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Independents’ Day
This year’s Indie Bookstore Day was a rousing success for booksellers across the country, who celebrated with events, promotions, and giveaways that drew customers eager to support local businesses. Some 600 Hachette Book Group workers are moving to unionize with Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild-CWA Local 32035, having requested voluntary recognition from the publisher on Monday. Plus, the first-ever Children’s Booker Prize for fiction will be awarded early next year—and, in the meantime, is looking for young readers to serve as jurors. In other news, Utah has added two more titles to its statewide list of banned books, bringing the total to 34, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. Rebecca Yarros has announced her next book, a “castaway romance” set for this fall, via Today. For the Los Angeles Times, Maddie Connors argues that our shrinking attention spans are changing the way novels are written. In a Lit Hub excerpt from her new book Middlemen, Laura B. McGrath shines a light on the literary agent who invented the book auction. And Australian novelist David Malouf has died at 92.
Despite economic uncertainty, independent booksellers across the country saw sales soar this past weekend thanks to special events and promotions that have become bigger, more creative, and more elaborate. more »
Pending recognition from the publisher, the Hachette Workers Coalition, which has signed around 600 employees to join Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild-CWA Local 32035, would be the largest trade publishing union to date. more »
The Booker Prize Foundation has revealed further details regarding the 2027 prize for children’s fiction, the first of its kind from the U.K.-based organization behind the prestigious Booker Prize and International Booker Prize. more »
Plaintiffs in two complaints against Iowa Senate File 496, a bill that has enabled the removal of hundreds of K–12 library books in the state, have filed petitions for en banc hearings at the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. more »
Since launching in 2022, industry veteran Gretchen Young’s imprint at Post Hill Press has scored several bestsellers while also contributing funds to charity. more »
Abrams CEO Mary McAveney has appointed Frank Albanese (l.), most recently SVP of supply chain, as COO, and promoted Michael Sand to EVP. more »
As executive director of manufacturing, Iwano will build printer partnerships and drive per-unit cost performance. He joins the publisher from Hachette Book Group, where he led global manufacturing for its Union Square imprint. more »
Hachette Book Group and the American Civil Liberties Union are teaming to amplify HBG’s Raising Readers literacy campaign and the ACLU’s animated series Know Your Rights University. more »
The six-episode YouTube series, which premiered April 27, will host authors including Sandra Cisneros and Edgar Gomez to “share meals that reflect their heritage while discussing identity, family, and the experiences that shape their work.” more »
The author investigates the male ego in a thriller about a failing writer who beds his kids’ live-in nanny. more »
In The Savage Landscape (Viking, July), the journalist travels to remote places to demonstrate that the idea of untouched wilderness is a myth. more »
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Job Moves
- Sara Phoebe Miller has joined Inklore as editorial director.
- Katelyn Hemmeke has been promoted to senior editor at Inklore.
- Kiara Valdez has joined Inklore as editor.
- Lily Kessinger joined Inklore as editor.
- Ramiro Portnoy has been promoted to senior editor at Boom! Studios.
- Elizabeth Brei has been promoted to senior editor at Boom! Studios.
- Charlotte Peters has been promoted to associate editor at Dutton.
- Lisa Litwack has been promoted to executive director of art at Simon & Schuster.
- Omesha Edwards has been promoted to senior publicist at Simon & Schuster.
- Ingrid Carabulea has been promoted to senior marketing manager at Simon & Schuster.
Awards News
- 2026–2027 NYPL Cullman Fellows: The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers has announced this year’s 15 fellows, including Yaa Gyasi, Megha Majumdar, and Ross Perlin.
Bookstore News
- Texas’s Speakeasy Indie: Folklore Grove Bookstore, tucked behind a local sandwich shop, offers a secret literary hideaway in Arlington.
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The New Perimenopause by Mary Claire Haver is the #1 title on our adult hardcover nonfiction bestseller list. See the full list »
‘Aging Out: An Exploration of Caregiving, Community, and How Americans Grow Old’ by Lucy Schiller“Schiller, a nonfiction writing professor at Texas Tech, debuts with a moving examination of the complex reality of growing old in the U.S. ... It’s a deeply human portrayal of what it means to get older in a society unprepared to extend care to its most vulnerable.” more »
Picture of the Day
On April 23, folk musician and disabilities advocate Gaelynn Lea celebrated her new memoir, It Wasn’t Meant to Be Perfect (Algonquin), at Winnetka Chapel in Winnetka, Ill. The event featured a discussion between Lea and author Leigh Stein, as well as a book signing hosted by local bookshop The Book Stall. Posing at the signing table were (from l.) bookseller Elizabeth Hubbard, program specialist Susan Davis, Lea, Stein, events coordinator Christine Ferdinand, and bookseller Lexy Hochschild.
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