More than 100 protesters rallied outside Amazon.com’s annual meeting Thursday at the Seattle Art Museum, where the company told shareholders it planned to improve warehouse conditions and drop its membership in a conservative public-policy organization.
50 Shades of Grey hits 10 million mark in sales this week.
New York Times reviews Jubilee Hitchhiker, the biography of Richard Brautigan. (Does anyone else miss poetry month?) Filled with fascinating facts. “He had an impromptu pasta sauce cook-off with Francis Ford Coppola. He drunkenly pointed a rifle at Wim Wenders, who had mildly criticized the translation in one of Brautigan’s German editions. Janis Joplin wanted him to name her new band.” Who knew?
John Waters is collecting material for his new book tentatively titled Carsick set to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Please stay safe John, BookPeople loves you!
Henry Denker, prolific author and playwright, passed away at the age of 99.
Fulfilling Faulkner’s visions, a new edition of The Sound and the Fury set to be released this summer.
It was announced this week that for the first time ever Book Expo America (BEA) will be available to view in live stream for all to enjoy!
PW picks best books of the week, The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins, Cronkite by Douglas Brinkley, & Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon all made the cut. We can’t wait to host these three fantastic authors in June, be sure to check out events section of our website for more information.
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