Playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, author Roxane Gay and Olympic skater Michelle Kwan are among those contributing essays to an anthology about navigating between cultures.
“American Like Me” will feature stories from those trying find an identity in a culture that often “underrepresents or ignores” their experiences.
“American Like Me” will be edited by the actress and activist America Ferrera. She is donating a portion of her proceeds to the nonprofit Immigrants We Get the Job Done Coalition, which provides legal support for immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
Gallery Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint, announced that the book comes out Sept. 25.
Another big week of sales for Bill Clinton’s first novel: For the second straight week, a thriller co-written by former President Bill Clinton is NPD BookScan’s top seller.
“The President is Missing,” co-written by James Patterson, tells of a president trying to prevent a devastating cyberattack. BookScan announced that it sold 121,300 copies in its second week, just a slight drop from its opening week of 152,000. BookScan tracks around 85 percent of the print market.
Published June 4, “The President is Missing” is Clinton’s first novel. It has now sold more than 350,000 combined print, e-book and audio copies despite mixed reviews and some awkward interviews as Clinton responded to questions about the #MeToo movement.
New study finds continued gender disparity in book coverage: A new study finds that few of the top literary publications are giving equal time to female authors and reviewers.
The highly anticipated “VIDA Count,” released last week, has The New Yorker, The Nation and The Atlantic among those devoting less than 40 percent of their book coverage to women in 2017. Only two of the 15 publications analyzed gave women 50 percent or more — Poetry magazine and Granta. Those between 40 percent and 49 percent include The New York Times Book Review and the Paris Review.
VIDA, otherwise known as Women in Literary Arts, has been tallying gender disparities in book reviews since 2010.
— Associated Press
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