This week! Books! First up, a little housekeeping note that I’m going to take a blog break next week for our nation’s birthday and my own. I’ll be answering emails though so feel free to reach out for editing. The blog will return with fresh content on July 6. Now then. The latest books organization […]
This Week in Books
Honoring Juneteenth in the book world (This week in books)
This week! It’s Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the emancipation of slaves in Texas two full years after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Here are some of the articles about Juneteenth this morning that caught my eye: Jamelle Bouie on the centrality of slaves in the struggle for emancipation and a better America. Mary Harris […]
J.K. Rowling…… (This week in books)
This week! Books! As thousands of people around the world continued protesting injustice and brutality in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and at the start of Pride month, J.K. Rowling decided to double down with views on transgender people widely seen as transphobic, first in a series of tweets, then on a more […]
Ways to make a difference in the book world (This week in books)
This week! Books! Also justice! We’ve had an incredibly distressing week in America, and I know a lot of people are wondering how to get involved and support this movement to end systemic injustice and brutality. There are tons of exhaustive resources out there, from bail funds to proposals for reform to call scripts for […]
A heartbreaking week in America (This week in books)
I’m not going to lie, it’s tough to post today and what’s happening is bigger than books. My heart is utterly breaking about what’s happening in this country. The police and vigilante mobs are murdering Black people in broad daylight and arresting journalists. 100,000+ COVID deaths and counting, by far the most in the world, […]
Why some authors burn their work (This week in books)
This week! Books! First off, a quick housekeeping matter. I’ve been working on some changes to the blog under the hood! These include: Last week we moved over to a new server so hopefully the pesky outages we’ve had will cease to be a thing. I’ll be launching a new home page at www.nathanbransford.com The […]
