News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff
Bookish News
- ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Sales Soared Last Week; Sales of Books by Kamala Harris Growing (Publishers Weekly)
- Resurgent ALA Annual Conference Draws More than 13,000 to San Diego (Publishers Weekly)
- JD Vance writes foreword for Project 2025 leader’s upcoming book (The Guardian)
- ‘The ick’, ‘boop’ and ‘chef’s kiss’ added to Cambridge Dictionary (The Guardian)
Worth Reading/Viewing
- The Republicans’ Project 2025 is disastrous for books. And your freedom to read. (Literary Hub)
- How romance authors celebrate life and love with a disability (Washington Post)*
- Libraries can help end the culture wars. That’s why they’re under fire. (Washington Post)*
- Why your local indie bookstore might not have Hillbilly Elegy in stock this week (or ever). (Literary Hub)
- Which books should be considered classics? Our readers have thoughts. (Washington Post)*
* May be behind paywall, if you have reached your limit of articles per month.
Books, Movies, and TV
- The Hundred Best Books of the 21st Century. So far, that is. (Hey, it hasn’t even been 25 years yet!) (New York Times Book Review)
- What the New York Times Missed: 71 More of the Best Books of the 21st Century (Literary Hub)
Bookish Quote
Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits
That LitHub article on Hillbilly Elegy is a really well-reasoned piece about how indie bookstores can operate. And so, of course, there are some people in the comments (willfully) ignoring the whole point of the piece and instead crying censorship. Sometimes I can’t stand people.
Also, I like the LitHub list of books better than the NYT one. Though I guess that’s probably no surprise, since there’s more genre fiction on there.
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