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The Best Books of Fall 2023

An eclectic list featuring the season’s most compelling new novels, nonfiction, and poetry, as curated by The Walrus

The Walrus

7 fantasy books to get kids into reading if they just ‘don’t like it’

These magical stories could get your kids hooked on books this International Literacy Day. By Imy Brighty-Potts.

The Independent UK

The sale of publisher Simon & Schuster is good news for staff and authors, but the long-term implications are uncertain

A year after the US Department of Justice blocked the merger of two of the world’s biggest publishers, a New York-based private equity investment firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Co., has agreed to buy Simon Schuster.

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Can't wait for 'Dune Part 2'? Let your creativity flow with this official 'Dune' coloring book

Penguin Random House is releasing "The Official Dune Coloring Book" in September 2023.

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As a writer slowly loses his sight, he embraces other kinds of perception

Andrew Leland started losing his sight 20 years ago. He's now legally blind, although he still has a narrow field of vision, which allows him to see about 6% of what a fully-sighted person sees.

WEKU

Paramount sells Simon & Schuster to private investment firm

Paramount Global has sold Simon & Schuster to the private equity firm KKR. The deal comes nearly a year after the Department of Justice blocked Penguin Random House from acquiring Simon & Schuster.

WEKU

Simon & Schuster purchased by private equity firm KKR for $1.62 billion

Simon & Schuster has been sold to the private equity firm KKR, months after a federal judge blocked its purchase by rival publisher Penguin Random House because of concerns that competition would shrink in the book market

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TikTok Is Becoming a Publisher. Will It Ruin the Book Industry?

BookTok is beloved as a guerrilla democratizing force, but the platform’s pivot risks killing the thing that makes it great

The Walrus

Why L'Oréal CHRO struggled to return to the office as a parent

L'Oréal’s CHRO reflects on the challenges of returning to the office as a parent.

Fortune

'Does not exist': Contentious CCTV from night of alleged Higgins rape 'overridden'

Certain security video from Parliament House was 'not quarantined in any way'.

The Canberra Times

The indie publishing mavericks shaking up the UK books world

Last year, all of literature’s big prizes went to small publishers. In a risk‑averse climate, edgy debuts and ‘tricky-to-sell’ foreign titles have found a home at the likes of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Sort Of Books

The Guardian - UK

Justice Sotomayor's staff urged schools and libraries to buy her memoir or kid's books

The works have earned Sotomayor $3.7 million since she joined the court in 2009. Her taxpayer-funded staffers have been deeply involved in organizing speaking engagements intended to sell the books.

WEKU

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor's staff prodded colleges and libraries to buy her books

For colleges and libraries seeking a big name for a guest lecturer, few come bigger than Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court justice who rose from poverty in the Bronx to the nation’s highest court

The Independent UK

Cormac McCarthy, ‘No Country for Old Men’ author, dies at 89

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian” and “All the Pretty Horses.”

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No Country For Old Men author Cormac McCarthy dies aged 89

McCarthy, known for his novels including The Road and No Country For Old Men, died of natural causes.

The Conversation

Summer reading: 5 books that explore LGBTQ teen and young adult life

In recognition of LGBT Pride Month, The Conversation reached out to Jonathan Alexander – an English professor with a scholarly interest in the interplay between sexuality and literature – for recommendations of young adult fiction books that feature LGBTQ characters. What follows is a list that Alexander, who has just…

Fortune

The world’s largest publisher doesn’t look at CVs when hiring

Penguin Random House employs over 10,000 people across 20 countries—and anyone hired in the last six years was asked to complete a skills-based test.

Los Angeles Times

Amanda Gorman on her inauguration poem being banned from Miami school: 'I am gutted'

Bob Graham Education Center, a K-8 school in Miami-Dade County, restricted access to Amanda Gorman's acclaimed poem "The Hill We Climb," which she read at President Biden's inauguration, for elementary-aged students after a parent issued a formal complaint on the grounds that the poem was "not educational" and included indirect…

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Penguin Random House, PEN America, authors and parents sue Florida county for removing books on race and LGBTQ themes

A new lawsuit against a Florida school board marks a “first-of-its-kind challenge to unlawful censorship”.

WEKU

Penguin Random House and 5 authors are suing a Florida school board over book bans

Officials in Escambia County, Fla., removed 10 books from school libraries and restricted access to more than 150 others. Writers' advocacy group PEN America calls the lawsuit the first of its kind.

Salon

Parents sue Fla. district for book ban

The banning of books by the school district violates parents’ and authors’ First Amendment rights, lawsuit argues

The Independent UK

Penguin Random House sues Florida school district over ‘unconstitutional’ book bans

Federal lawsuit condemns ‘ideologically driven campaign to push certain ideas out of schools’

The Independent UK

Penguin Random House sues Florida school district over book bans

Publisher Penguin Random House and PEN America have sued a Florida school district over its removal of books about race and LGBTQ+ identities

The Times of India

Gabriel García Márquez's unpublished novel to be released in 2024

Roughly ten years after Nobel winner Gabriel García Márquez's death in 2014, news is that his last unfinished novel will be published posthumously in 2024, confirmed publisher Penguin Random House recently.

WEKU

An unpublished novel by Gabriel García Márquez is set for release next year

Arriving 10 years after the author's death, the roughly 150-page novel will contain five sections centered around a character named Ana Magdalena Bach.

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