In a typically hyperbolic filing, Donald Trump sued author Bob Woodward and publisher Simon & Schuster in a Pensacola, FL Federal Court on Monday, alleging that audiobook THE TRUMP TAPES: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump was published without Trump’s permission and infringes his rights. The suit argues that when Trump agreed to […]
HarperCollins to Cut Five Percent of North American Employees
HarperCollins ceo Brian Murray announced in an internal memo that the company will implement both job reductions and cost cutting between now and the middle of the calendar year (which is when Harper’s fiscal year ends). A spokesperson confirmed that, “In addition to implementing a variety of cost-saving measures, we will be reducing our workforce […]
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Forthcoming: Jesmyn Ward’s Let Us Descend
Scribner will publish two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s next novel, LET US DESCEND, on October 3. In an announcement, the publisher described the book as, “the astonishing story of Annis, an enslaved teenage girl who is sold by her white father after being separated from her mother. Annis is walked from a rice plantation […]
Luqman-Dawson Wins Newbery, Salati Wins Caldecott
The American Library Association presented the 2023 Youth Media Awards at the LibLearnX conference in New Orleans.