Publishers Weekly

Ballantine bets big on a novel about a runaway heiress in Prohibition-era Detroit, Louise Penny takes Chief Inspector Gamache back to Minotaur for two more, and more in this week’s book deals.

An inside look at the publication process for the author’s latest memoir .

Abby Jimenez tops our hardcover fiction list with Say You’ll Remember Me. Plus Ahnest Kitchen’s Sarah Ahn lands at #2 on our hardcover nonfiction list with her Umma, and Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud team up for The Cartoonists Club.

Read with Jenna selects a new literary thriller from Amity Gaige, Reese’s Book Club spotlights Emily Everett’s debut, and more.

A brief filing made late on April 10 suggests that the court is prepared to back the offer made for Diamond by Alliance Entertainment over a lower bid from Universal Entertainment and Ad Populum.

With season three of ‘The White Lotus’ wrapped up, here are six new and upcoming mysteries that satisfy the same desire for stories about getaways gone wrong.

In these recent novels and story collections, authors use the conventions of genre as a launchpad to explore unsettling and all-too-real truths.

Andrews McMeel Publishing—best known for its lifestyle, humor, and poetry offerings—is launching a religious book imprint, Amen Editions, targeting “creative Christians” and women in particular.

The author shares the stories behind 'The Twilight of Bohemia' (Black Sparrow, Apr.), an oral history of New York City's publicly funded Westbeth Artists Community, which has been home to jazz musician Gil Evans, photographer Diane Arbus, actors Danny DeVito and Rhea Pearlman, and many others.

Lerner launched his children’s publishing company in 1959 and built it up over the next 50 years into one of the country’s largest independent publishers of books for young people. He died in Minneapolis on April 8.

The awards—which since 1985 have bestowed more than $10 million on early-career writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama—were announced at a ceremony at the New York Historical on April 9.

This powerful and scrupulously compiled record tells the story of Dranger’s family’s experiences leading up to and during the Holocaust—and serves as a powerful memorial to the suffering of its victims and survivors.

Pioneering counterculture cartoonist Robert Crumb finally gets his due in Crumb (Pantheon, Apr.), a new biography from the Picturebox Comics founder and former Comics Journal editor.

At an April 8 summit on AI, Vermont senator Peter Welch and former Virginia representative Bob Goodlatte, among others, stressed that copyright protections should not be dismantled to accelerate AI development.