Friday, June 10, 2016

The Roundup with PW

Harry Potter and the Return of the Midnight Parties
With a roughly 4.5 million–copy initial laydown in North America, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two, a new play by Jack Thorne based on an original story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne, is poised to be the biggest release of the summer. Despite the fact that it is a play rather than a book, many booksellers have embraced the opportunity to sell the eighth story in the Harry Potter series after the nine-year hiatus since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows with midnight release parties.
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Literary Criticism's Grade Inflation: Literary Hub's new "Rotten Tomatoes for books," Book Marks, may prove that book criticism is too nice.

B&N Ed to Match Prices at College Stores: The company will offer a price-match guarantee against Amazon and other national retailers.

Ernest Hemingway's Middlebrow Revolution: On a literary sleight of hand only a master could pull off, and having it both ways in literature.

Xerox Sues Tate Publishing: In its lawsuit, the company claims the self-publishing house owes it $1.7 million.

Why are Writers So Jealous?: "Everyone knows that writers are ego-driven navel-gazers," writes Khalid Warsame. But why?
 
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS IN THE MEDIA

From the New York Times:
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Begins Previews in London, as the Magic Continues.
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From Entertainment Weekly:
Daniel Radcliffe explains why he hasn't seen Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
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From Book Riot:
Dystopian YA Tropes and the 2016 Presidential Election.
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From the Guardian:
Just revealed: the shortlist for the U.K.'s inaugural Klaus Flugge prize.
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From the New Yorker:
Kill The Boy Band author Goldy Moldavsky: "My mission was to write a dark comedy."
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From Entertainment Weekly:
Benedict Cumberbatch's How the Grinch Stole Christmas is delayed until 2018.
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From Brightly:
8 Sweet Picture Books That Celebrate Fatherhood.
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From the Guardian:
Top 10 fictional shops in children's books.
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From Slate:
Audience Members Who Got Opening-Night Tickets to the Harry Potter Play Loved It.
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From BuzzFeed:
17 Things You Will Probably Understand If You Can't See Cursed Child Yet.
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From School Library Journal:
Maggie Stiefvater on Finishing the Raven Cycle.
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From the A.V. Club:
4 YA authors on sex, SF, and what it means to write for young women.
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From the Washington Post:
Firoozeh Dumas put some of her own immigrant experience into It Ain't So Awful, Falafel.
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From the Guardian:
Black girls can be princesses too, that's why I wrote my books, says the author of the Princess Arabella series.
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From Brightly:
What Tweens Read When They're Feeling Down.
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From Brightly:
The Ultimate YA Summer Reading List.
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