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Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy… well, you just gotta read it (This week in books)

November 22, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, the blog will take next week off for the Thanksgiving holiday, and whether you’re in the U.S. or not, let me just say I’m very thankful for you! Thanks for reading and commenting and just generally hanging in there. Now then. In a harrowingly bizarre profile that should have content […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, Charlie Jane Anders, Cormac McCarthy, DW McKinney, Hachette, Jordan Michelman, Maris Kreizman, Pooja Makhijani, Publishers Marketplace, Survivor, Vincenzo Barney, We Need Diverse Books

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

October 21, 2022 by Nathan Bransford

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

Cormac McCarthy has two new novels (This week in books)

March 11, 2022 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Cormac McCarthy has been quiet since The Road was published in 2006 (and no, he’s not on Twitter), but at 88 he has two new novels on the way this fall. Retention of employees from diverse backgrounds has long been a problem in the publishing industry, and We Need Diverse Books is […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Adam Tooze, Anne R. Allen, Brenda Drake, Cormac McCarthy, David Corbett, Pitch Wars, We Need Diverse Books

What makes a great setting in a novel

October 25, 2021 by Nathan Bransford

What Makes a Great Setting

The Reading Rainbow theme song really had it right. One of the best parts of reading is the way books open up new worlds to us, whether a story is set in an unpronounceable ancient kingdom, the far reaches of outer space, ancient history, the distant future, or even the real world but maybe somewhere […]

Filed Under: Writing Advice, Writing Novels Tagged With: Cormac McCarthy, How to Write a Novel, Lord of the Rings, William Faulkner, writing advice

Cormac McCarthy is not on Twitter (This week in books)

August 6, 2021 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! After the sudden death of longtime Scholastic CEO Richard Robinson, there’s now a succession drama surrounding his estate that’s worthy of, well, HBO’s Succession. This would be merely the stuff of tabloids, and not fit for the esteemed halls of This Week in Books, except that control of a $1.2 billion publisher […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Chanté Griffin, Cormac McCarthy, James McGowan, Jessica Faust, Kim Lionetti, Kristen Lamb, Lincoln Michel, Scholastic

This Week in Publishing 5/14/10

May 14, 2010 by Nathan Bransford

This week in………. TYRA MAIL! Screeeeeammmm!!!!!!! Yes, it has finally happened. Tyra Banks. Novelist. The model/talk show host/judge-of-fierceness has smized her way to a book deal for a YA novel called “Modelland,” involving a land populated by “Intoxibellas,” who are, of course, hot and fierce and will cry dramatically if you ask them about the […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Borders, Cormac McCarthy, David Foster Wallace, E-books, E-Readers, How to Find a Literary Agent, Ian McEwan, Jane Austen, This Week in Publishing, Young Adult Literature

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