In a letter to members following the 2024 election, American Booksellers Association CEO Allison Hill voiced concerns about the future of the government's lawsuit against Amazon and the possibility of “new unconstitutional legislation and book bans” under a second Trump administration. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
“I adopted Fuck This Shit as my motto during the Trump administration and find it applies to something new every day.” Abigail Thomas on getting a (superb) tattoo at 80. | Lit Hub Memoir McKayla Coyle recommends sapphic reads for every occasion (like if “you’re a sad girl, or a hot girl, or a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-27 10:30:50 UTC ]
The committee, which had collapsed under the Trump Administration, will advise President Biden and the heads of the three major U.S. cultural agencies—the IMLS, the NEA, and the NEH—on “policy objectives, philanthropic and private sector engagement, and other efforts to enhance federal support... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
There has been lots of media buzz around the latest wave of books about the Trump administration. But how are they selling compared to yesterday's hits? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-08-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
Josh Rogin wants to “awaken” readers to the character of the Chinese Communist Party. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-12 13:00:00 UTC ]
More than 500 book industry professionals have added their names to a call for publishers not to sign up veterans of the departing president’s governmentFive-hundred American authors and literary professionals have signed a letter calling on US publishers not to sign book deals with members of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-01-19 16:25:50 UTC ]
More than 250 members of the literary community signed a letter this week urging publishers not to sign book deals with anyone in the Trump administration. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-01-15 19:12:33 UTC ]
In an open letter, more than 250 authors, agents, booksellers, and publishers urged publishers not to sign book deals with members of the Trump Administration or anyone "who incited, suborned, instigated, or otherwise supported the January 6, 2021, coup attempt." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
Yesterday, Georgia voters returned to the polls to decide which candidates would represent the state in the US Senate—and, by extension, which party would control Congress for the next two years. Early this morning, national outlets declared Reverend Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, the winner of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-01-06 15:02:37 UTC ]
The 2021 budget marks the eighth straight year of increases for IMLS, the last four years of which included proposals by the Trump Administration to permanently eliminate the agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
For a while, Melania Trump has teased that she might write a book after the Trump family exits the White House. I, like many, had mixed feelings. On one hand, it’d be interesting to see the Trump administration from the point of the view of the famously sullen First Lady; but on the other hand,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-10 18:18:04 UTC ]
This week Dave Miller, who hosts a daily talk show on Oregon Public Broadcasting, interviewed “two very tired people”: Tuck Woodstock and Sergio Olmos, both independent journalists. Since late May, daily protests in solidarity with Black lives and against police brutality have taken place in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-07-24 12:18:51 UTC ]
After months of delays due to the Trump administration's attempts to prevent its publication, John Bolton's White House memoir finally lands today—and while some booksellers are eager to sell it, others refuse to do so. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
A federal judge ruled Saturday that former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton can move forward in publishing his tell-all book despite efforts by the Trump administration to block the release because of concerns that classified... Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2020-06-20 14:56:06 UTC ]
In a response filed ahead of a hearing set for today, former national security adviser John Bolton accused the Trump administration of using the government’s prepublication review process to suppress his memoir, 'The Room Where It Happened.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Room Where It Happened, John Bolton’s memoir of his time in the Trump administration, is the #1 bestseller on Amazon in advance of its release on June 23, even as the government has sued to slow its publication. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, claims that Bolton did not fully cooperate with the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-06-17 16:57:46 UTC ]
It’s hard to imagine an industry more poorly prepared for the arrival of a global pandemic than the media business. Even before “coronavirus” became a household word, the industry was already reeling from a series of body blows, most of them delivered by Google and Facebook and their dominance... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-04-20 11:45:00 UTC ]
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has written to the US Office of Science and Technology Policy expressing its “alarm” at rumours that the Trump administration is considering a “precipitous” move to require all federally funded research to be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-18 20:30:17 UTC ]
Details remain murky, but this week the AAP issued a strong rebuke to an open access policy said to be under consideration by the Trump Administration. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
A forthcoming book by an anonymous author identified only as "a senior official in the Trump administration" describes U.S. President Donald Trump as volatile, incompetent and unfit to be commander in chief, according to excerpts published by The... Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2019-11-08 04:31:39 UTC ]