BookExpo is rescheduling for late July
Shelf Awareness and Publisher’s Weekly are reporting that BookExpo, Unbound and BookCon have moved their May 27-31 convention to July 22-26. This is a bullish and heartening response from the… Read more »
IndieBound tells us how to keep support indies during the outbreak
Times are tough—not just tough, but terribly uncertain. But some things remain unchanged, and one of them is that we are never going to stop championing independent bookstores. So with… Read more »
Edmund de Waal mourns lost British libraries in latest installation
Contemporary artist Edmund de Waal, known mostly for his installations of row upon row of porcelain vessels, has a new installation on view at the British Museum. This time around,… Read more »
PenguinTeen goes viral on TikTok and you are now officially old
Hello, everyone. We come to you this bright Monday morning to sit you down and remind you of your advancing age and terminally increasing lethargy. Grab a coffee—let’s break it… Read more »
Mary Beard was vetoed as British Museum trustee for her politics
Mary Beard, the famed classicist, Cambridge don, and author of reader favorites like SPQR and Women & Power was rejected by the UK government as an appointee to the board… Read more »
Parents are upset that kids are upset by climate change books
In a recent piece in the Guardian, Patrick Barkham writes up what he calls the “Greta Thunberg effect”—the creation of a new canon of children’s books about climate change, which… Read more »
Bespoke subscription book service? Sure, why not!
The Guardian wrote a piece about Heywood Hill bookshop, a posh-sounding British bookshop (I’m sure I didn’t use that word right—“posh” that is, not “bookshop”) that once employed Nancy Mitford… Read more »
Amazon has been quietly removing Nazi books from its listings
For The New York Times, David Streitfeld reports that the online super store has been taking down listings for Nazi books including two books by David Duke and several titles… Read more »
A rare tiny book penned by Charlotte Brontë goes on display Saturday
Remember that story we were spinning about Charlotte Brontë, Judi Dench, books the size of a sensible portion of cheese, a man whose guilty brain is on fire? Ringing any… Read more »
Philly literary scene is thriving, full of women, features something called The Claw
Philadelphia’s literary resurgence has everything: a groundswell of new independent bookstores, a thriving community of readers, MFA programs, independent presses, a growing coterie of prominent writers, a women’s writing group… Read more »