“Later we drove to the beach to celebrate his former recovery house friends’ sobriety dates. There he surprised me by taking a one-day chip.” New at MUTHA: a pair of poems from Carla Rachel Sameth. 🔗

PW is now accepting panel, program, and speaker submissions for the sixth annual U.S. Book Show, to be held June 2–3, 2026 in New York City. If you have an idea—or would like to propose yourself or a colleague as a speaker or workshop leader—please submit your information.

The foundation has awarded 52 nonprofit poetry-based organizations, publications, presses, and literary arts service organizations a total of $1,345,000 in general operating support grants in the fall 2025 cycle.

This year’s Miami Book Fair, which runs through November 23, is expected to draw more than 60,000 attendees. We talked with the fair’s executive director about its robust Spanish-language program, children’s offerings, and more.

lol the fandom articles are all so super mad about this chunky knit (LOOKS HAND KNIT (compliment)) grey sweater and one is like "ugh I bet my MOM would love it" and I'm over here like CAN CONFIRM

wicked movie is low-key an advertisement for two very different, but both extremely good, extra long wrap cardigans most unexpected cardigans in a film award

“Her brain was on fire with the hallucinations…” New from Brittany Miles. #mentalhealth

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welcome to the weird, weird west

welcome to the weird, weird west

#comics #publishing www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Click around choose-your-own-adventure style to find #comics picks! With a shout-out to @calreid.bsky.social who despite his absurd claims to retirement, yet again took my call to talk through the category—and to all the anonymous reviewers at PW. Many more worthy books than we could fit!

The CBLDF's Jeff Trexler discusses the latest threats to free speech through comics with Calvin Reid for the @publisherswkly.bsky.social More to Come podcast @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/...

Interesting on the #comics front. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

psst Wet Moon x Mothra

I got to talk to some rad people for this piece on indie artists doing licensed comics. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

As a sidebar to my PW piece on tie-in comics, enjoy my listicle of upcoming gaming graphic novels! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

NBCC member Meg Lemke wrote previews of fall 2025 comics for Publishers Weekly:

My little Q&A with Diane DiMassa, creator of the cult classic comics zine, Hothead Paisan, is up and at em on Publishers Weekly: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

god I love PTA meetings (sincere)

my teenager landed such a sick burn on me in the midst of a teenagey argument that I am still amazed and impressed days later

“The real horror comes not from the specter of witches among us, but from the fact that people who can become pregnant have found themselves transported back to the 15th century…” Excerpted from @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social’s GRAPHIC RAGE: COMICS ON GENDER, JUSTICE, AND LIFE AS A WOMAN IN AMERICA. 🌙

One of @melodyglenn.bsky.social’s major hopes for her book MOTHER OF METHADONE is that it leads to policy change that increases access to methadone and #HarmReduction and prioritizes treatment over incarceration. @muthamagazine.bsky.social

“I’ve since wondered: Is that when Duke first spotted me? Is that why he pursued my mom?” New from Kayte Young.

Must-Read Manga of 2025

Not Your Regularly Expected Programming—Comics Media Tie-Ins Take Creative License

Five New Graphic Novels for Gamers, However They Play

A very Halloween-y excerpt from GRAPHIC RAGE is up at Mutha Magazine today! 🧙‍♀️

aluminum foil is weird you guys. just saying.

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Best Books 2025: Publishers Weekly: Best Graphic Novels for Adults

check it out: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

PW’s top #graphicnovel picks for 2025… happy to see the excellent Black Arms To Hold You Up by @benpassmore.bsky.social there. #books #comics #BookSky best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...

More to Come 702: NYCC 2025 Interviews: Calvin talks with Jeff Trexler, interim director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund; Heidi talks with writer and artist Tom Scioli, and artist Danny Earls; and Meg interviews Toril Orlesky.

Publishers Weekly has Announced its Picks for the Best Books of 2025: Ready or not, it's best books of the year season. Here are Publishers Weekly's picks for the ten best books of 2025.

We are so excited to share with you the Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2025! 📚👉 tinyurl.com/342bw6tf

Better than Disney World #comics #boumeries

Check out our PW Best Books 2025 for your next favorite read! buff.ly/segXqqf

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See what we published in this week’s print issue of Publishers Weekly, including our best books of 2025 and more. buff.ly/Q30xWMv

psssst best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...

Best Books season kicks off: Publisher Weekly's best comics of 2025

Bridey Thelen-Heidel took our conversation to wonderful places. Thanks for the journey 💞

"Mommy you are so BEHIND on Halloween. Most years you are much better at Halloween."

psssst best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...

"Mommyyyyy I neeeeeed a kiln" child it is 7 in the morning on a Sunday

Annual PSA that PW is an advance of publication reviews magazine that covers titles months ahead and happy October y'all, it's the end of the year on my desk already

"Decades of squeezing...." [my child talking to himself, destroying oranges] "that should be the name of a movie, don't you think, Mommy"

Woke up this morning to news that Water Mirror Echo has been named one of the Top 10 Books of 2025 by Publishers Weekly It’s been a long journey and I sit here overflowing with gratitude. Thank you for reading! #WaterMirrorEcho

[congrats emjoi]