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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Harper’s Magazine Letter Cancels Cancel Culture

July 7, 2020July 7, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Bari Weiss, David Brooks, Harper's, J.K. Rowling, Josh Gondelman, Malcolm Gladwell, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky

150 authors and academics, including J.K. Rowling, sign the open letter

NON-FICTION Politics

Four More Books About Donald Trump

June 30, 2020July 1, 2020 Michael Giltz 0 Comments David Frum, David Shimer, Donald Trump, John Bolton, Masha Gessen, Rigged, Trumpocalypse

Why not 40? Or 400?

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Critical Mess: The NBCC Implosion

June 23, 2020June 26, 2020 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Carlin Romano, Hope Wabuke, Ismail Muhammad, NBCC

The National Book Critics’ Circle’s old-guard members refuse to roll with the times

AUTHOR STUFF FICTION NON-FICTION Politics

Literary Agent Gets Cancelled, Fires Her Whole Staff

June 4, 2020June 10, 2020 Katie Smith 19 Comments

Marisa Corvisiero didn’t want them “caught in the crossfire.”

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“Now Is The Time”

June 1, 2020June 3, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments All American Boys, Black Lives Matter, Brendan Kiely, Jason Reynolds

In online conversation, authors of ‘All American Boys’ plead for white families to join the conversation on race

FILM Politics

COVID-19 Has Already Changed Moviegoing

May 6, 2020May 11, 2020 Jake Harris 0 Comments AMC Theaters, Christopher Nolan, Evo, Santikos, Trolls World Tour, Universal Pictures

Theater chains are paying the Troll Toll, and trying to figure out what’s next

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New Twitter Account Calls Out the Publishing Industry

April 27, 2020April 29, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments @PublishrsWeakly, Publishers Weekly

The cheekily named @PublishrsWeakly continues the conversation started by ‘American Dirt’

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Writers Accuse Internet Archive of Theft

April 1, 2020April 3, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Alan Brennert, American Dirt, Chuck Wendig, Internet Archive, Margaret Owen, National Emergency Library, Neil Gaiman, NPR

The National Emergency Library allows unfettered access to more than one million free ebooks

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The Woman Who Published Woody Allen’s New Memoir

March 24, 2020April 10, 2020 Neal Pollack 6 Comments Apropos Of Nothing, Arcade Publishing, Jeanette Seaver, Woody Allen

An interview with Jeanette Seaver of Arcade Publishing

FICTION NON-FICTION Politics Young Adult

The New Censorship

March 10, 2020March 13, 2020 Neal Pollack 3 Comments A Place for Wolves, Amélie Wen Zhao, American Dirt, Banned Books Week, Barnes and Noble, Blood Heir, Censorship, Hachette, Kate Elizabeth Russell, Kosoko Jackson, Milo Yiannopoulos, My Dark Vanessa, Ronan Farrow, Roxane Gay, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Woody Allen

Book bans are suddenly coming from inside the house

NON-FICTION Politics

Hachette Cancels Woody Allen

March 9, 2020March 11, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Apropos Of Nothing, Catch and Kill, Hachette, Ronan Farrow, Stephen King, Woody Allen

The decision to pull his memoir comes on the heels of Friday’s employee walk-out

Business NON-FICTION Politics

Paul Krugman and the Prophets of Doom

March 2, 2020March 11, 2020 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Arguing With Zombies, Daniel Susskind, Nicholas Kristoff, Paul Krugman, Sheryl WuDunn, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

Three new books wrestle with our most vexing economic questions

FILM Politics

‘Gone With the Wind’ and ‘Parasite’ are Both Good Movies

February 21, 2020February 24, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Citizen Kane, Donald Trump, Gone With The Wind, Parasite, Sunset Boulevard

It’s OK to love the classics despite their flaws

FICTION Politics

Barnes and Noble Did Nothing Wrong

February 12, 2020February 18, 2020 Neal Pollack 2 Comments American Dirt, Barnes and Noble, Barnes and Noble Diversity Edition, David Bowles, Doug Melville, Hurston Wright Foundation, Moby Dick, Penguin Random House, Romeo and Juliet, Sofia Quintero

How a dopey “diversity initiative” ignited another round of book-banning

NON-FICTION Politics

Keep Your Eye on the Farrow

November 4, 2019November 5, 2019 Raymond Cummings 0 Comments Asia Argento, Catch and Kill, Harvey Weinstein, Hillary Clinton, Jon Lovett, Matt Lauer, Mina Sorvino, Ronan Farrow, Rose McGowan

Ronan the Accuser: ‘Catch and Kill’ is a Terrifying, Paranoid Study in Power

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