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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 […]

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 […]