Edited by Amanda Bruns, Iyana Jones, Emma Kantor, Amanda Ramirez, and Diane Roback | Welcome to Publishers Weekly’s 11th Children’s Starred Reviews Annual! In these pages, you’ll find nearly 400 reviews of books for children and teens published in 2023 that received a star from PW, indicating that they are titles of exceptional merit. We’ve…

C.S. Lewis died on Nov. 22, 1963, at 64 years old. During his lifetime, he published 37 books and many more essays, taught English literature at Oxford University and served as chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, per the C.S. Lewis website. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential…

Herbert Gold, a prolific novelist whose taut, keenly observed and sometimes sharply satirical works about love, heartache and the Jewish experience in postwar America brought him critical ovations but only fleeting fame, died Nov. 19 at his apartment in San Francisco. He was 99. His son, filmmaker Ari Gold, confirmed his death but did not…

A founder of the St. Mark’s Bookshop in the East Village, he prided himself on stocking titles that were not “too popular” and stayed in business for four decades. Bob Contant, who stubbornly sustained his countercultural bookshop for nearly four decades, even as it decamped farther and farther from its punk-rock playground on St. Mark’s…

23 November 2023   Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing The winners of the 2023 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards have been announced. The winning works in each category are: Fiction ($2500) Nonfiction ($2500) Poetry ($1000) Digital innovation ($1500) Readers’ choice award ($250) The readers’ choice award was voted for by people in the community from the shortlists announced earlier…

It could take him days to write a sentence. From July to November 1853, he labored over a single scene. He suffered, as if from a physical ailment, from “scribbling whole pages” without producing any satisfactory lines. During the first 18 months of the most consequential love affair of his life, he wrote his paramour…

As a bookseller off and on at a major chain for the past nine years, I’m reasonably confident that when I see a cover I know where it belongs in the store. Yet the book Twisted Love by Ana Huang has a deceptively simple cover: It’s pale blue, and its title is written in a…

As a writer, a reader, and a parent, one of the things I’m most grateful for this year—and every year—is books. And I know I’m not alone. So these Parents gathered some of your favorite children’s book authors to ask them about the one book they’re most thankful for. Because there’s nothing like snuggling up…

Larry J. Martin, Craig Johnson, and more honored at annual celebration in the Fort Worth Stockyards. Long live the cowboy poet. The Fort Worth Stockyards was brimming with appreciation for the arts at this year’s Will Rogers Medallion Awards October 20 – 21. Originally created to recognize excellence in cowboy poetry, the Will Rogers Medallion…