1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (404+ words) When World Cup mania descended upon the U.S. in July, the Queens Public Library fanned team loyalties with watch parties and by promoting its global reading collections. QPL wanted its community to access books in world languages, and the tournament provided…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (585+ words) It takes a lot to frighten three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning horror author Sarah Langan. Putting a supernatural gloss on real-world issues is, she says, “the fun part” of writing horror. To her mind, it makes things less scary to…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (400+ words) Publishers Weekly This Week’s Bestsellers: July 27, 2026 Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by New York Times White House correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan debuted at the top of our charts four weeks ago. Sales dropped…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (157+ words) The authors, an ecologist and a theologist, sketch out a Christian framework for honoring creation by supporting local ecosystems and sustainability efforts. Drawing from a wide range of religious traditions, Crawford O’Brien, a religion professor at Pacific Lutheran University, outlines…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (222+ words) In this week's edition of Endnotes, we take a look at Téa Obreht's Sunrise, a novel about the enduring myths of the Wild West, set in a Wyoming ghost town. In its review, PW says "readers will have a blast....

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (194+ words) What were your takeaways from ALA Annual? Libraries are concerned about shrinking collections, increasing costs, and the waste in metered licenses that are not fully utilized. They’re subsidizing Big Five publishing, and the cost is not efficient. Hoopla advocates for…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (136+ words) The fantasist branches into mysteries with The Killing of a Chestnut Tree, in which a gay sleuth and his sidekick investigate the murder of a tree. What sparked the idea for this book? This is a wonderfully strange book with…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (362+ words) The Rolling Stone reporter’s Bad Boy for Life reveals shocking patterns of abuse in hip-hop mogul Sean Combs’s past. What led you to dig into Sean Combs’s backstory? I grew up with Combs during his Cîroc era. When the news…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (271+ words) Publishers Weekly Five Voice-Driven Novels That Inspired Amy Chozick’s New Literary Thriller Journalist Amy Chozick’s debut novel, With Friends Like You, follows Emily, a Manhattan mom who reunites with—and then obsesses over—her college roommate. I read…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (319+ words) Simon & Schuster UK and International has launched Simon Stream, a digital-focused fiction imprint aimed at self-published authors who want to make the switch to traditional publishing. The imprint will be headed up by S&S UK publishing director Victoria Pepe....