AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoPublishing & Culture: A new book spotlighting Jewish football history, Digging Deep: Unearthing the Stories of Eleven Murdered Jewish Footballing Greats, is being discussed alongside the World Cup’s Ronaldo-vs-Messi narrative, with author David Bolchover reflecting on how Shoah-era persecution erased a whole sporting culture. Books & Reading Trends: A UK “romantasy” shop, Bad Girl Books, is drawing queues as fantasy-romance keeps turning into a mainstream publishing force—an angle that will resonate with Italy’s genre-hungry readers. Italian Arts & Memoir: Vincent Coppola’s memoir Gowanus Crossing: A Brooklyn Boyhood revisits a vanished immigrant Brooklyn through literature and journalism, offering a model for how place-based storytelling travels. Environment & Science: Research suggests Adriatic bottlenose dolphins are increasingly scavenging by trailing overfished trawlers—an ecosystem warning that echoes the “what we read about nature” conversation. Media Law: Denmark backs Belgium in an EU court fight over how platforms pay press publishers, with the case linked to the same right at the heart of Italy-related publisher-pay disputes.
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