Industry Events

The Center for Fiction is holding a grand opening in downtown Brooklyn on February 19 in a new $6 million building that features a reading room, a 160-seat auditorium, and a bookstore.

After two down years, attendance was up sharply at the 2019 ALA Midwinter Meeting.

While some attendees at Winter Institute were excited to meet basketball star Kobe Bryant and learn about his new children's imprint, others said they may not sell his books, recalling his being charged with sexual assault in 2003.

A confident indie bookselling sector looks to the future—and to next year's conference in Baltimore, Md.

Margaret Atwood and Erin Morgenstern engaged Thursday morning in conversation in front of booksellers that created a buzz lasting all day, as booksellers eagerly anticipate the release this fall of both authors' next novels.

Despite weather-related travel problems, 700+ indie booksellers gathered in Albuquerque to network among themselves, talk to publishers about new books, and meet authors.

Comedian John Oliver will host the 2019 PEN America Literary Gala, where investigative journalist and 'Fear' author Bob Woodward will be honored alongside Scholastic chairman and CEO Dick Robinson.

With 23 Native American tribes in New Mexico, the only surprise is that it took so long for someone to launch a bookstore dedicated to “indigenerds”—or Native Americans obsessed with comics, games, and pop culture.

Over the past three years, Hanif Abdurraqib has earned a reputation for his poetry and cultural criticism. Now he's poised to publish 'Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest' (Univ. of Texas, Feb.), a book-length essay about the seminal rap group.

Following the success of 'The Handmaid’s Tale' on Hulu and a Netflix miniseries of her novel 'Alias Grace,' Atwood spoke with PW in 2017 about the resurgence of interest in her work.