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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

The book world rallies for Los Angeles (This week in books)

January 24, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! In a week where we have a new president and rich, evil dweebs are out doing Nazi salutes, the fight to ban books continues apace. In Utah, students can no longer even bring their personal copies of banned books to school. The list of banned books includes perennial book ban favorite Ellen […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amanda Palmer, Amazon, Censorship, Climate Change, Ellen Hopkins, Gina Cherelus, Jessa Crispin, Justin Ray, Margaret Atwood, Nathalie op de Beeck, Neil Gaiman, Nikki High, Octavia's Bookshelf, OpenAI, Penguin Random House, Spike Jonze

RIP David Lynch (This week in books)

January 17, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, I’m always so excited when my clients have books coming out, congrats to Matt Barrows and Jessica Barrows Beebe on the publication of their twisty thriller Muddy the Water, which comes out on January 28! Pre-order, pre-order! Very sad news this week as we lost one of the greatest artists […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Barry Gifford, David Lynch, David Moldawer, Jessica Barrows Beebe, Josh Bell, Matt Barrows, Meta, Neil Gaiman, Piracy, Vanessa Friedman, Wattpad

“Sweet Valley High” creator passes away at 92 (This week in books)

August 2, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! If you’re a Gen Xer or Cusp Millennial chances are you either binged on the Sweet Valley High books or know someone who did. The creator of the series, Francince Pascal, passed away at 92. Congrats to the Booker Prize finalists! New allegations have emerged against author Neil Gaiman, which he denies. […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alissa Wilkinson, Booker Prize, Censorship, Francine Pascal, J.D. Vance, Loren Long, Neil Gaiman, The Matrix, Victoria Strauss, Writer Beware

A.I. comes for the book world (This week in books)

July 12, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, some very distressing news regarding two famous authors. The late Alice Munro’s daughter Andrea Robin Skinner published an essay about how Munro stood by Skinner’s stepfather even after he admitted to sexually abusing Skinner. Nearly as distressing as that, all of this was more or less an open secret among […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Alice Munro, Andrea Long Chu, Andrew Schenker, Caspar David Friedrichs, Cassandra Jenkins, Elisabeth Egan, Emily Henry, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Grayson Haver Currin, Inkitt, Jacques Testard, John Grisham, Kate McKean, Neil Gaiman, R.O. Kwon, Rachel Cusk, Rebecca Ackermann, Rebecca Mead, Ryan Lackey, Zachary Fine

This Week in Publishing 2/26/10

February 26, 2010 by Nathan Bransford

It’s my last day in Mexico, and what a trip it’s been. My wife and I are staying in a hotel at the top of a funicular (every morning should start with a funicular ride) and are enjoying the sights of Guanajuato, an old silver and gold mining town that has Parisian alleys and Mexican […]

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