Under Pamela Paul, a New Books Desk Takes Shape at the ’Times’
One of the book resources I look at most often is coverage by The New York Times. In this article Publishers Weekly looks at recent changes in the way the paper covers book-related news:
In mid August, New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet announced in a note to staff that New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul would oversee all Times books and publishing industry coverage. Two weeks later, how exactly this move might change coverage is beginning to come to light.
New study finds that paper books rule with American readers
A new study by the Pew Research Center has found that 65 percent of Americans surveyed had read a paperback or hardcover over the past year, compared to 28 percent who opted to read an e-book. Forty percent of those surveyed said they only read print books, while just 6 percent read e-books exclusively.
Ten books you should read this September
Although titles that tell other people what they should do make me cringe, I can’t resist a list of reading recommendations.
Of the books listed here, the one that appeals to me the most is Ruth Franklin’s biography of Shirley Jackson.
What about you?
Can Jonathan Safran Foer Make a Comeback?
Alex Shephard muses on Here I Am, Foer’s third novel recently published after a 10-year hiatus.
Here I Am has some thematic overlaps with the first two books (namely, the question of what it means to be an American Jew in the 21st-century). But despite that kinship and its occasional formal digressions—there’s a Second Life-y video game, transcripts of sexts, excerpts from a screenplay, oh, yeah, the imagined destruction of the state of Israel—it’s more of a self-consciously ambitious Franzen-esque Big Book.
© 2016 by Mary Daniels Brown
