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Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling". With 51 issues a year, the emphasis today is on book reviews. Source
On May 19, publishing professionals gathered for a can-did and informative webinar, “AI and its Opportunities in Publishing Operations.” The webinar was the latest in a semi-annual series sponsored by Westchester Publishing Services, an editorial, production, and digital conversion services organization. Nicole Tomassi, marketing and conference manager for the company, introduced the panel, which was moderated by Jim Milliot, editor-at-large at Publishers Weekly.
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... With Rex Ogle looking ahead to the fall release of his middle grade novel Absent (Norton Young Readers, Sept. 1), about three boys who skip school for different reasons, PW spoke to the award winning author about shame, coming-of-age, and why teachers and librarians know more about kids than almost anyone else. Other than drawing from your own past, how did you create authentic portrayals of absenteeism for today’s students?
Chicagoland is going to feel like the center of the book universe the last week in June. While 15,000 librarians gather inside Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center for the American Library Association’s annual conference, more than 600 booksellers and industry professionals will convene Friday, June 26, to Monday, June 29, in nearby Schaumburg for Children’s Institute 2026.
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... In this week's edition of Endnotes, we take a look at Colson Whitehead's Cool Machine, the transcendent and wildly entertaining conclusion of his Harlem Trilogy. In its review, PW calls it "the greatest New York novel in years." Here's how the book came together: Colson Whitehead Author “Cool Machine is the final book in the Harlem trilogy, and I was morbidly obsessed with sticking the landing.
In 2022, as the United States contended with the Covid pandemic, civil unrest, and political divisions, Emily St. John Mandel started to worry about the state of the union—and wondered if it would survive the turmoil. That spring, she sat down to write her new novel, Exit Party, her most ambitious book to date.
A hormone and neurotransmitter may seem an unlikely source of design inspiration, but the shift in recent years away from neutral hues and toward vibrant interiors has a scientific-sounding name: dopamine decor. When PW asked editors about the trend, which favors self-expression and whimsy over monotone palettes and rigid design guidelines, many pointed to the online popularity of “dopamine dressing,” or wearing colors and textures that boost happiness.
It’s hard to deny that these are particularly messy times. In surveying the season’s hobbyist titles, PW noted two books that offer positive outlets for the collective feeling of disarray. Emily Wall’s All Panic No Disco: Existential Crisis Embroidery for Your Inner Critter (Aug.) is intended for “the average person in today’s world who looks around and can’t help but notice the chaos out there,” says Andrews McMeel associate editor Katie Gould.
The Chicago metro area might as well be called Bookstoreland: there are approximately 90 indies there, about half of them within the city limits. As Larry Law, executive director of the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association, who lives in the area, puts it, “There’s enough room here for this many bookstores; ‘A rising tide lifts all boats’ definitely applies. Everybody has found their own groove.
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Charmed Kelsey Armstrong. Quadrille, Aug. Armstrong, who hosts crafting workshops at Haricot Vert, her accessories store in Brooklyn, writes that a charm is “anything that can hang, attach, or be given meaning—whether store-bought, handmade, found, broken, or repurposed.” She shows readers how to turn buttons, beads, plastic animal figurines, and game pieces—just for starters—into wearable or hangable charms.
This year is not only the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Book of the Month Club—it also marks a decade since chairman John Lippman relaunched the iconic service and rebranded it Book of the Month. When Lippman, whose background is in finance and music, acquired BOTM in late 2012 from parent company Bookspan, it was being buffeted by both the rise of online bookselling and the explosion of e-books.