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Slate just set about creating a canon of major nonfiction books, by naming The 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years. Staggered...

Thanks to everyone who voted Parkland into the semi-finals of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Nonfiction of 2019. The downside: I ask for you to vote again. I appreciate the votes, shares, tweets, etc. Thanks. This round ends tonight at midnight pacific time. I learned you can vote 3 times: once per round, per category. Please use them all. Thanks! https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-nonfiction-books-2019

So, good news and bad news, since I've been insanely busy book touring and haven't attended to my blog. The good news: Parkland : Birth of a Movement, was longlisted last month for a really prestigious award: the American Library Association's Andrew Carnegie Medal for best nonfiction book of 2019. How cool was that? The year-end awards are just beginning, and gratifying to see Parkland in the mix. Even more cool: I was nominated alongside Toni Morrison! Unfortunately, th

Parkland: Birth of a Movement was nominated as Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 in the Goodreads Choice Awards . Please help by voting in the first round! And posting on social media, or asking friends, etc. Teachers who have used the book, please consider asking your students. This is a huge thing for books. Goodreads has 90 million users--all book lovers. The voting starts with 15 nominees per category, and 3 rounds of voting. Round 1 runs now through Sunday (Nov 10). Y

Motherless Brooklyn is now one of my four favorite books written in my adult lifetime--joining Jesus' Son, Visit from the Goon Squad, and...

I'm going to keep updating this post as a clearinghouse for many of the best interviews, excerpts, media appearances and reviews. Also: Parkland book tour dates/info . Reviews: Washington Post: ' Why Parkland, a year later, is a story of hope .' This review is my favorite. Amazing. The Atlantic: Dave Cullen's New Book on the Parkland Shooting Is Surprisingly Illuminating Chicago Tribune: Parkland changed everything Meeting 9-year-old Matheo in Tucson: Arizona Daily

The Washington Post somehow burrowed into my head, rooted around for all the things I was trying to accomplish in Parkland: Birth of a Movement, and published it as a review this weekend. And the writer, Jill Filipovic , did it in such gorgeous, eloquent prose, I was stunned. Her opening sentence: Here is a sentence you would not expect in a review of a book on one of the country’s most notorious school shootings: “ Parkland ” by Dave Cullen is one of the most uplifting

OK, first look at Parkland: Birth of a Movement. We chose Buzzfeed news the first exclusive Parkland excerpt and it's their lead story this weekend. Please share the link! Thank you. The book comes out Tuesday. I'm eager to hear what everyone thinks. Update: another post coming on all these, but links quickly: NPR Weekend Edition The Guardian (cover story of the book section, Review) BBC Radio 4, "Parkland: One Year On" (with me as "presenter")

What a relief that the reviews are coming in positive. Booklist just gave Parkland a starred review*, opening: Cullen, the author of the...

This book launch has already been a bit of a thrill, but the biggest surprise so far came this week. AppleBooks created a special feature of " 10 Authors to Read in 2019 ," with a mix of some classics--Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch and Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad --and some new voices. And me! For Parkland : Birth of a Movement. I wasn't sure what to make of it, but the Harper people were stunned, and said, Yeah, it's a big deal. So woohoo. I'm happy. Publicat