Just one week after the publication date for Milo Yiannopoulos’s DANGEROUS was pushed back from March 14 to June 13 at the author’s request (while he appeared to admit he had yet to “submit the manuscript”), Simon & Schuster cancelled publication of the book. The company’s statement, issued Monday afternoon, reads in full: “After careful consideration, Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint have cancelled publication of Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos.” That decision came after the revelation over the weekend of comments from January 2016 in which Milo appeared to approve of men having sex with underage boys. Simon & Schuster’s announcement […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Forthcoming: Gaiman Sequel to Neverwhere; Millenium Novel Gets a Title
Twenty years after the publication of Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman has announced he is working on a sequel. Gaiman told the audience at an event in London that he is “a solid three chapters” into the project, titled THE SEVEN SISTERS. The Guardian reports that “Gaiman said that he had been prompted to write the sequel both by the changes in the world over the past 20 years and his work with the UN refugee agency.” The original book follows tribes of homeless people as they navigate a fantastical city called London Below. Of his inspiration to write the new book, Gaiman said, […]
Briefs: Finally, A Paperback Edition for All The Light We Cannot See; ALA’s Book Club Central; and More
Just under 3 years after it was first published in hardcover, Scribner will release Anthony Doerr‘s All the Light We Cannot See in trade paperback, on April 4. The book has “more than 4 million copies in circulation across all formats in North America.” (Though it is worth nothing that Simon & Schuster Canada published a paperback edition in November 2014.) Doerr will tour for the paperback release, including visits to Phoenix, San Francisco, Albuquerque, Austin, Kansas City, Chicago, Portsmouth, N.H., Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Raleigh. Announcements The American Library Association a set of online resources called Book Club Central and has enlisted actor […]
New Philip Pullman Book of Dust Trilogy Begins In October
The first installment of Philip Pullman’s THE BOOK OF DUST trilogy was announced for publication on October 19 in the US and UK by Penguin Random House. Knopf Children’s announced a first printing of 500,000 copies, and David Fickling Books and Penguin Random House UK Children’s will publishing in the UK. Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is reported to have sold over 17.5 million copies worldwide. THE BOOK OF DUST is set ten years before The Golden Compass and “centers on the much-beloved Lyra Belacqua. Alethiometers, daemons, and the Magisterium return to play their part, and Pullman also introduces a host of new […]
Milo’s DANGEROUS Is Officially Delayed to June 13
On Monday afternoon, controversial author Milo Yiannopoulos announced on Facebook that his book DANGEROUS, originally scheduled for publication on March 14, has been postponed to June 13. He writes, “I asked my publisher for more time to submit the manuscript for DANGEROUS so I could include material about the craziness and rioting at UC Berkeley, UC Davis and UW Seattle. It would be absurd for me to publish a book without some discussion of the insanity of the last few weeks.” The tell here is that a month before publication, when the book should be in (or finished with) production, […]
New Elizabeth Warren Book for April
Metropolitan Books will release a new book by Senator Elizabeth Warren on April 18, THIS FIGHT IS OUR FIGHT: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class. In her “forthright, inspiring voice,” Warren offers “a rousing call to action and an outline for reclaiming our government so that it is less beholden to the rich and powerful and better serves people who work hard every day but now face such an uncertain future.” She says in the announcement, “Washington works great for the rich and powerful who can hire armies of lawyers and lobbyists, but it is not working very well […]