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National book award winners! (This week in books)

November 20, 2020 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! It was a big week in the book world! Congrats to the National Book Award winners! Fiction: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu Nonfiction: The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Tamara Payne and Les Payne Poetry: DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi Translated literature: Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Charles Yu, Don Mee Choi, Donald Trump, Douglas Stuart, Jessica Faust, Kacen Callender, Kate McKean, Les Payne, Morgan Giles, National Book Awards, publishing industry, Tamara Payne, Walter Mosely, We Need Diverse Books, Yu Miri

Don’t dehumanize authors (This week in books)

August 7, 2020 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Certain segments of the book buying and reviewing world have long held that they can say whatever the heck they want about authors, but any authors who respond are by definition “authors behaving badly.” The latest broadside against this dynamic comes from author Kacen Callender, who argues that the “idea that an […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, DongWon Song, Gayle Jones, Hugo Awards, Kacen Callender, Stephenie Meyer

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