It was, I suppose, inevitable. Nancy Crampton Brophy, a self-published romance novelist and the author of an essay entitled “How to Murder Your Husband,” who has lately been on trial for . . . murdering her husband, has been convicted Read more >
Honestly, even if the rest of your week is terrible, at least today brings us new books from Lisa Taddeo, Ibram X. Kendi, Ada Calhoun, and more. What else could you want? * Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover (Avid Reader Press) Read more >
Today, Penguin Press released a book trailer (yes, they still exist!) for Ottessa Moshfegh’s much anticipated upcoming novel, Lapvona, which follows a deformed boy living in a depraved and corrupt medieval village. On the other hand, the trailer, directed by Read more >
That would be the advice of acclaimed American poet Mary Reufle, who—as tweeted by poet and director of Bennington College’s MFA program Mark Wunderlich yesterday—keeps this creepy decaying book in her yard to remind herself that all literature is vanity, and Read more >
America’s sad little homegrown fascist brigade, the Proud Boys (like the Brownshirts, but with less no sex!), have taken their victimhood/insecurity-driven agenda to new depths of idiocy (Proud? See image above.) This past Saturday a group of around ten men Read more >
America has its newest and coolest young librarian: 10-year-old Cora Newton of Lafayette, Louisiana, who decided she wanted to create a Little Queer Library after witnessing recent conversations in her area about banning LGBTQ books. Claire Taylor reported for the Read more >
If there was any justice in the world, we would give LeVar Burton, lifelong champion of reading, the last word on book bans. (There isn’t, of course, so we will have to continue writing about them any time some new Read more >
On Saturday, Lambda Literary announced the 24 winners of its 34th annual Lambda Literary Awards, chosen from more than 1,300 submissions and selected by more than 60 judges in the literary field. In addition to prizes in the categories below, Read more >
The most common entries for ‘x’ in alphabet books nowadays are probably ‘x-ray’ and ‘xylophone’—based on anecdotal evidence only, someone do this research please—but of course, it wasn’t always so. The x-ray was invented in 1895, and, as the editors Read more >
As we’ve noted over and over again, the hottest new book trend sweeping the country is to ban them and/or burn them if they don’t align with your weird, paleoconservative, theocratic prejudices. Not great! But as ever is the case Read more >
The Costa Book Awards, which was founded in 1971 and known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2005, is no more. Today, Costa Coffee announced that the 2021 Costa Book Awards, held in February 2022, would be the last iteration Read more >
Congratulations to PEN America‘s staff, who announced yesterday that they won voluntary recognition of their union! This milestone has been a long time coming. After months of organizing, they wrote to management to formally demand recognition last December and will Read more >
The beloved indie entertainment company A24—creators of Moonlight, Minari, Midsommar, and very cool merch—publishes their first children’s book today. Film buffs may recognize Claire A. Nivola’s Star Child as the book Joaquin Phoenix reads aloud to his nephew in C’mon C’mon (2021). The Read more >
A new play being staged in Kosovo’s capital of Pristina is taking on Peter Handke’s deeply troubling role in denying Serbian atrocities during the breakup of Yugoslavia. The Handke Project is a multinational, English-language production that puts the Austrian writer’s Read more >
This week, the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library promised to donate over 1,000 free copies of the author’s classic Slaughterhouse-Five to teachers and students in Brevard County, Florida, where the book is currently being challenged by the group Moms for Read more >
We’ve said it many, many times before and we’ll say it many, many times again: libraries represent the best of America. Today’s entry: the New York Public Library will give away 500,000 books this summer to help kids, teens, and Read more >
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