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PEN and PRH sue a Florida school district over book banning (This week in books)

May 19, 2023 by Nathan Bransford 4 Comments

This week! Books! Big news this week as PEN America, Penguin Random House, and a group of authors have filed suit against the Escambia County School District for violating the equal protection clause in the Constitution by targeting disproportionately nonwhite and LGBTQ authors with book bans. This is a significant legal salvo in the midst […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Authors Guild, Censorship, Heather Armstrong, J.R. Moehringer, James McGowan, Jeffrey Fleishman, Jessica Faust, Kate McKean, New Leaf Literary, PEN America, Penguin Random House, Prince Harry, Sarah McCarry, Sudowrite

A new literary agent scam to watch out for (This week in books)

April 21, 2023 by Nathan Bransford 4 Comments

This week! Books! Victoria Strauss at the indispensable site Writer Beware has a new scam to watch for, which starts with a “literary agent” promising to work only on commission who will take your book to the next level, only for additional fees to start rolling in. Be careful out there! Also from Writer Beware, […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Bookstores, ChatGPT, David Modlawer, Elisa Lorello, Farhad Manjoo, Kathy Ishizuka, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, PEN America, Scams, Stephen Marche, Victoria Strauss

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

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