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The award for drama goes to the National Book Awards (This week in books)

November 17, 2023 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! The blog will be dark next week as I celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, and I hope all who are celebrating have a happy and healthy (well… sort of healthy) time. If all goes to plan I’ll be back the week of November 27. Where to start with the National Book Awards? Well. […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: 92NY, Future of Publishing, George Packer, Henry Ford, LeVar Burton, Mari Cohen, National Book Awards, Pink, Viet Thanh Nguyen

Was the publishing industry really serious about diversity? (This week in books)

October 20, 2023 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, I don’t mean to paint an entire industry with too broad of a brush and there have certainly been pockets of commitment to reversing a checkered legacy of hiring and publishing patterns within the book business. But one of the looming questions was whether the publishing industry would really sustain […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Aaliyah Bilal, Adania Shibli, Armed Services Editions, Barnes & Noble, Diversity, Kat Brauer, LeVar Burton, Scholastic, Susan Dennard, The Mighty Pens, We Need Diverse Books

AI gets weird (This week in books)

February 17, 2023 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! The blog will go dark for the next few weeks as I take a planned breather (some might refer to this as a vacation). I’m planning to be back in March. Also: My editing slots are booking up extremely quickly this year, so please continue to reach out to me to get […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Chuck Wendig, Corina Knoll, Emily Leibert, Jevon Philips, Kate McKean, Kevin Roose, LeVar Burton, Lincoln Michel, Nikki High

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