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How to fight book bans (This week in books)

April 7, 2023 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! The resurgence of book bans remains distressingly rampant as parents try to control not just what their own kids read, but other kids as well. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what some are calling “parents rights” is really “when some parents have the right to dominate all the others.” Alyssa Rosenberg has some […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Censorship, ChatGPT, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Donald Maass, E-books, John Matthew Fox, Roald Dahl, Stacy Frazer, Star Wars

Social media is a dumpster fire (This week in books)

February 3, 2023 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This week! Books! You know it, I know it. Social media just isn’t what it used to be. Approximately 15 years into the social media era, and 8 years after GameGate marked the beginning of the end, we’re at a messy nadir, where the giants (Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, Snap) are earnestly committing suicide, the insurgent (TikTok) […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: ALA Awards, Censorship, Donald Maass, Florida, Hunter Patterson, Judith Viorst, Lincoln Michel, Madelin McIntosh, Martin Riker, Patrick Sauer, Penguin Random House, Peter C. Baker, S.E. Hinton, Social Media, Sophie Vershbow, Writing and Sports

The PRH/S&S antitrust suit gets underway (This week in books)

August 5, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This week! Books! The antitrust lawsuit over Penguin Random House’s proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster is in full swing. Shira Ovide writes about how the threat posed by Amazon is looming in the background of the trial, and Publishers Lunch ($ links) has some extensive recaps of the testimony so far. The latest prominent […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amazon, Book Banning, Diversity, Donald Maass, Evan Osnos, Joyce Carol Oates, Kate McKean, Nicole Chung, Penguin Random House

How to develop creative rituals (This week in books)

June 3, 2022 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! It’s publishing summer, which means things typically slow down a tad, though this year all bets are off. I still managed to find a few links for you. First, in case you missed it last week, I’m offering classes on navigating the traditional publishing process and getting a book deal! And you […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Angela Yeh, Donald Maass, Kelly Jensen, Liza Nash Taylor, Ukraine, Young Adult Literature

Legislation introduced for a new Federal Writers’ Project (This week in books)

May 7, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! A brief scheduling note that I am going on a post-vaccination blog holiday for a couple of weeks, and I’ll be back with fresh content on May 24. Hope everyone who has access to a vaccine gets one and please consider donating to countries in need if you have the means. I’ll […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Anne R. Allen, Donald Maass, Federal Writers' Project, Jane Friedman, Janet Reid, John B. Thompson

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