Last Week’s Most Popular Reviews
The most-read reviews on publishersweekly.com last week were...
#1 Who is Rich?
#2 The Village of Round and Square Houses
#3 What to Do About the Solomons
#4 Brave Deeds
#5 Matilda
From the Newsletters
David S. Brown, author of Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, names 10 things you probably didn’t know about the Great Gatsby author.
Talking with Sarah Dessen about her new novel, Once and for All.
How authors Lindsay Cummings and Sasha Alsberg landed a self-published serial space opera on the New York Times bestseller list.
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Podcasts
PW senior writer Andrew Albanese discusses how Milo Yiannopoulos’s decision to self-publish can illuminate both the self-publishing and traditional publishing markets.
A recap of BookExpo 2017 and the increased comics presence at the show, plus a discussion of the reactions to the Wonder Woman film and to incidents of transphobic behavior in the comics community.
Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat talks about After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back up Again), which explores anxiety and fear in the aftermath of the nursery rhyme character’s infamous tumble.
Matthew DeBord discusses his new book, Return to Glory: The Story of Ford’s Revival and Victory in the Toughest Race in the World. And PW editorial director Jim Milliot hits the highlights of BookExpo and BookCon.
Blogs
The scoop on the Book Bingo summer reading program at Vermont’s Flying Pig Bookstore.