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Librarians are struggling (This week in books)

November 1, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, please keep my favorite publishing sage Mike Shatzkin and his wife in your thoughts, as she shared news of his declining health on Facebook. Just a tremendous, extremely fun individual and font of knowledge. This morning, I loved revisiting my interview with him in the early days of the pandemic […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Diversity, Genocide, Ghostwriting, Kate Zambreno, Ken Whyte, Libraries, LitRPG, Mike Shatzkin, Sophie Vershbow, Susan DeFreitas, Taylor Swift

Is it time for celebrity kids books to go? (This week in books)

October 25, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Another week, another celebrity children’s book announcement, this time actor Keira Knightley writing a book called I Love You Just the Same for Simon & Schuster UK. Maybe it was the anodyne title, maybe it was a “last straw” that had been building, but for some reason this time around it struck […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Adam Schatz, Alex Barasch, Bang Si-hyuk, Charlotte Levin, Clint Smith, Dan Sinykin, David Barnett, DongWon Song, Ella Creamer, Erin Somers, Evan Friss, Freida McFadden, Genocide, Jessa Crispin, Keira Knightley, Lucy Knight, Ruwaida Kamal Amer, Shardai Smith, Sophie Vershbow, Victoria Strauss

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