On March 25, U.S. District Court judge Stephen Locher doubled down on an injunction against Iowa SF 496, a “likely facially unconstitutional” 2023 state law that has led to the mass removal of books from Iowa public school libraries. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of adult fiction fell 5.7% in the month—the main factor in driving down total sales by 0.7% at the companies that report results to the Association of American Publishers’ StatShot program. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
Ahead of the Black British book festival, literary figures say the number of books being published by Black writers has ‘plummeted’UK publishing is less accessible to Black authors now than it was five years ago, according to some of the biggest names in the industry.The Black Lives Matter... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-03-26 17:06:01 UTC ]
Dennis McDougal, a former L.A. Times reporter and bestselling author of over a dozen books, including a biography of Otis Chandler, dies after car accident. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-03-26 15:54:43 UTC ]
Mariam Rahmani’s debut novel is both charmingly familiar and totally unpredictable. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2025-03-26 14:00:00 UTC ]
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Press Month—a Lit Hub staff member will be recommending a small... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-03-26 13:15:47 UTC ]
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 30, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-03-26 13:00:26 UTC ]
Read these new trans historical fiction books in support of the 2025 Trans Rights Readathon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-03-26 11:30:00 UTC ]
Fiona McFarlane has won the 21st annual Story Prize for her collection Highway Thirteen. The Story Prize’s $20,000 prize is among the largest first-prize amounts of any annual U.S. book award for fiction.The judges—writer and editor Elliott Holt, writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin, and bookseller Lucy... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-03-26 11:20:24 UTC ]
Two new dark academia stories, a story of rage, and more of this week's new YA book releases. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-03-26 11:00:00 UTC ]
“Somewhere beneath the bugle blast, the beer bloat, the crush of bodies, I was part of something.” Kyle Seibel on attending the Gathering of the Kyles (in Kyle, Texas). | Lit Hub Memoir “I am talking, of course, about #Scandoval, a word that I, a lowly lifestyle journalist and nascent author,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-03-26 10:30:02 UTC ]
A 70-year-old woman, her great-nephew, and a mysterious pair of armchairs take an action-filled trip to Paris in the graphic novel murder mystery Gilt Frame (Dark Horse, Mar.), the first-ever collaboration by the mother-son duo. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
The latest volume in Abouet and Oubrerie’s graphic novel series about a savvy teenage girl’s adventures in 1980s Côte d’Ivoire finds its protagonist, Aya, in college, where she gets caught in a campus protest turned violent. A 7-page excerpt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
After two months of intense speculation, the comics business finally has an answer to its biggest question of late: the bankrupt Diamond Comic Distributors is slated for acquisition by Alliance Entertainment, a new player in the sector. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
As challenges to free expression show no signs of abating, Penguin Random House and the National Coalition Against Censorship have announced separate fundraising initiatives to counter the threat. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
The U.K.-based academic publisher has announced plans to use AI to translate books into English from languages that would otherwise have too small of an audience to justify paying for human translation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
From Doubleday to Grove to Carroll & Graf, the veteran publisher and mentor to many lived a life of books that those who know him remember as one of a kind. Here, his former assistant shares her own memories. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Washington, D.C., who urged President Donald Trump to show “mercy” in his second term, has inked deals with two Penguin Random House imprints for books for young people. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
Ahead of the States' National Library Week, Penguin Random House and Sourcebooks open a 'Banned on the Run a fundraising effort. The post Penguin Random House’s ‘Banned on the Run’ Event: US$10,000 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-03-26 02:24:13 UTC ]
As Bologna Book Plus prepares its full-morning "AI Summit for April 1, new condemnation of Meta and pirated copyrighted content. The post UK Publishers and Cambridge, Call out Meta and Piracy in Generative AI Training appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-03-25 22:30:24 UTC ]