From the Newsletters
Maeve Higgins, author of Maeve in America, picks some of her favorite funny essay collections.
A three-million-copy first printing has been announced for the new Dog Man book from Dav Pilkey.
A prolific author discusses taking control of her career by going indie.
Podcasts
PW senior writer Andrew Albanese talks about the superhero on his way to save the publishing industry this fall: Dog Man!
MTC shares a recording of PW’s “Crowdfunding: Ethics and Evolution” panel at San Diego Comic-Com, organized by Heidi MacDonald, which takes a look at successful crowdfunding campaigns as well as the legal issues and complaints sparked by some.
Blogs
A group of teen poets from Burlington, Vt., known as Muslim Girls Making Change, or MGMC, are making a national name for themselves.
Ilyasah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, describes how she turned her father’s childhood years into X: A Novel.