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The Next Generation
Children’s Institute 2025 wrapped up over the weekend in Portland, Ore., with a keynote on the power of picture books from Mac Barnett, a panel of LGBTQ+ authors on the importance of queer stories, and, of course, a party. University of Wisconsin Press director Dennis Lloyd has been appointed to helm the Association of University Presses. The nominees for the second annual American Manga Awards, and the 2025 inductees into the Manga Hall of Fame, have been announced. The Beat has the latest on the “muddy slog” of Diamond Comic Distributors’ acquisition. Chinese police have arrested a number of women authors who write “boys’ love” novels and manhwa over their depictions of homosexuality, reports Australia’s ABC News. The New York Times considers how AI could change historical scholarship, and celebrates the centennial of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. A trove of newly discovered sketches by Roald Dahl will be sold at auction, per the BBC. Jason Reynolds talked with NPR about why children deserve books as complex as they are. Andrea Long Chu takes on Alison Bechdel’s latest graphic novel for Vulture. And Norma Swenson, a contributing author of Our Bodies, Ourselves, has died at 93.
The American Booksellers Association’s Children’s Institute 2025 took place in Portland, Ore., June 11–14, with keynotes from Samira Ahmed, Mac Barnett, Mychal Threets, and a panel of LGBTQ+ authors. more »
The University of Wisconsin Press director brings more than 30 years of experience spanning six presses to the role, previously held by Liverpool Press’s Anthony Cond. more »
Anime NYC and Japan Society have announced the 35 nominees for the second annual American Manga Awards, set to take place on August 21. The staff of San Francisco–based Studio Proteus were also named as the recipients of this year’s Manga Publishing Hall of Fame Award. more »
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Anna Michels and Jenna Jankowski at Sourcebooks imprint Poisoned Pen Press acquired North American rights, at auction, to 49 titles by self-published British crime fiction author L.J. Ross. The first title, Impostor, is slated for early 2026. more »
The author of We Have Never Been Woke brings a follow-up to Princeton University Press, a Black chef cooks up a book on Chinese American cuisine for AUWA, and more in this week’s book deals. more »
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere sits atop our hardcover fiction list. Plus Molly Jong-Fast’s staggering new memoir explains How to Lose Your Mother, and our children’s fiction list welcomes several new YA releases. more »
See what we published in this week’s print issue of Publishers Weekly, including our extensive ALA preview. more. »
The Merryl and James Tisch Director at the New York Public Library looks back on the impact of the Young Lions Fiction Award, now in its 25th year, which has served as an early career stepstone for such now-canonical authors as Teju Cole and Jesmyn Ward. more »
The late author’s long and prolific career was capped by a remarkable late-career run of four excellent books in the past five years. more »
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Job Moves
- Jocelynn Pedro has joined One World as assistant director of publicity.
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Bookstore News
- Spotlight on North Carolina Indie: Daughters Coffee & Books in South Durham, offers new and used books alongside a literary-themed cafe menu.
- A Literary Treasure Hunt in Oregon: Travel Portland has launched the “Golden Bookmark” treasure hunt, with handcrafted leather golden bookmarks hidden in independent bookstores across the city.
- New Indie Opens in Pennsylvania: Lost and Found Bookshop opened in Scranton this past weekend, just days after another bookstore, Friendly Alien Books, also opened in the area.
- Indiana Comics Shop Hit by Flood: Secret Headquarters, a comic book store in Evansville, had more than half of its inventory destroyed by a flash flood this past weekend.
- Russian Shop Fined for Anarchist Memoir: The manager of Podpisniye Izdaniya, a century-old bookshop in St. Petersburg, was fined for selling a copy of a jailed Belarusian anarchist’s memoir.
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Our Latest Starred ReviewsCheck out all the books to receive starred reviews in PW that are hitting bookstore shelves this week. more »
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid is the #1 title on PW’s adult hardcover fiction bestseller list. See the full list »
‘This Here Is Love’ by Princess Joy L. Perry“Perry debuts with a remarkable narrative of slavery, indentured servitude, and a Black landowner in colonial Virginia.... It’s a marvelous tale about the limits of freedom.” more »
An inside look at the bestselling author’s latest novel. more »
Picture of the Day
Rita Williams-Garcia (l.), author of One Crazy Summer (HarperCollins), and Alliah L. Agostini (r.), author of Scarecited on the First Day of School (FSG), attended the ICAP Arts’ Children of the Sun Literacy Series in Montclair, N.J., on June 6.
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