Gesa Stedman takes a look at the main trends of the key pandemic years when shops were closed, readers turned to fiction again, festivals went online and bookfairs were cancelled. Read more
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Does the Digital Economy Support Literary Diversity?
Hannah Pardey, lecturer and researcher at Leibniz-Universität Hanover, is an expert on the digital aspects of the contemporary literary field. She explores in what way digitalisation enables or hinders literary diversity and takes a close look at the intersection of AI, emotion, and diversity. Read more
The Four Nations of the UK – How the Literary Field Works Beyond London
Gesa Stedman explores the complex connections and the colonial legacies which characterise Read more
Frankfurt Book Fair 2020 – “Improving Diversity in Publishing”
Frankfurt Book Fair created a “Special Edition” in 2020 and went completely online, allowing me (during the last few weeks of my pregnancy) to participate in a panel called “Improving Diversity in Publishing: Who Can Lead the Change Process?” with the following speakers, chaired by Dr Anamik Saha, Senior Lecturer […] 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
Book News April 2020
Gesa Stedman rounds up the most recent news from the literary field in the UK and in Germany, from Corona-affected bookshops Read more
Catching up on African literature: WiM in Berlin
WiM stands for “Writing in Migration”, the first African literature festival in Germany. It took place last week at the Babylon in Berlin. It was organised by the literary agency InterKontinental and curated by Olumide Popoola. Sandra van Lente attended two of the events and wrote a short report for […] Read more
Meanwhile in France: La Rentrée Littéraire
While authors, publishers, agents, and other people in the German book industry are getting ready for the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, in France it’s all about the “rentrée littéraire”. On Karambolage, a show produced by the public “European Culture Channel” arte, Baptiste Touverey explains the “rentrée littéraire” to those who […] Read more
