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    Book Deals: Week of May 20, 2024

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  • Shows & Events

    PEN America Holds Annual Gala Following Months of Turmoil

    Free expression nonprofit PEN America held its annual Literary Gala yesterday at the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. A small group of protesters critical of the organization's response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza passed out mock programs outside.

  • Libraries

    The Week in Libraries: May 17, 2024

    Among the week's headlines: ALA reports that library advocates stepped up for federal library funding; Alabama passes new rules for public libraries; and librarians in Montana pulled off an ice cold protest against the state library commission.

  • Financial Reporting

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    Trade publishing sales saw declines in the first quarter, precipitated by drops in the adult nonfiction and children's/YA categories, although audio continues to be a bright spot.

  • Business Deals

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  • Comics

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  • Bookselling

    Print Book Sales Fell 4% in April as Nonfiction Struggles

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  • Religion

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    More Black Americans are choosing nonbelief as their "religion" and Humanism as their new identification, says Anthony Pinn, author of 'The Black Practice of Disbelief: An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of Black Nonbelievers' (Beacon, May 22). PW caught up with Pinn to talk about Humanism as religion and why it appeals to many as a safer space than the Black church.

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