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Wednesday, April 14, 2021

My Salinger Year

FILM NON-FICTION

We Finally Get To See ‘My Salinger Year’

April 7, 2021April 12, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments IFC Film Center, J.D. Salinger, Joanna Rakoff, Margaret Qualley, My Salinger Year, Philippe Falardeau, Sigourney Weaver

IFC’s reopening in New York City brings adaptation of Joanna Rakoff’s memoir to the world

Banned Book List

FICTION NON-FICTION Politics

The ALA’s Annual Banned Book List: A Sobering Snapshot of American Censorship

April 6, 2021April 9, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Alex Gino, All American Boys, American Library Association, Banned Book List, Brendan Kiely, George, Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds, John Steinbeck, Laurie Halse Anderson, Of Mice and Men, Something Happened In Our Town, Speak, Stamped, To Kill A Mockingbird

Parents and school boards still want to pull titles from shelves

Astros

NON-FICTION Sports

The Astros Cheated

April 1, 2021April 5, 2021 Art Edwards 2 Comments

An excellent forthcoming book fully reminds us of their deeply evil 2017 duplicity

Trauma

Trauma and Recovery with Randall Bell

March 17, 2021March 17, 2021 Elizabeth Hazard 0 Comments Post-Traumatic Thriving, Randall Bell, Trauma

An interview with the author of a book on how to thrive in the face of disaster

When Harry Became Sally

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.

pandemic

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The Things That Got Us Through the Pandemic Year

March 11, 2021March 17, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments AEW, Animal Crossing, Big Mouth, Bill Burr, Devolution, Dungeons and Dragons, Edward St. Aubyn, Eurovision, Guy Fieri, Hard Life, Jaja Ding Dong, James Tynion, Liam Gallagher, Life on Mars, Liu Cixin, Magnum P.I., Max Brooks, Patrick Melrose, Sault, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads, Ted Lasso, The Big Goodbye, The Department of Truth, The Good Place, The Mandalorian, The Three Body Problem, Tiger King, Werner Herzog, YouTube

In a tough 12 months, our contributors turned to what they could

Jordan Peterson

NON-FICTION Politics

The Return of Jordan Peterson

March 9, 2021March 16, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments

The book they couldn’t cancel has arrived

Women's History

NON-FICTION Young Adult

The Best Young Adult Nonfiction for Women’s History Month

March 2, 2021March 9, 2021 Lily Moayeri 1 Comment Alice Paul, Ann Angel, Becoming, Charles and Emma, Claudette Colvin, Deborah Heiligman, Deborah Kops, Hidden Figures, I Am Malala, Irène Curie, Janis Joplin, Lise Meitner, Lita Judge, Malala Yousafzai, Margot Lee Shetterly, Mary's Monster, Michelle Obama, Phillip M. Hoose, Radioactive!, Rebecca Skloot, Sally Ride, Sonia Sotomayor, Tam O’Shaughnessy, The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Twice Toward Justice, Winifred Conkling

From scientists to activists to singers, these women changed the world

Stan Lee

Biography NON-FICTION

‘Nuff Said: The Tragedy of Stan Lee

March 1, 2021March 3, 2021 Trevor Seigler 1 Comment

New biography pulls back the scam behind the myth

Land

Give Me Land, Lots of Land

February 24, 2021February 26, 2021 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Gareth Jones, Land, Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester’s history of people’s endless thirst for real estate

Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee, MLK, and How We Tell Our History

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Martin Luther King, Nine Days, Paul Kendrick, Robert E. Lee and Me, Stephen Kendrick, Ty Seidule

Two new histories about changing our hearts and minds

Joan Didion

Joan Didion in Winter

February 10, 2021February 12, 2021 Raymond Cummings 0 Comments Ernest Hemingway, Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, Political Fictions, Tony Richardson

‘Let Me Tell You What I Mean’, by literature’s coolest customer

Bookshop

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The Little Bookshop That Could (Or Couldn’t)

February 9, 2021February 18, 2021 Michael Washburn 3 Comments Amazon, Capitol Hill Books, Cavalier House Books, City Lights Bookstore, Elizabeth's Bookshops, Gilbert Jeune, LivreMoi, Malvern Books, Octavia Books, Owl's Nest Books, Powell's, Red Kangaroo Books, The Strand, Under the Silver Tree

Loyal customers rush to help indie booksellers in the time of COVID-19, but the real existential menace looms

Publishing Power 30

AUTHOR STUFF FICTION NON-FICTION

The Book and Film Globe Publishing Power 30

February 1, 2021February 24, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Allison Hill, Amanda "Binky" Urban, Amy Einhorn, Ann Binney, Bill Clegg, Broadside PR, Celeste Ng, Dana Canedy, David Bowles, David Gernert, Dignidad Literaria, Ebony LaDelle, Ellen Levine, Erin Kodicek, James Daunt, Jonathan Karp, Julie Barer, Kimberly Burns, Krishan Trotman, L.L. McKinney, Leigh Haber, Linda Duggins, Lisa Lucas, Lois Kim, Madeline McIntosh, Michael Taeckens, Myriam Gurba, Pennie Clark Ianniciello, Publishing Power 30, Queressa Robinson, Reagan Arthur, Reese Witherspoon, Roberto Lovato, Saraciea J. Fennell, Tracy Sherrod, Whitney Peeling

Our annual list of the book business’s most influential gatekeepers

Louise Fitzhugh

Biography CREATORS NON-FICTION Writers

Spying on Louise Fitzhugh

January 28, 2021January 28, 2021 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Harriet The Spy, Judy Blume, Leslie Broady, Louise Fitzhugh, Nobody's Family Is Going To Change, Sometimes You Have To Lie, The Long Secret

A new biography casts light on the private life of the queer author of ‘Harriet The Spy’

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