Roxane Gay Starts New Imprint with Grove Atlantic
Roxane Gay—professor, editor, social commentator, and bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger–is starting a new imprint with Grove Atlantic called Roxane Gay Books. Gay’s imprint will publish three books a year, both fiction and nonfiction, and will sponsor a publishing fellowship program “for candidates who might not have access to the industry through traditional avenues.” Gay said in a statement earlier today, “It has been a lifelong dream to have a literary imprint of my own where I could publish great books and have the support of a storied publishing house behind me.”
Peek Inside the Official Schitt’s Creek Tie-in Book
The Emmy Award-winning series Schitt’s Creek is getting an official tie-in book from the show’s co-creators Dan and Eugene Levy. The upcoming coffee-table book Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt’s Creek is set to publish this October and will include character profiles, key moments from the six-season series, and much more. Exclusively at Entertainment Weekly, you can get a look at some of the pages of the upcoming book, including the complete collection of David’s knits.
Netflix Releases Trailer, Images, and Voice Cast for New Anime Series Trese
Netflix has released a trailer, images, and the voice cast for their upcoming new anime series. The show is based upon Budjette Tan and KaJO Baldisimo’s graphic novel Trese. Set in a version of Manila where creatures of Philippine folklore walk amongst humans, Trese follows Alexandra Trese who finds herself up against a criminal underworld filled with evil supernatural beings. The series comes to Netflix on June 11 and stars Shay Mitchell as Alexandra Trese. Other cast members include Darren Criss, Jon Jon Briones, Nicole Scherzinger, Manny Jacinto, Lou Diamond Phillips, Eric Bauza, Dante Basco, Steve Blum, carlos Alazraqui, Matthew Yang King, Griffin Puatu, and Rodney To.
The Past, Present, and Future of BookTube, According to BookTubers
BookTube is the bookish community on YouTube, and while it started off small, it’s a community that has grown exponentially in the past ten years. Here’s what veteran BookTubers have to say about the state of BookTube today, how we got there, and what might be coming up next.