Volume 264
Issue 29
07/17/2017
Last Week’s Top Reviews
And the five most-read reviews on publishersweekly.com last week were...
Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven
From the Newsletters
Max Winter, author of the novel Exes, shares 10 old and tired writing rules you can and should break.
New children’s books are educating young readers about the global refugee crisis.
Betty Kelly Sargent’s latest “Ask the Editor” column looks at proper semicolon use.
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Podcasts
PW senior writer Andrew Albanese breaks down Yiannopoulos v. Simon & Schuster.
Calvin interviews legendary comics editor Francoise Mouly, in New York City, and her daughter, author Nadja Spiegelman, in Paris, about their collaboration publishing a second issue of Resist!, a free women-focused anthology of progressive comics, first organized in response to Donald Trump’s election in 2016.
Margaret Maron discusses her new and final mystery, Take Out. Then PW associate editor John Maher talks about the news around Milo Yiannopoulos’s Dangerous.
Blogs
Books that turn nonreaders into readers.
