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Here come the best of the year lists (This week in books)

October 29, 2021 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! Did you know that William Faulkner and Graham Greene wrote children’s books? I certainly did not! The New York Times surveyed some lesser-known children’s books by writers more famous for their adult works. It has come to my attention that the year 2021 is nearly over (um when did that happens), which […]

Cormac McCarthy is not on Twitter (This week in books)

August 6, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! After the sudden death of longtime Scholastic CEO Richard Robinson, there’s now a succession drama surrounding his estate that’s worthy of, well, HBO’s Succession. This would be merely the stuff of tabloids, and not fit for the esteemed halls of This Week in Books, except that control of a $1.2 billion publisher […]