This week’s fiction releases include books by Nell Zink, Colum McCann, and Harlan Coben. New nonfiction includes work from Graydon Carter, Amanda Knox, and W. G. Sebald. Also publishing this week are new books by Emily Carpenter, Ron Currie, India Hayford, and Oz Rodriguez and Claribel A. Ortega, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer sampler. 28 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-march-25 20 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-march-25 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the […]
Archives for March 2025
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Windham-Campbell Prize Winners
PEN America Awards Invite Criticism for a Second Year
PEN America released longlists for its annual awards on Friday, and at least two authors report that they have withdrawn their books from consideration. Kaveh Akbar and Brandon Shimoda, whose books were longlisted for the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, announced on social media that they were declining the nominations and referred readers to Writers Against the War on Gaza for more information. According to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, Shimoda’s book The Afterlife Is Letting Go did not appear when PEN posted the longlists, and as of press time Akbar’s Martyr! is still listed. WAWOG has criticized PEN America […]
French Bookstores Protest Hachette Livre
Independent bookstores in France are protesting the influence of Hachette Livre’s conservative owner Vincent Bolloré. Bolloré’s Vivendi bought control of Hachette parent company Lagardère in 2023. Bookstore owners say it’s impossible to boycott the publisher completely, since they are largest publisher and book distributor in the country. But the protest campaign has included cutting back on Hachette Livre titles, stocking them on lower shelves, and a “bookmark rebellion” in which people “hide bookmarks inside paperbacks in large commercial stores with messages such as ‘boycott Hachette.'” Le Pied à Terre, an independent bookshop in Paris, has started limiting orders of books from […]