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Some fall books moved to 2022 due to paper shortages

Sep 03 2021: A recent report in The Washington Post warns, “book publishers, dogged by paper shortages and shipping delays, are pushing fall releases into early next year."

Ingram, a major book distributor, issued a statement noting that “the book industry, like all physical ...

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Obituary Note: Caroline Todd

Aug 31 2021: Caroline Todd, who wrote many bestselling series with her son Charles under the pen name Charles Todd, died on August 28.

Todd and her son published the first book in the Ian Rutledge series, A Test of Wills, in 1996. The book won the Barry Award from Deadly ...

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One of Hong Kong's last English language bookstores to close

Aug 30 2021: Bleak House Books, "one of Hong Kong's last independent English-language bookstores," will close October 15. The store, which sells new and used books, was founded in 2017 by Albert Wan and Jenny Smith.

Wan writes:

The decision to close the bookshop follows ...

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How Sally Rooney wrote again

Aug 28 2021: “Every day I wonder why my life has turned out this way,” a millionaire novelist named Alice writes to her friend Eileen in Beautiful World, Where Are You, out from Farrar, Straus & Giroux on Sept. 7. “I never advertised myself as a psychologically robust person, ...

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Famed San Francisco poet and activist Jack Hirschman dies

Aug 26 2021: Jack Hirschman, former San Francisco poet laureate, activist, and famed proponent of the Beat Generation, died at his home in the city on Sunday, said the organization in which he served as a co-founder and director. He was 87 years old.

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Afro Latinx children's books are still too rare

Aug 26 2021: Afro Latinx children's books are still too rare. These four authors are trying to change that.

Having grown up without picture books that reflected their own experiences, the Latinx authors and illustrators featured below are crafting and sharing those stories ...

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Oprah picks The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Aug 24 2021: Oprah announced today that her latest selection for Oprah’s Book Club—her 92nd—is The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, by poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. Though Jeffers has published five poetry collections, including The Age of Phillis, which won the 2020 NAACP Image Award ...

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Jill Murphy, children’s author and illustrator, dies aged 72

Aug 24 2021: Beloved children’s author and illustrator Jill Murphy has died at the age of 72. Murphy was best known for writing children’s book series The Worst Witch and The Large Family.

Murphy’s publisher Macmillan announced the author’s death in a statement, saying that she ...

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