Crossing Over

Penguin’s Berkley Books and Penguin Young Readers coming together to launch Berkley XO, a new imprint for fiction with adult-YA crossover appeal. We rounded up this month’s biggest book club picks, including selections by Oprah, Jenna Bush Hager, and more. Valerie Pierce will now head up the indie sales team at Sourcebooks, and Wiley has partnered with AI firm Anthropic on a pilot project to integrate AI into scholarly research. Apple will adapt Elissa Sussman’s rom-com Funny You Should Ask into a TV series with Regé-Jean Page attached to star, reports Deadline. Amid controversy over the veracity of Raynor Winn’s The Salt Path, Penguin UK has said it “undertook all due diligence” before releasing the bestselling book, per the BBC. The San Gabriel Valley Tribune spotlights how Southern California bookstores are banding together to support immigrants amid growing fears about ICE raids. Vox weighs in on the literacy crisis among young readers—and wonders just how much of a crisis it really is. The Guardian talks with dismayed translators about a buzzy new AI translation service for fiction writers and publishers in the U.K. And children’s book publisher Katie Cunningham has died at 43.