Gesa Stedman suffered from acute reader’s rage, when she explored three female authors promoted by The Bookseller in recent months. Read more
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“Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing” Studie – jetzt auch auf Deutsch
Es ist soweit: rechtzeitig zur Frankfurter Buchmesse erscheint heute die deutsche Übersetzung des „Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing” Reports! Denn bei allen Unterschieden, die es zwischen den Buchbranchen in Großbritannien und Deutschland gibt, so sind doch auch viele Parallelen auszumachen, gerade was die Unterrepräsentation von Schwarzen Autor*innen und Autor*innen of Colour […] Read more
Happy Launch Day, V&Q Books! An Interview with Publisher and Translator Katy Derbyshire
Happy Publication Day! Today, V&Q Books officially launches its first book: Paula by Sandra Hoffmann, translated by Katy Derbyshire – the first in a hopefully long series of English translations of German books (www.vq-books.eu). The launch will be held at ocelot, not just another bookstore. It’s invitation only, but you […] Read more
Summer Break!
Dear readers, We hope this last post before the break finds you healthy and safe. We look forward to a wee break and shall be back with new posts in due time. Two more recommendations before we go: August is Women in Translation Month, founded six years ago by blogger […] Read more
Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing – Now Go Out and Make a Difference
On 23 June 2020, Dr Anamik Saha (Goldsmiths, University of London) and I launched our report called Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing. We spent the previous year interviewing 113 people in publishing and bookselling, and we set out to challenge the ways ‘diversity’ was talked about. And we wanted to find […] Read more
Book News for May and June 2020
Gesa Stedman goes on a round-trip and gives you the latest on sales figures, endemic racism in the literary field, bookselling during a pandemic, and more. The next Book News will be published after the summer break. Read more
Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing – #RethinkingDiversityWeek
It’s official! We’re online! We’re holding our report in our hands and we’re very much looking forward to sharing our findings with the world (ever so modest). We’re launching our report today, on 23 June! And you can access the e-version here: www.rethinkingdiversity.org.uk We carried out this project and wrote this […] Read more
We Need to Talk – and Do Something – about Racism
I don’t have any words right now, just rage and sadness. Like many others, I’m not surprised that our systems are racist, no matter whether you are looking at the US or Germany (or the UK, France and many others for that matter), but the extent of it still surprises […] Read more
Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing – Online Launch Coming Up
Last year on 1 May (which is not a public holiday in the UK, as I learned) I started to work with Dr Anamik Saha at Goldsmiths, University of London, on our joint project called “Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing”. The idea had been brewing in our heads for about three […] Read more
Common People –
“We’ve had enough and we are coming”
(The quote in the title is from the poem “Tough” by Tony Walsh (aka Longfella), published in Common People: An Anthology of Working Class Writers, ed. by Kit de Waal (Unbound, 2019).) On International Workers Day 2019, the anthology Common People was launched (first in a pub, then at the […] Read more
