Meta Wins Halt to Promotion of ‘Careless People’ Tell-All Book by Former Employee
In the second annual Libby Book Awards, Libby celebrates the top ebooks and audiobooks of the year. This award highlights the titles most loved by library patrons across the U.S. Nonfiction winners include:
- Adult Nonfiction: The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
- Audiobooks: The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson, Narrated by Will Patton and Erik Larson
- Comic / Graphic Novel: Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls
- Cookbook: Anything’s Pastable by Dan Pashman
- Memoir and Autobiography: Knife by Salman Rushdie
- Business Book: When We Are Seen by Denise Young
Meta wins halt to promotion of ‘Careless People’ tell-all book by former employee
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Meta’s former director of global publicity policy, has a new memoir out that was kept secret until just a few weeks before its publication. And for good reason. Wynn-Williams alleges that Meta considered sharing user data with China. Meta won an emergency arbitration ruling with a judge ruling that Wynn-Williams must stop promoting her book. However, Reuters reports that the ruling “did not order any action by the publisher” Macmillan.
Glennon Doyle announces her next book, ‘We Can Do Hard Things’
Glennon Doyle, her wife Abby Wambach, and her sister Amanda Doyle have hosted the podcast We Can Do Hard Things for over 400 episodes. But recently, Glennon was diagnosed with anorexia, Amanda was diagnosed with breast cancer, and Abby’s brother passed away. They are feeling adrift and lost. They each traveled into uncharted territory and channeled their feelings into a new book: We Can Do Hard Things. As they navigated their new realities, they had conversations with women who became guiding lights in their lives. Today reports that they interview women like “Ina Garten, Justice Ketanji Brown, Cheryl Strayed, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Emily Nagoski, Esther Perel, and more.”
Librarian Criminalization Bills Are Growing, But They’re Not New: Book Censorship News
Book Riot’s own Kelly Jensen reports on the Librarian Criminalization bills, which she describes as “all bills which would remove obscenity protections against library workers.” These bills endanger librarians and libraries, making it so that parents can sue libraries if they don’t like a book offered by the library.
That’s it for this week! You can find me over on my substack Winchester Ave or over on Instagram @kdwinchester. As always, feel free to drop me a line at kendra.d.winchester@gmail.com. For even MORE bookish content, you can find my articles over on Book Riot.
