Katie Smith, Author at Book and Film Globe

Authors Warn About Content Warnings in Books

June 17, 2021June 22, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Ashley Bloom, Carmen Maria Machado, Content warnings, Erin Taylor, Every Bone a Prayer, Haunt Publishing, In The Dream House, Nick Mamatas, Renée Dahlia, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Carmen Maria Machado, Silvia Moreno Garcia, and others take to Twitter to decry censorship

FICTION Young Adult

Literary World Reacts to Publishers’ Striking Questionable Lines

June 11, 2021June 16, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments

They pulled ‘offensive’ dialogue from authors Elin Hilderbrand’s and Casey McQuiston’s best-sellers

TELEVISION

Easttown and Down

May 12, 2021June 10, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Delaware County, Delco, Evan Peters, James McAvoy, Kate Winslet, Mare of Easttown, Philadelphia, Silver Linings Playbook, Wawa

A Philadelphian picks apart Kate Winslet‘s accent in ‘Mare of Easttown’

FICTION NON-FICTION Tech

Bookstagrammers Demand Publishers Pay Up

May 3, 2021May 17, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments @booksteahenny, Bookstagram, BookTok, Breonna Taylor, Crystal Forte, Ibram X. Kendi, Instagram, Jonathan Mattingly, Mike Pence, Paul Simon, Sienna Faris, Stamped, TikTok

What does the book industry owe its influencers?

AUTHOR STUFF Memoir NON-FICTION

Writer Lauren Hough Targets Goodreads Reviews

April 26, 2021May 25, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Goodreads, Lauren Hough

Hough’s online supporters turned her debut memoir into a New York Times Bestseller

FICTION Politics

The Saga of ‘Detransition, Baby’

April 12, 2021April 16, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Carmen Maria Machado, Detransition Baby, Elmer MacBride, Garth Greenwell, JK Rowling, Torrey Peters, Wild Women Writing Club, Women's Prize for Fiction

U.K. Women’s Prize nomination earns anti-trans backlash

NON-FICTION Politics

Amazon Pulls ‘When Harry Became Sally’ and Other anti-LGBTQ Titles

March 15, 2021March 22, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Ben Shapiro, Jeff Bezos, Ryan Anderson, When Harry Became Sally

The move comes after Republican lawmakers complained to CEO Jeff Bezos—which backfired.

TELEVISION

Where ‘Search Party’ Went To Die

March 5, 2021March 9, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Alia Shawkat, Busy Phillips, Christine Taylor, J Smith Cameron, Michael Showalter, Parker Posey, R.L. Stine, Ron Livingston, Search Party, Susan Sarandon

A former fan wonders why the HBO Max seasons suck

FICTION

‘A Spy in the Struggle’ is No Struggle to Read

February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments a Spy in the Struggle, Aya de León, James Bond

Aya de León pushes the spy thriller into 2021.

Politics

De Chiara Literary Agency Fires Agent for Using Right-Wing Social Media Platforms

January 27, 2021February 5, 2021 Katie Smith 8 Comments Colleen Oefelein, Gab, Jennifer De Chiara, Jesse Singal, Marissa Corvisiero, Parler, Sasha White, Thomas Chatterton Williams

Anti-cancel culture Tweeters call the termination ‘absolute madness’

FICTION Memoir NON-FICTION

Seven Books to Look Forward to in 2021

January 25, 2021January 28, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Crying in H Mart, Daniel Loedel, Elemental, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie, Martha Waters, Melissa Broder, Michelle Zauner, Milk Fed, Patricia Lockwood, To Love and To Loathe

Serious, sad edition

FICTION NON-FICTION

New Yorker Staff Demand Higher Wages

January 22, 2021January 25, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Alex Zaragosa, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Jo Livingstone, New Yorker, New Yorker Union, Rashida Tlaib, Shane Smith, Talia Lavin, Vice

Fellow media members and lawmakers supported them online

CREATORS FICTION Writers

Literary Twitter Goes Rooney Tunes Over New Sally Rooney Novel Announcement

January 14, 2021January 13, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Amber Sparks, Beautiful World Where Are You, Brandon Taylor, Elisa Gabbert, Farrar Strauss & Giroux, Hulu, Lorrie Moore, Mitzi Angel, Normal People, Sally Rooney

Buy stock in Kleenex for September 2021

CREATORS NON-FICTION Politics Writers

Ngo is a No-Go at Powell’s

January 12, 2021January 18, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Andy Ngo, Portland, Powell's Books, Proud Boys, Sarah Jeong, Unmasked

Portland bookstore pulls anti-Antifa book after protests

NON-FICTION Politics

Simon & Schuster De-Platforms Josh Hawley

January 7, 2021January 11, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Bob Woodward, Donald Trump, James Gunn, John Bolton, Josh Hawley, Mary L. Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Sean Hannity, Simon & Schuster, Tucker Carlson

After supporting Capitol attack, Missouri Senator loses his publisher

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