Weekly Roundup: June 2nd - 8th

Good morning from Bologna Global Rights Exchange!

The publishing industry never stops, and because of this, it is crucial to find guidance in the midst of news and articles we are bombarded with every day.

The purpose of this roundup is exactly this: to help you navigate information and find what is most relevant to know today. 

I hope you will find it useful, and that after all these months, you are still enjoying all the articles and opinion pieces carefully chosen to publish every Monday of the week.

With that said, buona lettura!

• Writer Edmund White has died at 85

• Penguin Random House buys Wonderbly

• AI Clones of Books Are Showing Up on Amazon

• 'Incredibly useful' or 'hallucinatory and racist': how book professionals have found using AI at work

 

• Wilbur Smith 2025 shortlist released

• Crime-writing festival Bloody Scotland announces 2025 shortlist

• Bloomsbury celebrates Anthony Bourdain with 25th anniversary edition of Kitchen Confidential

• Karen Leeder and Durs Grünbein have won the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize

 

• Salman Rushdie on censorship in America today

• ‘I’m here to open doors’: Bernardine Evaristo on success, controversy and why she plans to donate her £100k award

• ‘Great Rewiring’ or moral panic: are young people really …

 

• Premio Strega 2025, ecco la cinquina finalista

• Dalla parte della trama 

• Morta un’Einaudi se ne fa un’altra, la fine simbolica della “rateale”

 

- Lara Abrahams