Neal Wyatt

Take pleasure in the joy of making something nourishing and the comfort of convivial authorial company with these go-to cookbooks from the likes of Ina Garten and Edna Lewis.

The American Library Association (ALA) closed out its first virtual Midwinter Meeting—which was also its last Midwinter Meeting, as the 107-year-old conference format will be replaced next year by ALA’s LibLearnX event—with a highly anticipated conversation between ALA President Julius Jefferson and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden.

Natalie Baszile discusses We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy.

The ALA President’s Program at the American Library Association Virtual Midwinter Meeting 2021 featured U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo in conversation with fellow poet and memoirist Jill Bialosky, an executive editor at W. W. Norton.

The Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services (ABOS) presented “Exploring Ways to ‘Jazz Up’ Your Library's Bookmobile, Outreach, or Book Bike Program during the COVID-19 Pandemic with the Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services” during the American Library Association (ALA) Virtual Midwinter Meeting. The session was notably encouraging and upbeat, urging outreach librarians to reframe their services during the pandemic.

Anna Burns wins the International Dublin Literary Award for Milkman. The 2020 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize shortlist is announced. The CWA Dagger Awards are announced. Michael Robotham wins the Gold Dagger for Good Girl, Bad Girl. Agatha Christie and chess take center stage as a number of adaptations arrive.

Bernardine Evaristo will chair the judging panel for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021. Molly Stern, who was publisher of Crown before the shake-up at PRH, creates a new publishing company called Zando. Margaret Busby, an important voice in UK publishing, takes center stage. A Time for Mercy by John Grisham tops the bestseller list. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson soars to the top of the NYT nonfiction list. Suzanne Palmer wins the Theodore Sturgeon Award for “Waterlines.” There is a second trailer out for The Underground Railroad.