New figures from the Publishers Association show fiction and audiobooks did particularly well, with value of consumer sales up 7% on 2019 despite bookshop closures. Read more
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Looking For a Way to Mark Earth Day? Try These Movies, Songs, Books and More
When you come back inside after celebrating Earth with a walk or by planting some trees, check out these ways NPR’s Arts & Culture team has connected with our Mother Earth via the arts. Read more
Cuomo’s Pandemic Book Leads to an Investigation
The governor faces an investigation by the New York attorney general into whether he misused state resources to write his memoir “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic.” Read more
10 Essential Noir Novels
Willy Vlautin lists some of his favorite noir novels… Read more
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What Snoop Dogg’s Success Says About the Book Industry
Will the shifts brought on by the pandemic, favoring online retailers over bookstores and established authors over new ones, change publishing forever? Read more
In the Instagram age, you actually can judge a book by its cover
Last week’s big literary event was not the publication of a new book, the million-pound signing of a celebrity author or the announcement of a prestigious prize. Instead, it was the unveiling of a cover: the jacket of the forthcoming novel by Sally Rooney.
“It’s quite rare that a publisher will reveal a jacket and make such a big deal about who designed it, or even mention who designed it,” says Danny Arter, creative editor of The Bookseller, a magazine reporting on the publishing industry. But in recent years, book cover design has taken on a higher profile, and we may be seeing a new heyday for book design. Read more
