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📚Wallo267 Joins Bookum + Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced!

📚Wallo267 Joins Bookum + Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced!

The Rolling Stones, Shellye Archambeau, Verizon

Kyle Colley
May 07, 2026

Happy Thursday!

And Happy May!

New month, but we are bringing the same book vibes!

Live look at us reading nothing but 5 stars this month 🤞

Thank you everyone that joined our Author Talks Podcast with the legendary Silicon Valley former CEO of MetricStream and Verizon Board Member Shellye Archambeau on her latest book "Unapologetically Ambitious" (Episode will be out in May on all platforms)

You all get another medley of Bookum podcast conversations because we have to make up for lost time.

Check out our recent "Founders Talk Podcast" with film/television producer and founder of The Black List Franklin Leonard

Our conversation with NY Times Bestselling author Keith O'Brien on his new book “Heartland A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird”

Our Conversation book content creator, vlogger, writer Amber Burns.

All new episodes can be found on Apple, Spotify and all Podcast Platforms. Make sure to follow the show to catch all new episodes!

The Bookum Nook Show

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This Week On Bookum:

Get your popcorn ready for this one 🍿!

Join us tomorrow at 1PM for a special ‘Author Talks Podcast’ with the inspirational Wallo267 on his forthcoming book “Yes to You, No to Them.”

Preorder your copy today

Wallo is an entrepreneur, New York Times bestselling author, motivational speaker, and co-host of the Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast alongside Gillie.

We will discuss entrepreneurship, writing, his life story, and his books.

Preorder your copy of “Yes to You, No to Them” and get your copy of his other books out now.

As always, you can listen live on the Bookum App [Nooks].

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This Week in The Book World:

All Mondays are not created equally, but if they were, Pulitzer Monday would still reign supreme.

The Pulitzer Prize for Best Fiction, Non-Fiction, History, and more (we mostly just care about the books tbh😆) were handed out this week!

For Fiction, Daniel Kraus won for Angel Down

[You all know the motto WE SHOUTOUT CREATORS (and Authors)] Katie Kitamura who join us for a Nook last year for her Book “Audition” was also a Fiction Finalist)

In the Non-Fiction corner, There Is No Place for Us took home the hardware.

And in History, the book We the People by Jill Lepore took home the Gold Medal.

Did you read any of these? Will you circle back around to them now that they are popping?

Let us know and make sure to add them to your TBR list or leave your book reviews on Bookum!

Check out all the winners:

Here are the 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners

Award winners include authors Daniel Kraus, Jill Lepore and Yiyun Li, opinion writer M. Gessen and staffers and contributors at The Washington Post, Reuters and AP.

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This Week in Publishing:

To quote David Letterman… This band needs no introduction.

For this week, New York Times bestselling author Bob Spitz (who previously wrote Led Zeppelin: The Biography) is back with his new book 'The Rolling Stones: The Biography' chronicling the 60-year journey of one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time.

Summary:

"All great music is a threat.

What is left there to say about The Rolling Stones? A lot, it turns out.

Bob Spitz has brought his indefatigable energy and five decades of experience in the fields and hollows of rock 'n’ roll to bear on his five-year journey to reexamine one of popular music’s greatest stories.

At its heart the story is about two boys, Mick and Keith, and their unique, fraught, alchemical bond, often tested, never sundered."

Bob Spitz