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The entries are composed with a knowing wit. Some are twisty and loquacious, others witheringly economic. They’re structured like jokes, and there’s a light, nerdy thrill in following these paragraphs—crammed with technical terminology and seeming digressions—to the punch line. Naturally, a lot of the humor is self-directed, mocking the authors’ own sense of seriousness.

Instead, of, say, No Country for Old Men, this genre pulls from a different strand of thought. “Solarpunk prioritizes hope and resilience in the face of the climate crisis. The stories in each collection are typically set in futures where solar energy takes center stage. Many are utopian. Others are post-apocalyptic, and these articulate a Solarpunk attitude in their portrayals of humanity’s battle to renew the Earth.”

Mantel, who works during and through quite a lot of pain, her sudden but last popularity has been unexpected. “The books are not for all readers, and some complain that they’re too complex, too allusive. Yet, there they remain, the unicorn of the publishing world: thorny masterpieces that sell like iPhones.”

The comic book publishing company Lion Forge is based in St. Louis, but is finding success with digital comics, including one about eating disorders that just won an award as one of the best graphic novels for teenagers. David Steward II, the founder and CEO: “For everybody to participate, you have to have representation that looks like everyone in this country. We’ve been careful to make sure that it is an inclusive line of characters. Kind of like the United Colors of Benetton [laughs], but it feels natural and organic.”

Tomi Adeyemi was inspired to write the young adult fantasy book while she was in a gift shop in Brazil. “The African gods and goddesses were depicted in such a beautiful and sacred way … it really made me think about all the beautiful images we never see featuring black people,” she says. So she created a book with those images, not just for her younger self but also to correct fantasy’s imbalance.

How did independent bookstores bounce back against Amazon – and what could other retail industries learn? This is exactly what a professor of organizational ethnography set out to study in 2009, long

Do authors have any rights with their deathbed wishes for literary executors? Somtimes. “Slavish obedience is one route for an executor, defiance for the sake of literature another. When several parties are involved, each jealously possessive of the author, things get trickier.”

The American Library Association had given him the Carnegie Medal and a $5,000 prize for nonfiction for his most recent book, and they had intended to hand out the prize in June. He declined this week, but the ALA isn’t going back to the drawing board – they simply won’t give the medal this year.

“Later this year, Mitzi Angel, 43, the publisher of Faber & Faber in London, will join FSG as its new publisher and senior vice president,” replacing Jonathan Galassi, who spent 20 years in the job. “Ms. Angel is in many ways a natural choice for the role. She worked at FSG for seven years before she became the publisher of Faber in 2015.”

“On March 3, a small team of conservative activists converged on Revolution Books in Berkeley, Calif. live-streaming their actions on Facebook with this description: ‘Infiltrating Berkeley’s Marxist Hive.’ ‘Fucking Commie scum,’ shouted one conservative activist, taunting the bookstore employees who met them at the door. He wore an American flag on his shoulders and a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat. ‘We’re gonna burn down your bookstore, you know that right?’ he said.”