This week’s fiction releases include books by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Kristen Arnett, and Stephen Graham Jones, plus Suzanne Collins’ new Hunger Games book, SUNRISE ON THE REAPING. New nonfiction includes work from John Green, Michael Lewis, and Senator Chuck Schumer (who announced he has cancelled his book tour “due to security concerns”). Also publishing this week are new books by Emma Donoghue, Josh Duboff, Jefferson Fisher, and Stuart Nadler, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer sampler. 27 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-march-18 18 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-march-18 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ […]
Archives for March 2025
Obituary: Jacques de Spoelberch
Agent Jacques de Spoelberch, 88, died on December 26, 2024 in Connecticut. Born in Belgium, de Spoelberch attended Princeton University and worked at Houghton Mifflin as an editor, where he published James Dickey’s Deliverance. He became a literary agent in 1971 and launched his own agency in 1975. According to a tribute from friend and writer Neil Kirk, de Spoelberch was signing new clients as recently as last fall. “He was a kind and gentle soul whose elegance and eloquence was only exceeded by his erudition,” Kirk writes.
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Executive Order Eliminates Agency That Supports Libraries
A new executive order issued Friday called for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the nation’s only federal agency for supporting libraries. The office of 75 workers administers grants to libraries throughout the US. The executive order reads: “the non-statutory components and functions of the following governmental entities shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law, and such entities shall reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law.” The IMLS had requested grant money of approximately $255 million for fiscal 2025, and […]
AAP Submits AI Recommendations to White House
The Association of American Publishers submitted recommendations regarding AI to the Trump administration, in response to a request for information while the White House develops an Artificial Intelligence Action Plan. The AAP’s letter states that the action plan should protect copyright and intellectual property, “embrace and encourage” licensing and partnership between companies, and reject tech companies’ call for “a bloated fair use defense and an unworkable ‘opt-out’ regime.” It also calls on the White House to use law enforcement to combat pirate sites and direct the DOJ and FTC to “use their unfair competition authority against companies that use and […]