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The Great Resignation hits publishing (This week in books)

March 18, 2022 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! The Great Resignation. Publishing style. Editors are creaking under chronically low pay, ever-expanding publisher expectations, publisher under-investment in support infrastructure like contracts departments… and oh yes, all of this is happening amid bonanza years for publishers’ bottom lines. This makes it accordingly more difficult for young agents to get their books read […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexandra Horowitz, Censorship, coronavirus, Elisabeth Egan, Erin Somers, Kate McKean, Meredith Maran, Octopus, Olivia Fisher, Picture Books, publishing industry, Quarto, Rider Strong

Here comes “hot books fall?” (This week in books)

August 27, 2021 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! We’re coming to the end of publishing summer, when those lazy summer Fridays give way to exciting fall submissions. Here are some of the best articles I saw from the past week. Our hopes for a hot vaxxed summer may have been dashed by Delta, but in the book world, sales are […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Bessel van der Kolk, coronavirus, David Masciotra, Emily Gould, Ezra Klein, James Lee Burke, Jessica Fuast, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kristin Nelson

A year of COVID

March 15, 2021 by Nathan Bransford

Yesterday marked my one year COVID anniversary. A year ago yesterday afternoon I started coughing a bit, checked my temperature, and went….. “Uh oh.” What a year it’s been. It feels a bit strange to write about it, but I’ve found it oddly comforting lately to read other accounts of how people have experienced this […]

Filed Under: The Writing Life Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19

How to write for a changing world (This week in books)

July 24, 2020 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! As you may have noticed there’s a pandemic going on, and it’s upended many of our notions of “real life.” So… what do you do with that as a writer? Writer David James Poissant talked about the struggle (“delusion” in his words) of writing a timely novel in a constantly changing world. […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Austin Kleon, Center for Fiction, coronavirus, Crimereads, David James Poissant, Jessica Faust, Rachelle Gardner

Time to make fresh tracks

July 20, 2020 by Nathan Bransford

In these unprecedented, largely awful times, it’s tempting to look toward the distant future as a time when things will return to normal. When there’s a vaccine or the virus mutates into something less deadly or there’s a miracle cure. It’s hard to avoid looking at this time we’re in as a nightmare that will […]

Filed Under: The Writing Life Tagged With: coronavirus

Glimmers of hope for the publishing industry (This week in books)

May 15, 2020 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! So… I found out last week that I tested positive for COVID antibodies. I didn’t really talk much about how sick I was back in March, but I decided to tell my COVID story in the hopes that it might inspire some people to continue to stay vigilant. Really upsetting news this […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Carolyn Reidy, coronavirus, Jessica F, Jonny Gellar, Kristin Nelson, publishing industry, Quressa Robinson, Sarah McCarry

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