AGP Executive Report
Last update: 42 minutes agoPublishing & Policy Watch: New Zealand’s Treasury is set to release its Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (PREFU) on Sept. 29, with economists expecting few dramatic surprises as forecasts update ahead of the Nov. 7 election. Author Events: Food writer Toni Tipton-Martin headlines a free Evansville literary event Oct. 22 with Q&A and book signing, while Shashi Tharoor released a poetry debut by IIM-K director Debashis Chatterjee (Seven Shades of Love) via Penguin Random House India. Books & Culture: Banned Books Week returns Oct. 4–10 with the theme “Let Books Be. Protect the Freedom to Read,” and a new Wendell Berry remembrance program highlights community reading and local author talks. Comics Spotlight: DC’s Poison Ivy #48 preview tees a Gotham under Mayor Ivy’s rule, and Amazing Spider-Man #1000 reworks Spider-Girl lore with a Frank Miller/Peach Momoko twist. Tech & Power in Print: Mezha’s September picks spotlight books on copyright, propaganda, genomics, military AI, and surveillance, including MIT Press’s Soviet Blocks on Tetris’s legal and geopolitical journey.
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