Weekly Roundup: March 3rd-9th

Good morning from Bologna Global Rights Exchange!

Today's weekly roundup is full of exciting news and events to look forward to - for instance, the upcoming London Book Fair.

Shoutout also to the soon to be published collection of short stories by renowned author Harper Lee, which I am sure will be an increbile read.

With that said, I hope these articles and opinion pieces will make your dreaded commute to work a little more enjoyable...

As always, buona lettura!

Former publishing staffers launch new publishing services company BeRead

• Unseen Harper Lee stories set in New York and Alabama to be published | Books | The Guardian

• A Publisher Pulled a Romance Novel After Criticism From Early Readers - The New York Times

• ‘Something magical is happening’: sales boom for children’s comics creating young readers of the future | Comics and graphic novels | The Guardian

• The Book Business Prepares for Tariff Turmoil

 

• Kaliane Bradley, Miranda July and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie longlisted for 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction

• Newly announced Book of the Year shortlists reflect the ‘contours of the year past and months to come’

• London Book Fair 2025: agents' hotlists

 

• How Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wrote Her Way Through Loss - The New York Times

• The great American classic we’ve been misreading for 100 years

• Jeremy Denk’s Musical Account of American Divisions | The New Yorker

 

• European Union Prize for Literature. La shortlist dei 13 libri in gara (di cui uno dall'Italia)

• A Napoli, il 21 marzo, il primo convegno AIE dedicato alla promozione della lettura nel Sud e nelle Isole

• 150 libri scritti da donne da leggere - ilLibraio.it

• Eleonora Giorgi e le sue Rizzoli

- Lara Abrahams