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Elda Rotor at Viking Books bought world rights, at auction, to Seizing Black Space by Deirdre Mullane at Mullane Literary Associates. Viking said the book, subtitled A New History of Race and Mobility in America, “chronicles African American struggles to make claims on the American landscape—from vibrant slave communities and early free urban enclaves to thriving Black Wall Streets and the ghost towns of communities razed by fear and violence—across four centuries of displacement and renewal.” Commander is the associate director and curator of the Schomburg Center’s Lapidus Cente...

Normal text size Very large text size What a year. Who would have thought this time last year that 2020 would bring a pandemic? And what did it mean for books? Well, publishing schedules went a bit haywire as titles were postponed, trumpeted or slipped under the radar. It was possibly the worst time to be a debut author, with launches taking on a new identity. Writers festivals and bookshop events were cancelled or migrated online. But didn't we readers respond well? We took to virtual events in our homes with alacrity, while festival directors swiftly and imaginatively adapted their offering...

Silvia Moreno-Garcia & Margaret Atwood win 2020 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards The Goodreads Readers Choice Awards are given out in 20 categories across several genres and are voted on by readers. More than five million votes were cast in 2020. Social Sharing Posted: Dec 09, 2020 12:45 PM ET | Last Updated: December 9, 2020 Silvia Moreno-Garcia (left) and Margaret Atwood are among the 2020 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards winners.(Martin Dee, Luis Mora/penguinrandomhouse.ca)

This terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year was not actually that rough on books. Sales throughout the early months of quarantine were up over 2019’s numbers, even when you figured in the sizable new market for educational titles in parents scrambling to home-school their children. However, the pandemic has delivered body blows to bookstores, some of them mortal. The long-term effects of this loss on a system in which local booksellers and publicity tours remain one of the best ways to launch a debut author won’t be clear for a while. When book sales were up in 2020, the bump went to...