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New Sally Rooney Novel Coming this Fall
Add a AAA title to the autumn publishing calendar: FSG will publish Sally Rooney’s fourth novel, Intermezzo, on September twenty fourth. FSG president stated this about it in an announcement to PW: “Two men, three women—two brothers and the women they love.” That seems like a Sally Rooney novel to me.
Butterfly within the Sky
A feature-length documentary in regards to the making of Reading Rainbow referred to as Butterfly within the Sky can be launched in theaters in New York and different choose cities on March seventeenth. The de facto launch date for the remainder of us is April thirtieth, when will probably be obtainable on VOD. Burton and Reading Rainbow haven’t had the coziest relationship over the previous couple of years, and it seems like this one isn’t going to simply be a hagiography of a beloved present. Looking ahead to this.
Where is the Diversity In Publishing?
Lee & Low has launched the outcomes of its most up-to-date survey of range within the publishing trade. More than 24,000 surveys went out to to workers at publishers of all styles and sizes in North America (and obtained a response fee of 36%). It’s value wanting on the complete set of outcomes, however I’ll pull one quantity right here: 72.5% of the respondents recognized as white. Two (at the very least) attention-grabbing factors of comparability. First, in Lee & Low’s 2015 survey, 79% of respondents recognized as white. The closest comparable metric within the 2020 census had 75.5% of respondents responding as White, alone (the census has a bit of wrinkle within the White, alone stats that’s powerful to map immediately on to the Lee & Low numbers). Looks like there was actual sufficient change within the publishing trade that it at the very least is not any whiter, and maybe even a bit much less white, that the U.S. itself.
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