AGP Executive Report
Last update: 10 hours agoNational Book Festival (U.S.): New Mexico will represent itself in Washington, D.C., with two Gila National Forest titles—Caroline Starr Rose’s youth book The Burning Season and Philip Connors’ The Mountain Knows the Mountain: A Fire Watch Diary—both centered on fire lookouts. Teen Screen Habits: Journalist Madonna King’s Screen Wise draws on interviews with 300 teenagers to argue that screen harm goes beyond social media bans. Speculative Fiction & “What If?”: Queenstown author Kahli Scott debuts Our Common Thread, a portal novel where one woman explores alternate versions of her life. Publishing & AI Accountability: Rich Carr’s Stake Skills: Owning the Work AI Does for You urges workers to keep records of AI-assisted work. Book-to-TV/Streaming Buzz: Reacher won’t adapt Lee Child’s “61 Hours” (too snowbound to film), while Apple TV’s Dark Matter Season 2 keeps strong review momentum. Global Book Culture: Togo plans to update school geography materials using the Equal Earth map projection after a UN vote. Local Events: Syracuse Public Library’s Local Authors Festival invites regional writers to sign and promote books.
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