Katie Smith, Author at Book and Film Globe

HarperCollins Workers Strike

July 20, 2022 Katie Smith 0 Comments HarperCollins, union

Union plans a one-day event over pay, diversity commitments

Persuasion

You Can’t Persuade Me to Like the New ‘Persuasion’

July 14, 2022July 26, 2022 Katie Smith 1 Comment Brandon Tyler, Cosmo Jarvis, Dakota Johnson, Henry Golding, Persuasion, Richard E. Grant

The yassified Jane Austen adaptation has already bombed online

Patterson

James Patterson Checks His Privilege

June 15, 2022June 16, 2022 Katie Smith 0 Comments Dahlia Adler, Gina Denny, James Patterson, Stephen King

Twitter drags rich bestselling novelist after he claims white males have it tough

Indie Authors Criticize Policy That Allows Readers To Return Books to Amazon

June 8, 2022June 22, 2022 Katie Smith 0 Comments Amazon, BookTok, K. Bromberg, Lisa Kessler

If you want to get a book for free, go to the public library

Conversations With Friends

The Latest Sally Rooney Adaptation is a Bust

June 2, 2022June 8, 2022 Katie Smith 0 Comments Bridgerton, Conversations With Friends, Jemima Kirke, Normal People, Sally Rooney

‘Conversations with Friends’ and the conversation around on-screen sex

novels

Seven Novels to Read in 2022

February 3, 2022February 7, 2022 Katie Smith 0 Comments Adrienne Celt, Akwaeke Emezi, C.A. Davids, Chuck Klosterman, Elena Armas, Emily St. John Mandel, End of the World House, Irene Solà, Jennifer Egan, Mohsin Hamid, Olga Lies Draming, T.A. Willberg, The Spanish Love Deception, Xochitl Gonzalez

There are lots of ambitious, genre-defying novels on the docket

Bernardini

Publishing’s Biggest Scammer Has Got Merch Now

January 31, 2022February 2, 2022 Katie Smith 0 Comments

Fans of Filippo Bernadini ironically cash in

Joyce Carol Oates

CREATORS Writers

Joyce Carol Oates Goes to the Rack for Norman Mailer

January 10, 2022January 12, 2022 Katie Smith 0 Comments Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, The White Negro

She knows he stabbed his wife but loves him anyway

Literary Twitter: The Year In Review

December 20, 2021December 27, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Andy Ngo, Blake Bailey, Casey McQuiston, Chris Cuomo, Colleen Oefelein, Elin Hildebrand, J.K. Rowling, Josh Hawley, Powell's, Stanley Tucci, The New Yorker

Every writer embroiled in a 2021 cancellation controversy is actually thriving

Joyce Carol Oates

CREATORS Writers

Joyce Carol Oates Falls Down a Pronoun Hole

October 7, 2021April 3, 2022 Katie Smith 1 Comment Joyce Carol Oates, Lithub, Them, twitter

Literary Twitter roasts 83-year-old writer for wrongthink

Books

FICTION NON-FICTION

Eight Books to Take You Into Fall

August 20, 2021August 25, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments

And, no, Sally Rooney is not on this list

Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy: Still Not on Twitter

August 4, 2021March 16, 2022 Katie Smith 1 Comment Alex Shepherd, Cormac McCarthy, Emma Berquist, Maris Kreizman, twitter

The service verified a fake McCarthy account, not for the first time

ABA

ABA Apologizes for ‘Anti-Trans’ Title

July 19, 2021July 21, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments ABA, Abigail Shrier, American Bookseller's Association, Blackout, Candace Owens, Irreversible Damage

But what about an apology for the apology?

Content warnings

AUTHOR STUFF FICTION Politics

Authors Warn About Content Warnings in Books

June 17, 2021March 15, 2022 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, 2021March 15, 2022 Katie Smith 0 Comments

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

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