We lost Supreme Court Justice and badass women’s rights advocate Ruth Bader Ginsburg this week, after an over two-decade fight with multiple types of cancer. Here’s 8 books about RBG from the New York Times and 6 recommendations from USA Today, and the (ridiculously) eloquent 13-year-old RBG speaking on prejudice. Complement these with this beautiful, wrecking elegy from Lynn Steger Strong and a throwback to RBG’s 2016 advice on living. We also said goodbye to the beloved Guess How Much I Love You children’s book author Sam McBratney this week.
The National Book Foundation’s 5 under 35 were just announced (look at that lineup!), as was the 2020 National Book Award longlist.
The biggest celebrity book news of the week: former U.S. President Barack Obama has penned a memoir! The memoir will be published in two volumes, the first of which will be released after the elections this November and covers the President’s early political career up through the 2011 death of Osama Bin Laden. It’s going to be huge for the industry (and the reader – buckle up, folks, the first volume is 768 pages long). The Bodega Boys wrote a book, Lady Gaga is releasing a collection of short personal stories by young people, and JK Rowling is in trouble again. John Boehner has an… interesting? sensual?… new book cover, and Lil Nas X wrote the “best kids’ book of all time.” A Downton Abbey cookbook is coming out in October. Continue reading “This Week in Literary News”