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Kate McKinnon to Host 2024 National Book Awards
The actor, comedian, and author will preside over the November 20 ceremony, held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. McKinnon will be joined by Grammy Award winner Jon Batiste, who will be featured as the event's first-ever live musical guest.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: Are We Publishing the Right Stories for Kids?
PW talks with Lawrence Schimel, host of Frankfurt’s second annual children’s publishing conference.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: Program Highlights
The main event of the global book publishing calendar is upon us, and this year’s professional program will feature a strong slate of panels and conversations about such issues as AI, the booming international audiobook market, and more.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: Where the World Comes Together
The 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair will feature one of its most expansive and diverse programs yet.
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International Publishers Call on Frankfurt to Cut Ties with Israel
Publishers for Palestine, a coalition of more than 500 publishers in 50 countries, issued an open letter demanding that organizers of the Frankfurt Book Fair, slated for October 16-20, "refuse collaboration with complicit Israel book publishers."
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Asian American Bookcon Makes Its Debut in Brooklyn
The inaugural Asian American Bookcon, to be held on September 27, will bring together three dozen authors for a day of presentations, signings, and a party.
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Aspen Institute Teams with Book of the Month to Launch Literary Festival
The inaugural Aspen Literary Festival, slated for September 2025, will feature more than 40 authors in a multi-day celebration of books.
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NYCC 2024 Preview: A Transitional Year for the Con
New York’s big comics event is adding more industry programming—and fewer comics publishers than ever are attending.
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NYCC 2024 Preview: Program Highlights
New York Comic Con offers a wide-ranging slate of panels and other programming for fans and industry professionals alike. This year’s event will feature discussions of book banning, trends in the romance and speculative fiction spaces (including, of course, the booming romantasy subcategory), and more.
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International Audiobook Publishers See More Growth Ahead
The inaugural International Summit of Audio Publishers held September 10 in New York City drew 137 participants who discussed current market conditions, the impact of AI, and what is coming next for the booming industry.
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The Harlem Book Fair Returns After Nearly Calling It Quits
The renewed community event returns on September 7 under the theme, “Literary rɛvəˈluʃən (revolution).”
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American Short Fiction Announces Fall 2024 ‘MFA for All’ Program
American Short Fiction, a nonprofit literary organization based in Austin, Tex., has announced its fall 2024 "MFA for All" program. The series will feature three accomplished authors as faculty: Jamel Brinkley, Susan Choi, and Karen Russell.
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Fall Regionals 2024: Programming Highlights
This year’s fall gatherings provide booksellers across the country with plenty of opportunities to meet authors, collect ARCs, and network with other booksellers as well as publishers.
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Fall Regionals 2024: Fall Forward for Regionals Season
Bookselling’s regional associations put the finishing touches on their 2024 trade shows.
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Fall Regionals 2024: Booksellers Buzz About Fall Titles
With summer on the wane and holiday titles on order, excitement around this fall’s fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books is building. PW talked with booksellers about what they’ll be handselling and displaying in the coming months.
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Fall Regionals 2024: Booksellers Reach Across Regional Divides
For some regional bookseller associations, joint trade shows are a winning formula.
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Fall Regionals 2024: Bookselling in an Election Year
Although the 2024 election season won’t shift into high gear until after Labor Day, booksellers across the country are making plans for what Lissa Muscatine, describes as a “dramatic and historic” presidential campaign.
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In Glasgow, Worldcon Worked to Put Hugos Controversy Behind It
This year's World Science Fiction Convention, held in Scotland's largest city August 8–12, hoped to put a year and change of controversy in the rearview mirror. To publishers’ minds, those hopes were met.
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NVNR Draws Large Turnout as Trade Show Season Kicks Off
New Voices New Rooms, the collaboration between the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association and the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, kicked off the fall trade show season with an energetic and productive conference that drew 250 booksellers and 137 exhibitors to northern Virginia.
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San Diego Comic-Con 2024: Amid Industry Changes, the Con Lights Up the Skies
This year's show, held July 24–28, saw Marvel flexing its massive budget with a drone show and other spectacles—even as attendees and exhibitors alike expressed concerns over the cost of doing business at the Con.