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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

Censorship (the real kind) sweeps the country (This week in books)

March 25, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 24 Comments

This week! Books! While newspaper editorials continue to clutch their pearls about “cancel culture” (say it with me: SHAMING IS NOT CENSORSHIP), there is real honest-to-god censorship sweeping the country, particularly targeting antiracist and LBGTQ books, with plenty of others caught in the crossfire. Two articles this week profile people fighting back: Odette Yousef at […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Censorship, David R. Godine, Japan, JoAnn Yao, Kristin Nelson, Lauren Hough, Melissa Febos, Tiffany Yates Martin, We Need Diverse Books

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

Here comes “hot books fall?” (This week in books)

August 27, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! We’re coming to the end of publishing summer, when those lazy summer Fridays give way to exciting fall submissions. Here are some of the best articles I saw from the past week. Our hopes for a hot vaxxed summer may have been dashed by Delta, but in the book world, sales are […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Bessel van der Kolk, coronavirus, David Masciotra, Emily Gould, Ezra Klein, James Lee Burke, Jessica Fuast, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kristin Nelson

Watch my ComicCon panel! (This week in books)

July 23, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! First up, I’m very excited to be participating in ComicCon @ Home again this year. A great panel I recorded with literary agents Kurestin Armada, Quressa Robinson, Bridget Smith, and literary manager Lars Theriot will go live on the SDCC YouTube page this evening at 8pm ET / 5pm PT. We talk […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: #OwnVoices, Alexander Manshel, Angie Hodapp, ComicCon, Donald Trump, J.D. Porter, Jeff Bezos, Kristin Nelson, Laura B. McGrath, We Need Diverse Books

RIP Eric Carle, creator of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” (This week in books)

May 28, 2021 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! Lots and lots of links from the past few weeks, but first, in case you’re not a newsletter subscriber, a quick heads-up that I’m offering special “Get your writing back on track” discounts, including 25-35% off coaching sessions and a special editing package to get you unstuck. So if you’re not yet […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alex Shepard, Camryn Garrett, Casey Cep, Constance Grady, Diana Giovinazzo, Emily Wenstrom, Eric Carle, James McGowan, Jane Friedman, Jessica Faust, Kate McKean, Kristin Nelson, Lincoln Michel, Lisa Lucas, NFTs, Rachelle Gardner, Simon & Schuster, Stacey Abrams

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