Archive Dive
The late Muhammad Ali appeared in the pages of PW several times, perhaps most notably in our coverage of a press conference he gave at the 1975 American Booksellers Association meeting. There to promote his memoir, The Greatest, Ali reassured the assembled press that he’s the greatest fighter, not the greatest writer. “I didn’t write the book,” he said. “I just told them what to write.” Among those in attendance: his editor, Toni Morrison. Then there was the time he sent us a telegram correcting a story we’d run about his memoir, which he told us would be “the greatest book to come out in our history.”
From the Newsletters
Daniel Saldaña París, author of Among Strange Victims (Coffee House), picks 10 essential Spanish-language books.
Get ready for some midnight parties: we take a look at what bookstores are doing for the publication of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Scholastic/Levine).
Three religion publishers are reissuing books by and about Daniel Berrigan, the radical Jesuit priest who died this spring.
The Finnish Snow White trilogy, already sold in more than 50 territories, is coming to America.
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It’s been a very good month for Andrew Michael Hurley’s The Loney (HMH). For the fourth week in a row, it’s the most popular review on publishersweekly.com.
Blogs
Bookseller Kenny Brechner attempts to change the conversation about Amazon: it’s not about individual bookstores, it’s about a threat to local communities.
Podcasts
PW senior writer Andrew Albanese on whether “digital fatigue” is behind the slump in e-book sales, and whether libraries may be feeling that fatigue, too, as they prepare for the ALA Annual Conference in Orlando.
Interviews from the floor of Awesome Con in Washington, D.C., including one with Andrew Aydin, cowriter of Rep. John Lewis’s acclaimed graphic memoir, the March trilogy.
Amy Young talks about A Unicorn Named Sparkle (FSG), about a girl named Lucy whose dreams of a pet unicorn are thrown for a loop when the animal that shows up looks a bit... goatish.
Lara Naughton discusses her recovery from abduction and assault as well as the work she does to help others with similar experiences, as detailed in her memoir, The Jaguar Man (Central Recovery).
Author Michele Borba discusses her new book, Unselfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World (Touchstone).
