Steven Weinberg Journalist Profile

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Indigenous Artists Make Themselves Seen at the Thomas Cole Site

May 26, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Steven Weinberg

A former Brooklyn artist who has since moved to the Catskills, you can visit his website (stevenweinbergstudio.co) or follow him on Twitter (@steven_draws) for more information. And here's the link to... More by Steven Weinberg
Love Requires Chocolate (Love in Translation #1)

May 16, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Steven Weinberg |Hena Khan |Jade Adia

Ravynn K. Stringfield. Joy Revolution, $12.99 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-57154-5In a devourable debut, Stringfield cooks up a decadent romance between an ambitious Black American drama student and the pragmatic son of a Parisian chocolatier.
The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game #1)

May 8, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Jennifer Barnes |Steven Weinberg |Hena Khan

Sequestered contestants vie for millions in this fiendishly clever thriller, the first in a spinoff series from Barnes’s Inheritance Games saga. After a sprawling inaugural event, the second annual Grandest Game—a “mind-twisting” competition run by Tobias Hawthorne’s four grandsons and Avery Grambs, the teen who inherited the eccentric billionaire’s fortune—promises to be a more intimate affair.
Goodnight, School

May 8, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Steven Weinberg |Hena Khan |Jade Adia

Catherine Bailey, illus. by Cori Doerrfeld. Union Square, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4549-4854-4Bailey and Doerrfeld skillfully twine story lines in this loving after-hours tribute to a stalwart school building. Following a long day, the school is ready for some much-needed rest (“All the cubbies yawn,/ lined up, clean and neat.// Worksheets settle in./ Erasers are just beat”), and a pale-skinned night guard’s arrival signals the structure’s bedtime.
Sister Friend

May 8, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow |Matthew Burgess |Steven Weinberg

At her new school, every day is “play-by-herself day” for Ameena: “Was it the twists in her hair? Her brown skin? No one else in class had twists and brownness.” Ameena sees a possible companion in new student Sundus, portrayed with brown skin and wearing a lilac-hued hijab, but a well-meaning greeting goes awkwardly awry, and Ameena is called a copycat by classmates when she wears her own hijab to school in hopes of connecting with Sundus.
The First Week of School

May 8, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Drew Beckmeyer |Steven Weinberg |Hena Khan

Drew Beckmeyer. Atheneum, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-6659-4042-9A classroom’s first week launches a dynamic change in this inventive picture book. Monday reveals a clique of sports buffs (“They call themselves the SPORT KINGS, but nobody else does”), an artist worried about showing their work, an inventor frustrated with a malfunctioning satellite, a teacher buzzing on eight cups of pre-lunch coffee, and Pat, the class’s lonely bearded dragon.
How It All Ends

May 8, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Tillie Walden |Steven Weinberg |Hena Khan

How It All EndsThirteen-year-old Tara Gimmel believes that she can do anything. But when she’s enrolled in a “special academic program to challenge high-performing students” and promoted straight to high school, Tara is faced with a new, terrifying reality she doesn’t feel prepared for. She quickly learns that high school is nothing like the teen dramas she’s watched. Worse, when she encounters her older sister and best friend Isla at school, Isla adopts a persona Tara doesn’t recognize.