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Anne Carson wins the Nobel Prize in Literature (This week in books)

October 9, 2026 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! I’m on the road this weekend, so links only without commentary, but there are lots of good ones! Canadian Poet Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (gift link) – Alex Marshall, New York Times Here Are the Finalists for the 2026 National Book Awards (gift link) – Ash Wu, New […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Adam Nossiter, Alex Marshall, Alexandra Alter, Anne Carson, Anne Rice, Ash Wu, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Cormac McCarthy, Deana Lawson, Donald Maass, Kate McKean, Kate Tuttle, Kathleen Schmidt, Leigh Bardugo, National Book Awards, Pangram, Rhoda Feng, Susan Dominus, Wyatt Mason

Amazon allegedly building the most polluting power plant in the U.S. (This week in books)

August 14, 2026 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Normally this is the quiet dog days of publishing summer, but you wouldn’t know it from the number of links I have for you this week! New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. – Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times – As a […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Amazon, Ashli O'Connell, Barack Obama, Book covers, Caro Claire Burke, Ed Simon, Elon Musk, Erik Piepenburg, Hannah Miller, Hiroko Tabuchi, Jane Friedman, Jay Bennett, Jill Lepore, Kathleen Schmidt, MacKenzie Scott, Madison Muller, Mary Kole, Matt Baker, Mia Ballard, Middle Grade, Phil Steele, Pooja Makhijani, Rachel Syme, Rainesford Stauffer, Romantasy, Sam Altman, Science, The Drey Dossier

This year in books (2025)

December 19, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This year! Books! The word ninjas over at Merriam-Webster really nailed the word of the year for 2025: slop. Slop is on my mind so much lately. Not just for the uncannily creepy images and videos that have started filling my social media feeds, but for the way it’s affecting my perception of what’s real. […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Alexandra Alter, Books-A-Million, Dan Blank, Emma Loffhagen, Hockey Romance, Jeanne Whalen, Kathleen Schmidt, Kindle, Max Berlinger, Merriam-Webster, Molly Templeton, Victoria Strauss

Anthropic settlement class now searchable (This week in books)

October 3, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Anthropic Copyright Settlement Website – If your book was pirated by Anthropic and you or your publisher registered your copyright within five years, you may be in the settlement class that’s eligible for $3,000 per book. You can search here, and the Authors Guild has more information on how to file a […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Alexandra Alter, Angel Saunders, Anthropic, Authors Guild, Donald Maass, Elizabeth A. Harris, Jason Sanford, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Kathleen Schmidt, Lincoln Michel, Michael John Goodman, Mychel Threets, OpenAI, Rachel Raposas, Robert B. Barnett, Sam Spratford, Steven Lee Myers, Stuart A. Thompson, Tajia Isen, Tiffany Hsu, William Morris

Is the rapid release self-publishing era ending? (This week in books)

August 8, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, thanks so much to all my newsletter subscribers who joined my inaugural office hours yesterday evening! Thanks for your patience as I worked out the kinks. It was a lot of fun and I hope to do it again. Be sure and subscribe to my newsletter if you want to […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Andrea Long Chu, Charlie Jane Anders, Chloe Harcombe, Clara Bullock, Jane Friedman, Johny B. Truant, Kathleen Schmidt, Leigh Stein, Lisa Levy, Matt Pruznick, Michael Young, MJ Franklin, Natalie Canalis, Philip Plait, Science, Self-publishing, Thomas Chatterton Williams

BookCon is back (This week in books)

June 20, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, I’ll be out for the next few weeks to take a break around the 4th of July holiday, so I will see you again later in July. BookCon Will Return in 2026 – Jim Milliot, Publishers Weekly – After shuttering during the pandemic, the exposition formerly known as BookExpo will […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: 8th Note Press, A.I., BookCon, Dana A. Williams, Jane Friedman, Jim Milliot, Joshua Rothman, Kate McKean, Kathleen Schmidt, Lincoln Michel, Roger Federer, Rustin Dodd, Toni Morrison

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