This Month in Book News (December 2022 + past posts from previous three months)

This Month in Book News (December 2022 + past posts from previous three months)

This is a continuation of my series “This Month in Book News,” a new iteration of the “This Week in Book News” segment I previously wrote for my Facebook business page. Post-publication, I combined previous posts into this one and retitled this page.

My December round-up of book news includes:

*Book publishing’s “best friend” and “starriest powerbroker”

*Why Penguin Random House is back in the news

*The latest on the “most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle ever written”

*Why this has been a stellar year for South Asian writers

*The books, authors, words & more of the year

Happy New Year!

[Featured image created from various images, clockwise from left: Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka (taken from The Guardian); the cover image of Hernan Diaz’s TRUST; Reese Witherspoon (taken from The Guardian); the poster for “Catherine Called Birdie” (taken from IMDB), the Penguin Random House logo; the TikTok logo; Colleen Hoover (taken from the author’s website)]

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My November round-up of book news includes:

*The demise of the PRH-S&S merger and the latest on the HarperCollins Union strike

*The winners of this year’s National Book Awards

*The best books of the year according to the New York Times, Barnes & Noble, and me

*The significance of “gaslighting,” “permacrisis”—and ”goblin mode”?

*Why Joan Didion, Virginia Woolf, and Bob Dylan are back in the news

Featured photo taken from BBC news

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My October round-up of book news covers:

*The winners of the Nobel and Booker Prizes and National Book Award finalists

*The 100th anniversary of “the most important poem of the twentieth century”

*Literary legends who are soon to be immortalized on postage stamps

*The latest on Prince Harry’s memoir, SPARE

*The children’s classic that has been adapted into a feature film, an opera—and now a musical

Featured photo taken from PTC News

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In my September round-up of book news, I cover:

*How profits are up in the publishing industry, but it might be “broken”

*Banned Books Week, and the city that’s become a “book sanctuary city”

*The famous (and infamous) people who are writing novels

*Literary losses, including Booker Prize winning author Dame Hilary Mantel

*And the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, who was “a true bibliophile”

Featured photo taken from the Penguin UK website

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This Month in Book News (August 2022 + past posts from previous three months)

This Month in Book News (August 2022 + past posts from previous three months)

 This is a continuation of my series “This Month in Book News,” a new iteration of the “This Week in Book News” segment I previously wrote for my Facebook business page. Post-publication, I combined previous posts into this one and retitled this page.

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Highlights from my August book news round-up include:

*Publishing’s “trial of the century” *Why, as the New Yorker says, it’s time for Rushdie to receive the Nobel Prize *The new novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah, the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize *August’s literary losses (sadly, several) and page-to-screen releases (some based on short stories) *And for fun: a list of homes lived in or imagined by famous authors that are currently on the market

Happy Labor Day weekend!

(Featured photo taken from Publishers Weekly)

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My July round-up of book news includes:

*The books that made the longlist for the 2022 Booker Prize

*The latest on another potential “Big Five” publishing merger

*July’s novel-to-film releases (one is being called a “swampy Twilight”)

*A Gone Girl-themed cruise along the Danube (pitched as a “killer opportunity”)

*A brief history of “Paperback Book Day”

and more!

(Image from Literary Hub)

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Highlights from my June round-up of book news include:

*The winner of a major book award and the end of another

*The newly discovered novel by a French author that’s creating a stir

*A list of books that have gone viral on TikTok and are being turned into films

*The picture book that’s been out for 50 years and has been made into a musical and a movie

*Broadway’s previews of “The Kite Runner” and BAM’s stage production of “A Little Life”

Happy Birthday, America, and happy long weekend to all!

(Image from the Women’s Prize for Fiction website)

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In my May round-up of book news you’ll find:

*The winners of the Pulitzer Prize and International Booker Award

*Margaret Atwood’s unique response to book bans

*The book about 1960s France that’s been adapted into the year’s “timeliest movie”

*The legacy of GONE GIRL over the psychological thriller market

*Amanda Gorman’s heartbreaking and hopeful new poem

and much more

(Image from the Booker Prizes website)

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This Month in Book News (April 2022 + news from previous month)

This Month in Book News (April 2022 + news from previous month)

 This is a continuation of my series “This Month in Book News,” a new iteration of the “This Week in Book News” segment I previously wrote for my Facebook business page. Post-publication, I combined previous posts into this one and retitled this page.

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My April round-up of book news includes:

*The winners of the LA Times Book Prize and the Edgar Awards

*The 70 books chosen to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee

*Book bannings and cancellations

*The novel that became a movie, then a stage play, and is now an opera

*The books that have turned 10, 15, 20, 100 & 120 (hint about this last stat is the image for this post!)

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Some of the book news that made headlines in March:

*The shuttering of all 68 of Amazon’s physical stores

*How Ukrainians are using books to fight back

*The winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards

*The questions raised by Jack Kerouac’s centenary

*The seven Academy Award Best Picture nominations that are adaptations of books, short stories, musicals or films

(Image from Literary Hub)

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This Month in Book News (January & February 2022)

This Month in Book News (January & February 2022)

This is the beginning of my series “This Month in Book News,” a new iteration of the “This Week in Book News” segment I previously wrote for my Facebook business page.

February news:

*The finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes

*Addressing racism in “Death on the Nile,” based on Agatha Christie’s book of the same name

*The “bitter row” over Rosemary Sullivan’s THE BETRAYAL OF ANNE FRANK

*The centennial of the publication of James Joyce’s ULYSSES

*Poems by Ukrainian writers Iya Kiva and Ilya Kaminsky

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See second part of post for January news!

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