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Trump threatens Penguin Random House (This week in books)

November 15, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week books! In a potential harbinger of what’s to come, Donald Trump threatened the New York Times and Penguin Random House with a demand for $10 billion in damages over articles and books critical of Trump. The latest exodus from the X formerly known as Twitter continues apace (including German anti-fascist soccer club St. […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, Bluesky, Booker Prize, Donald Trump, Erin Bowman, Kathleen Schmidt, Samantha Harvey, Suzy Vadori, Under the BQE

Why are YA sales declining? (This week in books)

March 24, 2023 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! News came this week that after years of increasing market share, young adult fiction is now among the only categories posting declines in sales. The #takes have rolled in, and many people cited book bans, a decrease in B&N shelf space for YA, and a lingering lack of diversity. Librarian Karen Jensen […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Anna-Verena Nosthoff, ChatGPT, Dan Blank, Erin Bowman, Felix Maschewski, Filippo Bernardini, Justin Sullivan, Karen Jensen, Katherine Marsh, Metaverse, Min Jin Lee, Young Adult Literature

Annie Ernaux wins the Nobel (This week in books)

October 14, 2022 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! French memoirist Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Madeleine Schwartz wrote a fascinating profile of her in 2020, and Adam Gopnik argues her win marks the ascendency of the memoir as “perhaps the leading genre of our time.” Despite recording record profits in the 2022 fiscal year, HarperCollins has nevertheless […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Annie Ernaux, Erin Bowman, Jenette McCurdy, Joe Ponepinto, Larissa Melo Pienkowski, Madeleine Schwartz, Mason Engel, Roberta Smith, Ron Charles, Tiona Nekkia McClodden

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