This is a continuation of my series “This Month in Book News,” a new iteration of the “This Week in Book News” segment I previously wrote for my Facebook business page. Post-publication, I combined previous posts into this one and retitled this page.

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Highlights from my August book news round-up include:

*Publishing’s “trial of the century” *Why, as the New Yorker says, it’s time for Rushdie to receive the Nobel Prize *The new novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah, the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize *August’s literary losses (sadly, several) and page-to-screen releases (some based on short stories) *And for fun: a list of homes lived in or imagined by famous authors that are currently on the market

Happy Labor Day weekend!

(Featured photo taken from Publishers Weekly)

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My July round-up of book news includes:

*The books that made the longlist for the 2022 Booker Prize

*The latest on another potential “Big Five” publishing merger

*July’s novel-to-film releases (one is being called a “swampy Twilight”)

*A Gone Girl-themed cruise along the Danube (pitched as a “killer opportunity”)

*A brief history of “Paperback Book Day”

and more!

(Image from Literary Hub)

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Highlights from my June round-up of book news include:

*The winner of a major book award and the end of another

*The newly discovered novel by a French author that’s creating a stir

*A list of books that have gone viral on TikTok and are being turned into films

*The picture book that’s been out for 50 years and has been made into a musical and a movie

*Broadway’s previews of “The Kite Runner” and BAM’s stage production of “A Little Life”

Happy Birthday, America, and happy long weekend to all!

(Image from the Women’s Prize for Fiction website)

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In my May round-up of book news you’ll find:

*The winners of the Pulitzer Prize and International Booker Award

*Margaret Atwood’s unique response to book bans

*The book about 1960s France that’s been adapted into the year’s “timeliest movie”

*The legacy of GONE GIRL over the psychological thriller market

*Amanda Gorman’s heartbreaking and hopeful new poem

and much more

(Image from the Booker Prizes website)

 This is a continuation of my series “This Month in Book News,” a new iteration of the “This Week in Book News” segment I previously wrote for my Facebook business page. Post-publication, I combined previous posts into this one and retitled this page.

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My April round-up of book news includes:

*The winners of the LA Times Book Prize and the Edgar Awards

*The 70 books chosen to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee

*Book bannings and cancellations

*The novel that became a movie, then a stage play, and is now an opera

*The books that have turned 10, 15, 20, 100 & 120 (hint about this last stat is the image for this post!)

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Some of the book news that made headlines in March:

*The shuttering of all 68 of Amazon’s physical stores

*How Ukrainians are using books to fight back

*The winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards

*The questions raised by Jack Kerouac’s centenary

*The seven Academy Award Best Picture nominations that are adaptations of books, short stories, musicals or films

(Image from Literary Hub)

This is the beginning of my series “This Month in Book News,” a new iteration of the “This Week in Book News” segment I previously wrote for my Facebook business page.

February news:

*The finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes

*Addressing racism in “Death on the Nile,” based on Agatha Christie’s book of the same name

*The “bitter row” over Rosemary Sullivan’s THE BETRAYAL OF ANNE FRANK

*The centennial of the publication of James Joyce’s ULYSSES

*Poems by Ukrainian writers Iya Kiva and Ilya Kaminsky

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See second part of post for January news!