In the 1980s more writers were able to earn a living from writing – though those writers were, of course, largely male and, broadly speaking, of privileged background. But as a rule the number of pounds I receive in 2022 is about the same as if I’d written the piece in 1996. - New Statesman
The rub for many is that the phrase sounds wishy-washy, as if there is an epidemic of hedging amid a new generation. Some have suggested that discussions in meetings might be less productive or that we risk undermining our own arguments by using the phrase. - The New York Times
On March 1, Toby Price, assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in the Jackson suburbs, found himself having to sub at a virtual reading, and he figured seven-year-olds would get a kick out of the widely-available cartoon book. They did, but culture-warrior adults did not. - MSN (The Washington Post)
Prompted by, among others, Diane Keating reading from Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem and Julie Harris reading Stuart Little (after which E.B. White recorded all his books himself), Mimi Kramer pinpoints the problem and its causes. - Vulture
This "post-book blues" thing is a side-effect that doesn't seem to get mentioned much, if at all. It's not an in-person relationship as such, but it is one forged in a unique, unwritten contract with the reader or listener. - BBC
This accelerating erosion has not been big news during a time of pandemic, war and actual erosion, and yet the absence of magazines authoritatively documenting such events, or distracting from them, as they used to do with measured regularity, is keenly felt. - The New York Times
When you visit the Amazon app, you can still buy physical books, but digital purchases now show a "Why can't I buy on the app?" link instead of a purchase button. - Ars Technica
While authors can be colorful, book dealers are often notably cranky and eccentric. One conducting business in fashionable Cecil Court put up a sign that read, “Do not mistake courtesy on my part as an invitation to stay all day.” - Washington Post
Fiction: The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen. History: Covered With Night by Nicole Eustace and Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer. Biography: Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred Rembert. Poetry: frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss. General nonfiction: Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott. - The New York Times
The trade group the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America "started a diversity initiative in 2020 to 'encourage and promote the participation of L.G.B.T.Q.+, BIPOC, and underrepresented groups,'" but some Millennials and Gen Zers had started on their own. - The New York Times
"Mary Rambaran-Olm, a literary scholar who focuses on race and early medieval England, accused editors at The Los Angeles Review of Books of 'torpedoing' a strongly negative review ... because of their friendship with the fellow white scholars" who wrote the book she reviewed. - The New York Times
The Rapid City district has decided to destroy books by Eggers, Bechdel, Booker Prize-winning Bernadine Evaristo, Imbolo Mbue, and Stephen Chbosky. Why? Authors and topics are kinda, uh, gay, and the school board is homophobic. Eggers will replace them all. - The Guardian (UK)
Penguin Random House has partnered with a raft of advocacy organizations on a public campaign called "Open Books Open Doors", while the Authors Guild has launched a Banned Books Club on the app Fable, on which users organize social media book groups. - Publishing Perspectives
