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I know, I feel the same. Reading is / should be a transgressive experience... read above your age range, for God's sake! :)

I really decry that idea of age appropriateness in libraries for any reason. I've now learned that if you read above the "appropriate" level you are considered "autistic." This idea that educators decide what is appropriate for children would...

Today’s Book News Wednesday, 26th November 2025 (London date) B&N and A24 partner on in‑store film‑themed shops Barnes & Noble announced a partnership with independent film company A24 to create A24‑branded shop sections and events within its...

Today’s Book News Tuesday, 25th November 2025 (London date) Lakeside Book Company buys B&T distribution arm Lakeside Book Company has acquired the distribution arm of Baker & Taylor Publisher Services, including a print‑on‑demand facility in...

Today’s Book News Monday, 24th November 2025 N.Y.C. Presses Come Together for the ‘Labor of Poetry’ Five New York City small presses—Belladonna* Collaborative, Futurepoem, Litmus Press, Winter Editions and World Poetry—formed Poetry Corp., an...

In the most recent Huddle (you should have been there…!) our doughty Huddlers took part in a live, creative challenge: to finish sentences first crafted by distinguished authors… and them we compared the human-produced results with those...

We’re playing Beat The Bot in today’s Huddle… Yes, it’s going to be a great game, but also… the future of writing itself may depend on… you…!

Today’s Book News Saturday, 22nd November 2025 (London date) This Week’s Bestsellers: November 24, 2025 James Islington’s epic fantasy follow‑up **The Strength of the Few** debuted at #1 on the hardcover fiction list after selling more than 30...

Yeah Go Irish. Where you can still submit wo an agent! But scholarly matters to me because my husband publishes. Horrified to learn some AH arguing for lowering standards of peer review to accommodate AI.

Yeah, I’m still adjusting the sites we crawl to get as full and useful representation of today’s important publishing news as we can, in one overview. I may have overdone it with scholarly publishing, quite a few of the news items aren’t really...

No, these are “film scouts” , not literary agents. Also, “streaming’ means the likes of Netflix, i.e. where there’s a production company involved.

Today’s Book News Friday, 21st November 2025 Reading Is Entertainment: PW Talks with Lissette Mendez Miami Book Fair director Lissette Mendez told *Publishers Weekly* that this year’s fair expected more than sixty thousand attendees and aimed...

He's dreaming. They're are too many different kinds of disabilities and unless he's disabled himself, he'd never understand that. It's almost offensive.

Today’s Book News Thursday, 20th November 2025 Politics Loom Large at 2025 National Book Awards At the 76th National Book Awards in New York, winners including fiction honoree Rabih Alameddine and nonfiction winner Omar El Akkad used their...