In book titles, “Lie” is the new “Girl”
Remember when there were all those books being published that had the word “girl” in the title? Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Girl on the Train, Gone Girl. (No judgment… Read more »
Booksellers are showing up for Santa Fe victims. Elected officials? Not so much.
Over the weekend, the good people at Murder by the Book and Blue Willow Bookshop donated a percentage of their profits to Everytown, “a movement of Americans working together to… Read more »
A Maine bookstore pulls books by Junot Díaz after allegations
Earlier this week, we wrote that in the wake of #MeToo, some book publishers are pushing to include “morality clauses” in their agreements with authors — the idea being that… Read more »
God help us if publishers become “the morals police”
For Publishers Weekly, Rachel Deahl reports that book publishers are pressing for “morality clauses” to be included in deals with new authors. In the most immediate sense, this is a… Read more »
SJP could also use a year of rest and relaxation
“Bookish-chic” is a thing! And what better poster girl (actually, we can think of a lot of excellent poster girls for such a statement) than Sarah Jessica Parker, who runs… Read more »
Mississippi is being sued over prisoners’ book access
More of this garbage. We’ve reported pretty extensively on various outrageous and possibly illegal restrictions on what inmates are and are not allowed to read while they’re in prison. The… Read more »
Bestseller-wise, it doesn’t really matter if a book is pro- or anti-Trump
Last week, we wrote about Jennifer Calfas’s maybe-not-so-obvious finding that Donald Trump is the “surprising thing” that the top three bestselling books this year have in common. Ryan Teague Beckwith… Read more »
It’s up to “normal people” to buy James Comey’s book
After a huge media blitz, a staggering first print run, and all the timeliness you could ask for, how’s the first week of sales looking for James Comey’s book A Higher… Read more »
OK, but are Trump books really selling as much as it feels like they are?
Disclaimer: the methodology herein is, at best, dubious. But after reading Jennifer Calfas’s report for TIME that the top three best-selling books in 2018 so far have all been related… Read more »
A petition to protect the reading rights of prisoners
We’ve recently reported on efforts across the country to limit prisoners’ access to books. For a minute there, it looked like these restrictions were facing enough push-back that there might… Read more »