The Tuesday Agency, an Iowa City-based speakers agency for authors, has closed. President Trinity Ray tells PL that the agency accepted government loans during the pandemic, which helped to keep the business going and to pay staff, but changes to rules around repayment, as well as other financial factors, made it impossible for the company to continue. He says, “We were keeping up until this second Trump administration. Changes to rules around government loan repayments, the decimation of the National Endowment for the Arts and attacks on universities have made it impossible for us to continue on in the same […]
Jan Saenz’s 200 MONAS: Authors and Editors Conversation #5 from Our Buzz Books Spring/Summer 2026 Fiction Panel
Today we bring you the fifth Authors and Editors conversation from our recent fiction panel with debut author Jan Saenz and her Little, Brown editor Gabriella Mongelli for 200 MONAS, publishing March 3. #BuzzBooksOfficial
Appropriations Bills Pass With Library Funding
After dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, which was later reinstated by a federal court, President Trump signed appropriations bills this month that increase funding for libraries, American Libraries magazine reports. The legislation allocates $212.5 million—a $1.4 million increase—for “library programs run by IMLS through the Library Services and Technology Act,” according to the ALA. Though funding for the IMLS itself decreased slightly, due to the reduction in staffing there. Funding for the Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) program, which is run predominantly through school libraries, was flat at $30 million. The office that administers the program was […]
Emma Straub’s AMERICAN FANTASY: Authors and Editors Conversation #4 from Our Buzz Books Spring/Summer 2026 Fiction Panel
Today we bring you the fourth Authors and Editors conversation from our recent fiction panel with the bestselling Emma Straub and her Riverhead editor Sarah McGrath for AMERICAN FANTASY, publishing April 7. #BuzzBooksOfficial
Forthcoming: Gladwell, Adeyemi, Donaldson
On September 29, Little, Brown will publish THE AMERICAN WAY OF KILLING by Malcolm Gladwell, which “gets to the heart of America’s gun violence crisis: Where did America’s violence problem come from? And why has it proven so difficult to address?” The book is an expansion of reporting Gladwell did for his podcast, Revisionist History. The audiobook will be published by RB Media and produced by Pushkin Industries. Also on September 29, Holt Children’s will publish Tomi Adeyemi‘s next YA novel, THE SIREN, a standalone dark academia. Separately, Julia Donaldson announced the title of the third book in her Gruffalo […]