On about books, we delve into the latest news about the Publishing Industry with interesting insider interviews with Publishing Industry experts. Well also give you updates on current nonfiction authors and books, the latest book reviews, and well talk about the current nonfiction books featured on cspans book tv. Welcome to the about books podcast and program. Joining us in just a few minutes is regional dwayne bett, hes an author and founder of an organization that provides books for incarcerated people. But first, heres a look at one social media phenomenon taking the Publishing Industry by storm. Its called book talk. Its where users of the social media site tiktok record themselves reviewing, reacting to or even acting out books, and then they post the videos using the booktok. Book tok began during the pandemic. Today more than 11 million book tok videos exist with over 60 billion, with a b, views. Heres just one recent example. Telling you if its worth the hype. Yes. Deals with
Our class is about a drama class taught in prison and about the teaching and learning about the prison and he people who have to live in it and around it and who are trying to survive its violence and trauma and play cage was begun there with the full participation of the class in realize in a series of public performances. We hear the voices of the students read over. They work to find their own stories and have the courage to dramatize them. This book is full of hard stories. It dares every complacency about what the society does to people. On the title page, and i see the copies of the book around the room. So you should look at this. I want you to look at the book that you just grabbed. Theres a photograph of all the students in the class and i find it really good to see their faces. Another thing i want to point out when you pick up your copy of cage, theres in addition to the wonderful introduction by boris, dont miss the section called play wrights on the inside and play wrights
On about books, we delve into the latest news about the Publishing Industry with interesting insider interviews with Publishing Industry experts. Well also give you updates on current nonfiction authors and books, the latest book reviews, and well talk about the current nonfiction books featured on cspans book tv. Welcome to the about books podcast and program. Joining us in just a few minutes is regional dwayne bett, hes an author and founder of an organization that provides books for incarcerated people. But first, heres a look at one social media phenomenon taking the Publishing Industry by storm. Its called book talk. Its where users of the social media site tiktok record themselves reviewing, reacting to or even acting out books, and then they post the videos using the booktok. Book tok began during the pandemic. Today more than 11 million book tok videos exist with over 60 billion, with a b, views. Heres just one recent example. Telling you if its worth the hype. Yes. Deals with
For incarcerated people. But first, heres a look at one social media phenomenon taking the Publishing Industry by storm. Its called book talk. Its where users of the social media site tiktok record themselves reviewing, reacting to or even acting out books, and then they post the videos using the booktok. Book tok began during the pandemic. Today more than 11 million book tok videos exist with over 60 billion, with a b, views. Heres just one recent example. Telling you if its worth the hype. Yes. Deals with more than romance. We get it. Youre short. Opened up my perspective on relationships, no. Way too long and repettific. So much fun, yes. Good but not as much as everyone says. Yes. Love isnt always a happy ending. Now, according to a New York Times story, book tok helped authors sell 20 million print books last year. And book sellers are certainly taking notice of the sales potential. Barnes and noble partnered with tiktok for what it calls the book tok challenge. Readers are encour
At 16 he was imprisoned for a carjacking. With time on his hands, he began writing. Now an accomplished poet, playwright, attorney and MacArthur Fellow, Dwayne Betts has also founded a non-profit that provides libraries to inmates.