly Hamilton via YouTube (4/23)

Jeni McFarland, author of THE HOUSE OF DEEP WATER (Putnam), will be in conversation with writer Dasha Kelly Hamilton at a virtual event hosted by Boswell Books/The Retreat via YouTube on Thursday, April 23, at 7:00pm (ET). Continue reading →

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A Reading, Talk and Q&A with Jenny Offill about WEATHER via Zoom (4/23)

Jenny Offill, author of WEATHER (Knopf), gives a reading, followed by a conversation and Q&A at a virtual event hosted by NYU Creative Writing Program senior faculty member and National Book Critics Circle Award winning Random House author Darin Strauss via Zoom on Thursday, April 23, at 6:00pm (ET).

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John Kenney to Discuss LOVE POEMS FOR ANXIOUS PEOPLE with His Editor Sally Kim via Instagram (4/23)

John Kenney will discuss his latest book, LOVE POEMS FOR ANXIOUS PEOPLE (Putnam), with his editor, Sally Kim, as the debut virtual event for Penguin Presents, a new web series, via Instagram Live on Thursday, April 23, at 7:00pm (ET). Continue reading →

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Random House Virtual Happy Hour: Robert Simonson on Creating the Martini Cocktail via Instagram (4/23)

Robert Simonson, author of THE MARTINI COCKTAIL (Ten Speed Press), among other books, will be featured on Random House’s virtual Happy Hour, showing how to create the martini cocktail via Instagram on Thursday, April 23, at 4:00pm (ET). Continue reading →

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