Print unit sales are up 6.8% and Black authors are topping the charts
Summer is alive, book stores are reopening, and print unit sales have risen by 6.8%, according to the PW Staff at Publishers Weekly! Following a bleak period for book sales,… Read more »
We asked, “Is it possible to make a team of soccer players with famous writers’ surnames from this year’s World Cup?” and the answer is “Yeah, kinda!”
As you may have heard, the World Cup started yesterday in Russia. The soccer World Cup. You know, the round ball? The one that isn’t basketball, football, or baseball? The… 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 »
Journalists, critics, and editors have released a statement of solidarity with workers of the Village Voice Union
We’re a little late to the party on this, but in case you haven’t already heard, members of the Village Voice Union (a historic chapter of the UAW Local 2110,… Read more »
Socialist Survivalism: A Democracy Beyond Democracy (Part III)
Socialist Survivalism: A Democracy Beyond Democracy This is Part III in a four-part series; don’t miss: Part I: Three Fateful Ironies of Democracy Part II: Beneath the Volcano III. Cult… Read more »
City-wide book club, “One Book, One New York,” announces the five books it wants everyone to read at the same time
One Book, One New York would like it if everyone in New York City was on the same page. Sponsored by BuzzFeed Books and the Commissioner of the New York… Read more »
Dear 2017, I challenge you to a read-off!
If you’re the kind of person that sets reading goals, you might decide on one of these great and popular reading challenges to spice up your reading in 2017. Including… Read more »
Following shootings, a surge in sales of books on race in the Twin Cities
As the people of the Twin Cities grapple with the police shooting of Philandro Castile outside of St. Paul, together with the shootings in Baton Rouge and Dallas, some seem to… Read more »
Sonia Sotomayor likes books and is a hero
Justice Felix Frankfurter was many things: an early columnist for the New Republic, a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, an immigrant who had a tremendous impact on his adoptive country,… Read more »
Ta-Nehisi Coates decides not to move to Brooklyn
Earlier this month, we wrote about a new home that writer Ta-Nehisi Coates had purchased for $2.1 million in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. We covered the story—originally reported by the New York Post—as part… Read more »