March 6, 2026
ALA Workers Initiate Union DriveOn March 2, employees of the Chicago-based American Library Association announced plans to form ALA Workers United, joining AFSCME Council 31 in Illinois. more
‘Same Ingredients, Different Recipe’ in Proposed U.S. Book BanHouse Resolution 7661, introduced on February 24, would withhold federal funds from public classrooms and school libraries alleged to have “sexually oriented material” on their shelves. Right to read advocates interpret the bill as an effort to disparage and erase LGBTQ+ stories. more
ABA Condemns National Book Ban EffortThe American Booksellers Association is urging its members to contact their representatives about HR 7661, out of concern the bill will dissuade publishers from publishing LGBTQ+ books. more
PEN America, Publishers, Authors Join Together to Support Twin Cities StudentsPEN America is doubling down on its support for young people in the Twin Cities by co-hosting with Just Us Books and Penguin Random House a virtual event on March 10 that will feature live readings by a group of children’s authors from the 2018 anthology We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, published by Just Us Books. more
OverDrive Taps Digital Strategy Expert Marc DeBevoiseThe digital content provider—known for its library app Libby, school app Sora, and video app Kanopy—has found its next president in DeBevoise, who has held top roles at video platform Brightcove and online content network CBS Interactive. more
Steph Opitz Tapped to Head ConsortiumMost recently director of bookstore partnerships for Bookshop.org, Opitz has been named director of publishing services at Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, effective April 6. She succeeds Julie Schaper, who is retiring. more
Ann Godoff, Editor of Award-Winning Books and Bestsellers, Dies at 76The president and editor-in-chief of Penguin Press and former Random House publisher, who became one of publishing’s most accomplished editors over her 40-year career, died on February 24 from complications of bone cancer. Her authors included Ron Chernow, Michael Pollan, and Zadie Smith, and she most recently edited memoirs by Gisèle Pelicot and Gavin Newsom. more
Highlights of Next Week's Stars
Vilhelm’s Room Tove Ditlevsen, trans. from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (160p) ISBN 978-0-374-61349-5
Ignore All Previous Instructions Ada Hoffmann. Tachyon, $18.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-61696-456-6
The Redemption Center Is Closed on Sundays Andrea Hairston. Tor, $32.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-80731-1
Crime Fictions: How Racist Lies Built a System of Mass Wrongful Conviction Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve. Random House, $32 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-44708-6
Backtalker: An American Memoir Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw. Simon & Schuster, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-1-9821-8100-0
Children's Books
Spendin’ Time Gary R. Gray Jr., illus. by Rahele Jomepour Bell. HarperCollins, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-063-08998-3
New Books and More
Starred Reviews Releasing This WeekHere’s a handy roundup of all the books that received starred reviews in PW that are hitting shelves this week. More
Tanya Bush Has Found What She’s Hungry ForThe pastry chef embraces imperfection and plays with the boundaries of food writing in her hybrid cookbook-memoir Will This Make You Happy. more
Are You There, Judy?: PW Talks with Mark OppenheimerIn Judy Blume: A Life, the biographer traces the life of an author whose candid novels about puberty, divorce, and other topics revolutionized literature for young people. more
Will Self’s Savage WorldThe author faced down cancer to write his spectacular new novel, a cutting satire of modern culture. more
Karan Mahajan on the Stories of Women's Lives That Inspired His Latest NovelThe National Book Award finalist recommends some of the memoirs and novels he read in preparation for writing ‘The Complex,’ a domestic drama mixed with a story of immigration and Indian political upheaval. more
Blast from the Past: PW Talks with Ernesto CisnerosLongtime teacher and author Ernesto Cisneros spoke with PW about how watching his own parents age inspired his time-traveling middle grade novel, Queso, Just in Time. more
Author Naja Lund Aparico on Portraying Her Native Greenland as It Really IsGreenlandic Inuk author Naja Lund Aparico breaks down the enduring myths surrounding Greenland and discusses how she aims to offer more authentic representation through her new picture book, Seasons by the Lake, illustrated by Alex Nees. more
HarperCollins Celebrates a Century of Children’s PublishingAs the division marks its centennial, PW asked Rich Thomas, SVP and executive director of publishing, what distinguishes HarperCollins Children’s Books among the ranks of children’s publishers, and what lies ahead. more
PW JobZone: Latest Jobs
- Ingram Content Group is seeking a new Business Development Manager
- Kidsbooks Publishing is seeking a new Print Manager
- W.W. Norton & Company is seeking a new Media Marketing Manager, Norton Mental Health
Find out about these and other great jobs at Jobzone
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Theo of Golden
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Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic
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One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
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