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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

The curious case of Sherlock Holmes (This week in books)

February 4, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This week! Books! Sherlock Holmes is one of the most enduring and influential characters in literature, and he was inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle’s fascination with advances in science and how it might be applied to detective work. Then Doyle went and got super into spiritualism, much to the chagrin of his friend Harry Houdini. […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Arthur Conan Doyle, Derek Thompson, Fabrizio Roman, Jessica Faust, Margaret Wise Brown, Rheea Mukherjee, Rivka Galchen

‘The Last Cuentista’ wins the Newbery (This week in books)

January 28, 2022 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! The ALA Awards were handed out this week, and congrats to the winners! John Newbery Medal: The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera Randolph Caldecott Medal: Watercress – illustrated by Jason Chin and written by Andrea Wang Coretta Scott King illustrator and author awards: Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: ALA Awards, Jessica Faust, Jocelyn Van Tuyl, Lincoln Michel, Sara L. Schwebel, Supply Chain

The curious case of the midsized publishers (This week in books)

October 15, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! Now that Workman has been acquired by Hachette and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has been acquired by HarperCollins, where have all the midsized book publishers gone? Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly surveys this dying breed and cites the difficulty of building a backlist, the capital needed to grow into midsized publisher, and ongoing […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Angela Ackerman, Arthur C. Brooks, Betsy Lerner, Inkitt, Jane Friedman, Jessica Faust, publishing industry, Sally Rooney

Netflix goes Wonka (This week in books)

October 1, 2021 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week books! It’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a links roundup, and I have quite a few good ones to share. Let’s get to it! Netflix spent over £500 million on a golden ticket and purchased the rights to Roald Dahl’s entire catalog. They have movies, TV shows, and more planned. Jay […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Angie Hodapp, Austin Kleon, Erika Liodice, James McGowan, Jay Coles, Jessica Faust, Kristen Lamb, Kristin Nelson, Lincoln Michel, Livia Blackburne, Netflix, Squid Game, We Need Diverse Books, Zadie Smith

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