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Clear filtersJudy Blume has pledged a multi-year donation to a Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators fund that supports independent bookstores hosting children’s literary events. The program, which began as a pilot in 2025, is set to expand and accept applications on September 1.
A new liquor-licensed bookstore and event space in Toronto’s Mirvish Village has quickly drawn a crowd, with literary fiction outperforming the romance and fantasy titles staff expected to dominate its social-media-savvy audience. The shop is positioning itself as both a neighborhood gathering place and a fresh venue for readings, talks and book-adjacent nightlife.
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San Francisco publisher McSweeney’s will begin a yearslong program this fall to reissue the late Stephen Dixon’s work, led by a new collection of short fiction and followed by two unreleased books. The project aims to widen access to one of American literature’s most singular and difficult-to-classify voices.
Bindery Books is expanding its creator-led publishing model with a new imprint from the horror and true crime podcast Last Podcast on the Left. Last Press on the Left will launch in fall 2027 with M.I. Minaeva’s debut novel, Saint’s Hotel, and will focus on fresh voices in horror, sci-fi, and dark fantasy.
Federal prosecutors are drawing on James Comey’s 2025 thriller FDR Drive as they try to keep a criminal case against the former FBI director alive. The move has prompted a sharp response from PEN America, which says using fiction in this way raises serious First Amendment concerns.
Fifteen years after the publication of The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach is returning to the same Midwestern college setting with a new novel, The Brightness. The book shifts the focus toward female friendship, campus politics, and the long shadow of his breakout success.
A new discussion of writing from India’s Northeast argues that these works are not a recent literary novelty but a major tradition shaped by conflict, migration, and regional identity. Far from fitting neatly into mainstream Indian Writing in English, the books interrogate the nation itself and the stories it tells about its own margins.
With reading-for-pleasure among kids ages nine and up at a record low, publishers are testing shorter page counts, more illustrations, and interactive features to win back reluctant readers. The shift is reshaping middle grade lists across imprints as editors look for formats that fit children’s busier, more screen-saturated lives.
About 1,500 booksellers are expected to attend this fall’s six regional bookseller association conferences, where programming will mix education, author events, and a heavy focus on discovering new titles. The gatherings also reflect a growing independent bookstore market, with several associations reporting sharp membership increases over the past year.
This year’s regional independent bookseller gatherings are leaning heavily on author programming, with keynote talks, panels, signings, and pitches that range from children’s literature to nonfiction and worldbuilding. The events also spotlight bookstore leadership, emerging voices, and new models for expanding access to books.
A Tender Age, Sunrise and A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving are among the titles drawing the strongest critical response this week, alongside nonfiction ranging from obituary writing to the politics of art and nutrition. The reviews point to a crowded week in which literary fiction, memoir and criticism all found enthusiastic readers among critics.
An excerpt from Alyssa Matesic and Patrick McDonald’s 2026 guide to querying agents offers a practical rulebook for follow-ups, from checking reply-rate data to waiting long enough before sending a reminder. The advice also distinguishes between email and QueryManager, and sets expectations for partial or full manuscript requests.
In a new conversation with Asymptote, translators Darryl Sterk and Kyle Shernuk discussed the challenges of rendering Syaman Rapongan’s Tao-inflected prose for English readers. Their remarks highlight not only the difficulty of carrying over rhythm, neologism, and oral tradition, but also the growing role of translation in introducing Indigenous Taiwanese writing to a wider audience.
A new English translation of Pedro Antonio de Alarcón’s *The Three-Cornered Hat* by Inés Bou, published by Espresso Publishing House in 2026, is drawing attention for the way it renews a nineteenth-century Andalusian novella built around seduction, authority, and comic reversal. A review in *Asymptote* argues that the work remains strikingly modern in its handling of desire, while also highlighting the translator’s role in preserving the text’s wordplay and narrative wit.
A new round of workshops, symposia, residencies, and prizes is opening across North America and Europe for translators and students of translation. The slate ranges from an eight-week online course on “treasonous” translation to awards for Persian and poetry translation, underscoring how translation is being supported as both a craft and a public literary practice.
A new anthology edited and contributed to by Salazar gathers 17 authors to explore how Latine music moves through family history, cultural inheritance and healing. The collection spans multiple styles, places and generations, highlighting Indigenous and Afro-Latine voices alongside writers connected to Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.
NAIBA’s second executive director officially began work on August 4 at the New Voices New Rooms conference, bringing a career that spans nonprofits, writing, production, and bookstore event programming. Hottel says her immediate task is to learn from booksellers and publishers while helping the regional association stay useful in a changing industry.
A wave of recent union wins at major and independent publishers is reshaping labor expectations across book publishing, where workers say low pay, heavy workloads, and rolled-back pandemic-era benefits have pushed them to organize. The summer’s victories suggest the industry may be entering a new phase of labor activism after decades of fragmented union presence.
Publishers announced a broad slate of acquisitions this week, led by Berkley’s buy of Danica Nava’s Bodice Ripper, an Indigenous reworking of western historical romance. The list also includes new entries from Patricia Cornwell, David Vann, Annalee Newitz, and others across fiction, memoir, and practical nonfiction.
The Mechanics’ Institute in San Francisco has acquired the Tarpey–Schwed LGBT Families Children’s Book Special Collection, a trove of more than 200 queer-friendly children’s books published from 1969 to 2023. According to Literary Hub, the archive offers a rare look at the changing history of queer representation in children’s publishing and is now searchable online.