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The non-profit, independent publisher Sandorf Passage launched in late 2020 with a focus on publishing works in translation from Eastern European authors and sociopolitical and wartime books in particular. We spoke with Buzz Poole, the publisher, about how the press is developing and more. → Read More
Dallas, Texas’s Deep Vellum Publishing has had an extraordinary year, relaunching Dalkey Archive Press and publishing Ukrainian writer Andrei Kurkov's 'Grey Bees' just as Russia invaded Ukraine. We spoke with publisher Will Evans and this and other bookish matters. → Read More
We speak with Ben Schrank, the former head of Henry Holt and now head of upstart publisher Astra House, about the latest developments at the press and other bookish matters. → Read More
The Frankfurt Book Fair met the current challenges in publishing head on, addressing everything from the war in Ukraine to the cultural dominance of streaming services and rampant inflation. All the while, fairgoers proved faithful, returning to the fair after a three year absence, and reaffirming the resilience of the book industry. → Read More
“Romantasy,” a portmanteau describing a hot trend in YA titles, could just as easily be used to describe the mood flooding the show floor at the Frankfurt Book Fair: a giddy gratitude, even in the face of ever-increasing global issues. → Read More
This year's Global 50 CEO Talk at the Frankfurt Book Fair, held on October 19, featured Wattpad Webtoon's Ashleigh Gardner and Rakuten Kobo's Michael Tamblyn. → Read More
After a tough year, the biggest free literary festival in New York City looks toward the future. → Read More
The French author Annie Ernaux has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements, collective restraints of personal memory.” → Read More
In a new interview, Masashi Ando, who worked with Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, talks about adapting the novel The Deer King into a complex adult animation movie that you can now watch on Amazon, Apple, and more. → Read More
The National Book Foundation is preparing for its first live marquee event since the pandemic hit—even as its team looks to the horizon. → Read More
Joan Fusco, former manager of remainders and overstock at Abrams, died on September 14 following a debilitating stroke. She was 83. → Read More
Following discussions with the Authors Guild and the U.K.'s Society of Authors, Amazon will change its e-book return policy, no longer allowing readers to return e-books within seven days of purchase unless 10% of the book or less has been read. → Read More
The Penguin Publishing Group will launch a new imprint, Thesis, a sister imprint to the Portfolio and Sentinel imprints publishing “urgent idea-driven nonfiction.” Bria Sandford and Niki Papadopoulos will oversee the imprint's editorial operations. → Read More
The United States Senate voted on Tuesday to elevate the judge overseeing the lawsuit that will decide the fate of the proposed merger of Penguin Random House with Simon & Schuster to the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, filling the seat that belonged to Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. → Read More
'Pojangmacha People' by Jung Hae Chae is the latest winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Among previous winners are 'The Collected Schizophrenias' by Esmé Weijun Wang and 'The Empathy Exams' by Leslie Jamison, both of which went on to become bestsellers. → Read More
The Verso Books Guild US has ratified its union contract, the group announced this week on Twitter. The contract includes wage increases and better protections and benefits for its staffers, among other stipulations. → Read More
The Quarto Group will launch Kaddo, a new gift imprint, in fall 2023. Sarah Batten, editorial director for gift at Laurence King Publishing, is joining the company on September 20 as Kaddo's publisher. → Read More
Taylor Jenkins Reid's 'Carrie Soto Is Back' has a ball in its first week, Halloween books hit the children's and YA bestseller lists in earnest, and more. → Read More
St. Martin's Press will publish former German chancellor Angela Merkel's political memoirs, written with her longtime political advisor Beate Baumann, in the fall of 2024 in the U.S. and Canada. → Read More
HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray, testifying in the trial over whether the Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster trial will go through, said he was “shocked” by the price PRH offered for S&S. Later in the day, the defense cross-examined the government's economic witness. → Read More