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San Francisco Chronicle
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Stevie Nicks says these musicians could have been in Fleetwood Mac
Los Angeles pop-rock group Haim got the Stevie Nicks stamp of approval, with the former Fleetwood Mac singer revealing they're collaborating on music. Nicks gushed about the band — composed of sisters Alana, Este and Danielle Haim — during a recent interview with GQ, deeming their music as 'something that I have never heard before.' 'Coming from Mick Fleetwood's great love of their kind of percussion, for me in a way, it's like coming home,' she said of their sound. 'They could certainly all have been in Fleetwood Mac.' The Haim sisters released their debut album, 'Days Are Gone,' in 2013 and have gradually risen to mainstream prominence after touring with pop superstar Taylor Swift on her '1989' tour in 2015, and again on her Eras Tour in 2024. They also collaborated with Swift on her song 'No Body No Crime' in 2020. Now Haim is gearing up to release its fourth album, 'I Quit,' due out June 20. 'It starts with Danielle's voice — it is just stunning,' Nicks said of the middle Haim sister. 'She's the first part of the puzzle, but then the percussion that Este and Alana wrap around her turn all of their songs into percussive masterpieces.' Nicks went on to share that she's working with the 'Summer Girl' group on new material, adding that 'some day, when you tumble into this song, you will understand everything I have just told you.' It is unclear if said collaboration would be for Nicks' upcoming solo project, which she said was inspired by her experiences with various men in her life. 'I'm not pulling any punches for probably the first time in my life. They are not airy-fairy songs,' she said when announcing the album at the Pollstar Awards in April. 'They're real stories of memories of mine of fantastic men.' The untitled record will mark Nicks' first original album since 2011's 'In Your Dreams.' A release date has yet to be announced. Nicks was meant to return to the Bay Area for a co-headlining performance with Billy Joel at Levi's Stadium in October, but the show, and the rest of Joel's scheduled concerts, were canceled due to his recent medical issues.
The Guardian
14-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Funding fights, memoirs by Boris Becker and Stallone, plus the queen of romantasy: this year's London book fair
Contentious classics, book-to-screen adaptations and the future of festival funding were some of the hottest topics at this week's London book fair, which saw around 30,000 agents, authors, translators, publishers and other industry professionals meet in Olympia, London, across three days to hammer out rights deals and discuss the future of publishing. Here is our roundup of some of the takeaways from this year's fair, and a taste of the books we can expect to see in shops in the near future. In case you missed last summer's festival funding fiasco: fund manager Baillie Gifford came under fire for its investments in fossil fuels and companies linked to Israel, which resulted in partnerships between the firm and nine literary festivals it sponsored being cut. At this week's fair, English PEN made the bold but much-needed move to get the stakeholders in the same room at the same time. A representative of the campaign group Fossil Free Books, Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, said that its members had seen an opportunity to make a difference and protest injustices that many of them had written about. However, Fiona Razvi, the director of Wimbledon BookFest – which had previously been sponsored by Baillie Gifford – said that 'attacking an investment company which passed our scrutiny, which we were very happy with – they were a force for good, as far as I can see, in our industry – I'm not so sure that was the right way', to loud applause. It feels like an exciting time for book-to-screen adaptations, with The Thursday Murder Club and Guillermo del Toro's version of Frankenstein among many other much-anticipated films in the works. Indeed, films based on books typically do significantly better at the box office than those with original screenplays. The challenge of turning novels into films and series went under the microscope at this year's fair, with authors and producers each pulling back the curtain on the obstacle-ridden process. Lucy Clarke, whose book The Castaways was turned into a hit series for Paramount+, said that she never writes specifically for screen, but 'obviously there's that lovely glittery hope that maybe it'll get picked up'. Love was in the air at the fair, with a spate of new acquisitions in the romance and romance-adjacent space: Tess Sharpe's romance-action thriller No Body No Crime; a three-book series by BookTok star Tierney Page; Patrick Ness's novel Meridian; and Remain, a romantic thriller from Nicholas Sparks and M Night Shyamalan. Plus, queen of romantasy Rebecca Yarros will have her blockbuster Empyrean books, beginning with Fourth Wing, adapted into a six-part graphic novel series. 'There is something so special about seeing your words come to life through art,' she said. What should publishers do with classic books containing offensive language or ideas? They might include footnotes or an introduction by a contemporary author to add context. Or they might decide the text isn't worth publishing any more. Children are handed classics and told 'this is something that you must revere, this is something you must value', said Aimée Felone, managing director of children's publisher Knights Of. Yet, a 'classic' is a 'socially constructed' thing, said Maria Bedford, editorial director at Scribe. Whether or not to continue publishing problematic work by historically admired authors is a nuanced, ever-changing conversation that publishers are still working out how to have, the fair's panel made clear. Sign up to Bookmarks Discover new books and learn more about your favourite authors with our expert reviews, interviews and news stories. Literary delights delivered direct to you after newsletter promotion Developing the next generation of readers was a key focus of talks at the fair. Authors Kit de Waal and Clare Mackintosh discussed the literacy 'crisis', while Waterstones CEO James Daunt and Hachette CEO David Shelley discussed ways the industry could help tackle the decline in children reading for pleasure. However, it wasn't all negative: Daunt reported that 'kids are in the stores everywhere, on both sides of the Atlantic'. Starry memoirs were served up, with deals inked for Sylvester Stallone's The Steps, to be published in October this year, and Boris Becker's Inside: Winning, Losing, Starting Again, about life during and after his prison sentence for hiding £2.5m in assets and loans.
