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This year in books 2020

December 18, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This year! Books! This will be the last “This Week in Books” of our godforsaken year 2020, and I wanted to take a minute to reflect on the year that was in the book world. While I was recovering from COVID in early April, I interviewed publishing industry sage Mike Shatzkin on the effects the […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: #BlackLivesMatter, Bookshop.org, Bookstores, Chris Jackson, Christine Carron, Diversity, Jay-Z, Jennie Nash, John le Carré, Joshua Rothman, Mike Shatzkin, pandemics, publishing industry, Stephen King

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt up for sale (This week in books)

November 7, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! Yes, it’s a Saturday edition of TWIB but, like, what is time? Will every day be election day in the future? Who can say?? On to the links! Bestselling YA author Justina Ireland is offering a series of really fantastic writing advice dispatches in her newsletter, I highly recommend subscribing! It appears […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Bookshop.org, DongWon Song, Jessica Faust, Judy Lee Dunn, Justina Ireland, publishing industry

The war is over and one space after periods won (This week in books)

May 1, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 4 Comments

This week! Books! It was a bit of a quiet week out there in books land as April got the heck out of 2020, but here are some of the best articles I saw. The “One or two spaces after a period?” debate is over and one space has emerged victorious. Microsoft Word now flags […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Bookshop.org, Chuck Wendig, Lynn Steger Strong

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