News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff
Book News
- National Book Award for Translation Added (Publishers Weekly)
- Celeste Ng Is Author Ambassador for Independent Bookstore Day 2018 (Shelf Awareness)
- Publishers call on Man Booker prize to drop American authors (The Guardian)
- Amazon Sales Soared in 2017 (Publishers Weekly)
Worth Reading/Viewing
- A prize for thrillers with no violence against women? That’s not progressive (The Guardian) Sophie Hannah responds to last week’s announcement of the Staunch Prize for books not featuring violence against women, pointing out the flaws in the logic behind the prize. (Some of this argument had occurred to me as well.)
- Can Instagram Make Poems Sell Again? (John Maher, Publishers Weekly)
- Wendy Mitchell on her extraordinary Alzheimer’s memoir (The Guardian)
- I’m Not a Superhero: The Stress of Library Work (Katie McLain, Book Riot)
- Ilene Schneider writes about the pitfalls of binge reading (rabbi.author blog)
Book & Movie Announcements
Awesome Lists
- Our Favorite Groundhog Day Time Loops in SFF (Tor.com)
- 25 Children’s Books for African American History Month (Book Riot)
- Five YA Series with Geeky Heroes (Tor.com)
Bookish Quote
That’s it for this week!
Nicole
I love the article on time loops! And… I may have just added some stories to my TBR list because of it…
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Lark_Bookwyrm
That’s the danger of reading those lists! I usually end up adding a few books to mine, too. 😉