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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

How a book is made (This week in books)

February 25, 2022 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This is one of those weeks when the news is distressing and other topics can seem a bit trivial in comparison. But books are still crucial, writing will keep playing an important role in whatever’s next, and your writing matters. So on to the links. The NY Times has a pretty fascinating look at how […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexandra Alter, Amazon, Angela Ackerman, Anne R. Allen, David Moldawer, George Saunders, Jessica Faust, Lincoln Michel, publishing industry

F.B.I. nabs the mysterious book thief (This week in books)

January 7, 2022 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! One of the great running mysteries in the publishing world appears to have at last been solved. For years, someone has been tricking publishing employees into sending them unpublished manuscripts, from famous authors to the relatively obscure. Why? No one quite knew. But this week, the F.B.I. arrested Filippo Bernardini, a Simon […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: bell hooks, David Moldawer, Filippo Bernardini, Isidra Mencos, Jane Friedman, Joan Didion, Laurie McLean, Parul Sehgal, Politics, publishing industry

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