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PEN America releases comprehensive survey on race in publishing (This week in books)

October 21, 2022 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! PEN America released a wide-ranging survey of over 60 publishing employees on the paltry state of diversification and cultural change within the publishing industry when it comes to race, exploring “a host of historically underexplored financial and institutional factors that feed into underrepresentation across the industry,” and pointing to publishers’ “persistent obstacles […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Angie Hodapp, Booker Prize, Cormac McCarthy, David Moldawer, Gregory Berns, Ismail Muhammad, Jessica Faust, Kristen Lamb, Kristin Nelson, PEN America, Shehan Karunatilaka, Siegfried & Roy, We Need Diverse Books

What you need to know about comp titles (This week in books)

February 18, 2022 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! It’s troubling times for literary magazines, and Leah Asmelash surveys the sobering landscape, which includes the shuttering of The Believer, the Alaska Quarterly Review, and (likely) the Sycamore Review. Lincoln Michel wrote about why lit mags are important and has some suggestions for improving them. Author Zora Neale Hurston was a trailblazer […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexis M. Collazo, Allison P. Davis, Angie Hodapp, Ken Burns, Kristen Nelson, Lauren Michele Jackson, Leah Asmelash, Michael Luo, Zora Neale Hurston

Buying a rare book doesn’t mean you own the copyright (This week in books)

January 21, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 3 Comments

This week! Books! Some eclectic links for you this chilly week. A group of misguided “Dune-loving cryptocurrency enthusiasts” banded together to pay €2.9 million for a rare copy of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s plans to adapt Dune for film, thinking that then meant they could release it to the public, produce an animated series, and/or produce […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Andrew DeYoung, Angie Hodapp, Ben Dreyfuss, Bethanne Patrick, Copyright, Disney, Kate McKean, Kathryn Schulz, Kishōtenketsu, Lincoln Michel, Photography

Netflix goes Wonka (This week in books)

October 1, 2021 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week books! It’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a links roundup, and I have quite a few good ones to share. Let’s get to it! Netflix spent over £500 million on a golden ticket and purchased the rights to Roald Dahl’s entire catalog. They have movies, TV shows, and more planned. Jay […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Angie Hodapp, Austin Kleon, Erika Liodice, James McGowan, Jay Coles, Jessica Faust, Kristen Lamb, Kristin Nelson, Lincoln Michel, Livia Blackburne, Netflix, Squid Game, We Need Diverse Books, Zadie Smith

Watch my ComicCon panel! (This week in books)

July 23, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! First up, I’m very excited to be participating in ComicCon @ Home again this year. A great panel I recorded with literary agents Kurestin Armada, Quressa Robinson, Bridget Smith, and literary manager Lars Theriot will go live on the SDCC YouTube page this evening at 8pm ET / 5pm PT. We talk […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: #OwnVoices, Alexander Manshel, Angie Hodapp, ComicCon, Donald Trump, J.D. Porter, Jeff Bezos, Kristin Nelson, Laura B. McGrath, We Need Diverse Books

Horton hears a huh? (This week in books)

March 5, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 6 Comments

This week! Books! Your weekly culture war freakout is brought to you by Dr. Seuss. After the Seuss Estate announced that they would let six of his titles with racist caricatures go out of print, quite a few people seemingly lost their freaking minds and opted to stick it to the Seuss Estate by… uh… […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Angie Hodapp, DIYMFA, Dr. Seuss, Kristin Nelson, Lincoln Michel

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