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Creators on Banned Book Week, Sally Rooney, and more!
Ava DuVernay, Bookstore Airbnbs, Maya (MnMBooks)
Kyle Colley
September 24, 2024
Happy Tuesday!
Thank you to everyone who stopped by our conversation with the amazing Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
A special thank you to Sol for her amazing facilitation of the conversation!
Check out our latest Creators Talk Podcast with @mnmbooks - Maya!
We discuss South Asian authors, BookTok, and content creation:
Table of Content:
📚 Conversation with Dr. Ariel King
📺 Creators on Banned Book Week
📖 Sally Rooney's new book
This Week On Bookum:
If you could meet anyone, dead or alive, who would it be?
What questions would you ask them?
On Friday (10:30AM EST), we are sitting down with the worldly Dr. Ariel King, author of Humanity Unveiled, as she shares her intimate encounters with luminaries such as Dr. Maya Angelou, Dr. Nina Simone, President Nelson Mandela, and many more.
Dr. King is a humanitarian and founder/President of Ariel Foundation International since 2000. She holds a special Economic and Social Council status at the United Nations.
Dr. Ariel Rosita King
Tune in on Friday to listen to the conversation live on the app; it's sure to be full of interesting stories about some of the world's most iconic figures.
This Week in The Book World:
We are listening to the creators again this week.
On Monday, Banned Book Week began.
By the Numbers:
According to The Guardian, 10,000 books were banned in U.S. public schools from 2023-2024, almost 3x as many as the previous year (3,362).
Creators in the book space are doing their part by reading, spreading stats, and doing giveaways.
Groups like Melanin & Manuscripts Book Club are sharing their book lists and stats, while clothing companies like Kind Cotton are making exclusive Banned Book Week merch and donating books to kids all over the country.
Award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay is getting in on the action as well, serving as the honorary chair of Banned Book Week.
Two of her films based on books, A Wrinkle in Time and Origins, have been challenged as well.
Let us know what you are reading this week on Bookum, and share your reviews with the community!
This Week in Publishing:
Out today is another Sally Rooney book sure to be all over social feeds.
Sally Rooney is a literary fiction author and screenwriter known for books such as Normal People, Conversations with Friends, and Beautiful World, Where Are You.
Her new book, Intermezzo, tells the story of two brothers—one a lawyer, Peter, and one a chess prodigy, Ivan—who work through the death of their father, their complicated romantic lives, and their even more tangled relationship with each other. Ten years separate the Koubek brothers.
Add the book to your TBR list on Bookum!
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Happy Reading!
See you next week!
Footnotes (Aka other articles we are reading and Bookum content):
World’s Only ‘Bookstore Airbnb’ Has 2-Year Wait List for Guests Wanting to Sell Used Books By Day - https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/worlds-only-bookstore-airbnb-has-2-year-wait-list-for-visitors-wanting-to-sell-used-books-by-day/
Creator Jack Edwards: The problem with the "100 best books of the century" list (as someone who contributed to it) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdLvqO2L1v0
