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Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs (This week in books)

April 11, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs. In a week where the whole world struggled to digest the impact of America’s ever-changing tariff landscape, the American Booksellers Association has a helpful rundown on how this will impact the publishing industry and bookstores more holistically. Books themselves are exempt from tariffs, though the components of books (paper, […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: ABA, AWP, Boris Kachka, California, Charlie Jane Anders, Dan Blank, Kate McKean, Leo Tolstoy, Randee Dawn, Sarah McCarry, Tariffs, Thomas Kinkade

The best villains in literature (This week in books)

March 7, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! (A bit delayed and abbreviated because I’m on the road). LitHub’s annual counter-programming to the March Madness basketball tournament is here, and this year it’s a villainous one: who is the best villain in literature? Cast your votes! I, for one, feel Long John Silver as a 15 seed is an upset […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Alix Strauss, Dan Blank, Daniel Engber, Jane Friedman, LitHub, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Sally Kim, Sally Rooney, Tariffs

A literary takedown for the ages (This week in books)

February 7, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

The blog will be dark the next few weeks for a winter break. Feel free to reach out to me for editing! This week! Books! I particularly enjoyed this week’s crop of articles, which have served as a nice respite from *waves at the world outside* all of that. First, let’s get some of the […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Alexander Deley, Amanda Palmer, Amazon, Andrea Long Chu, Bookstores, Dan Blank, David Lynch, Kristen Weber, Kyle MacLachlan, Marc Weingarten, Meta, Neil Gaiman, Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, Pamela Paul, Patrick O'Brian, Piracy

This Year in Books (2024)

December 20, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This year! Books! If last year’s edition of This Year in Books was characterized by a cloudy crystal ball as we seemed on the precipice of change, 2024 was a year when some of those swirling elements came into focus. And… Not great, Bob! Now, let me be clear: if you zoom out, the publishing […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Andrew Dalton, Angelina King, Barnes & Noble, Censorship, Dan Blank, Emily Gould, Kathleen Schmidt, Matt Dorfman, Nicole Brockbank, Nicole Sperling, Noam Scheiber, publishing industry, Sophia Stewart, Succession

Han Kang wins the Nobel in literature (This week in books)

October 11, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! I collected a whole load of links over the past few weeks, so many that I am going to revert to providing the links with limited commentary. (Do you actually prefer this approach? Should I do this more? Let me know in the comments!) Han Kang Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Alex Marshall, Alexandra Alter, Betsy Lerner, Cal Newport, Choe Sang-Hun, Dan Blank, Han Kang, Hope Corrigan, Joshua Rothman, Julia Eskins, Justine Clay, Ken Whyte, Lincoln Michel, Marisa Charpentier, Motoko Rich, National Book Awards, Nobel Prize, R.L.Stine, Ryu Spaeth, Shannon Maughan, Sophia Stewart, Tom Rachman

The IA gets smacked down by the law…again (This week in books)

September 6, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Greetings from sizzling southern California, where I’m back at it after some late summer voyaging. Here are some of the links I spotted over the past few weeks. First up, the Internet Archive appealed a ruling that blocked its Free Digital Library, where it worked with libraries to make their collections available […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Alexandra Alter, Barnes & Noble, Dan Blank, Elizabeth Harris, Internet Archive, Ken Whyte, Matt Stone, NaNoWriMo, Trey Parker

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