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
- Book of The Little Prince author’s love letters marks end of feud between heirs (The Guardian)
- 3 Romance Novels Written By Stacey Abrams Will Be Reissued. (NPR)
- Report Urges Library Leaders to Address Decline in Public Library Usage Stats (Publishers Weekly)
- London Book Fair Outlines Virtual Events for 2020 (Publishers Weekly)
Worth Reading/Viewing
- Bram Stoker Claimed That Parts of Dracula Were Real. Here’s What We Know About the Story Behind the Novel (Dacre Stoker and J. D. Barker, Time)
- Revisiting Tamora Pierce’s Tortall Books as a Mother (Shana Westlake, Tor.com)
- ‘I couldn’t be with someone who liked Jack Reacher’: can our taste in books help us find love? (Lydia Spencer-Elliott, The Guardian)
- How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him (Emily Temple, Literary Hub)
- The Future of the Ripped Bodice Diversity Report. Book Riot’s P.N. Hinton takes a look at recent controversy surrounding TRB’s Diversity in Romance Report, and where things might go in the future.
- More steamy scenes in YA? P. N. Hinton, author of Book Riot’s Kissing Books newsletter, argues that no, there shouldn’t be — and furthermore, the requests for more steamy scenes should definitely not be coming from adult readers. I totally agree. (Geez, it’s hard enough to find age-appropriate books for precocious younger readers, without turning YA into adult-under-another-name.)
Books, Movies, and TV
- ‘The Lord Of The Rings’: Dominic Monaghan & Billy Boyd Launch Podcast (Yahoo.com)
- House of Dragons: Matt Smith Goes Full Targaryen in First Look at HBO’s Game of Thrones Spinoff (SyFyWire)
Lists
- Eight Unusual SFF Librarians Who (Probably) Won’t Shush You (Tor.com)
- 52 Book Journaling Prompts (Kelly Jensen, Book Riot)
- 20 New Books by Asian Authors to Get Excited About for AAPI Heritage Month. (Marie Claire)
Nicole @ BookWyrm Knits
Ugh, I agree that adults should not be asking for the content of YA novels. I have no problem with adults who read YA — I am one of them — but it is not OUR GENRE to influence. It should be for teens and young adults first, and it is their voices which should be listened to in how to grow the genre.
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