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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

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

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

The first review just came in for Parkland : Birth of a Movement, and it's a starred review, from one of the 4 major advance-review pubs, Kirkus. The last time Kirkus awarded a star for nonfiction was Nov 1! That will be 3 months when its Parkland review appears in their Feb. 1 print edition. ( Just posted online .) Kirkus defines a starred review as: "Awarded to Books of Exceptional Merit." The opening clause made me happy: An incisive study of one of the past year's mo

Big day. What a sight. The first box of galleys arrived last Wednesday for Parkland: Birth of a Movement.* (Sorry, I was a bit slow...