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State-sponsored censorship week (This week in books)

September 19, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! I’m back, and luckily nothing at all happened while I was away (okay everything happened while I was away). Lots and lots of links this week! Let’s get to it. 2026 We Need Diverse Books Mentorship Program Application – Applications are now open for We Need Diverse Books’ terrific mentorship program for […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Anne R. Allen, Censorship, Charlie Jane Anders, Copyright, Curtis Brown Ltd., Donald Trump, Dorian Lynskey, Ed Nawotka, Elaine R. Frieman, Fran Hoepfner, Genocide, Jimmy Kimmel, Jonny Geller, Kate McKean, Kristen Weber, Lee Child, Penguin Random House, Pooja Salhotra, Robert Lee Brewer, Russ Buettner, Scams, Sophia Stewart, Susanne Craig, Taylor Lorenz, Victoria Strauss, We Need Diverse Books

A literary takedown for the ages (This week in books)

February 7, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

The blog will be dark the next few weeks for a winter break. Feel free to reach out to me for editing! This week! Books! I particularly enjoyed this week’s crop of articles, which have served as a nice respite from *waves at the world outside* all of that. First, let’s get some of the […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Alexander Deley, Amanda Palmer, Amazon, Andrea Long Chu, Bookstores, Dan Blank, David Lynch, Kristen Weber, Kyle MacLachlan, Marc Weingarten, Meta, Neil Gaiman, Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, Pamela Paul, Patrick O'Brian, Piracy

WNDB moves away from #OwnVoices (This week in books)

June 11, 2021 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! We Need Diverse Books announced this week that they are moving away from the term #OwnVoices, which had been used to refer to authors writing books and characters that reflect their background, citing the vagueness of the term and lack of safety for authors. As others have noted, the phrase had already […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Ashleigh Renard, J. Michael Straczynski, Kristen Weber, Naomi Osaka, Ralph Ellison, Scholastic, We Need Diverse Books

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