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Cormac McCarthy is not on Twitter (This week in books)

August 6, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! After the sudden death of longtime Scholastic CEO Richard Robinson, there’s now a succession drama surrounding his estate that’s worthy of, well, HBO’s Succession. This would be merely the stuff of tabloids, and not fit for the esteemed halls of This Week in Books, except that control of a $1.2 billion publisher […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Chanté Griffin, Cormac McCarthy, James McGowan, Jessica Faust, Kim Lionetti, Kristen Lamb, Lincoln Michel, Scholastic

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

June 11, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

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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