After more than two and a half years of negotiations with Condé Nast and a threatened strike, members of the New Yorker Union have unanimously voted to ratify their first collective bargaining agreement. Just some of the significant changes the Read more >
On this day in 1965, the highly acclaimed writer and teacher Chang-rae Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea. When he was three years old, Lee and his family immigrated to the United States. Later, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy Read more >
Well, this is kind of heartwarming. A full quarter-century after shuttering his old store in Bloomington, Indiana, Rick Morgenstern has opened what suddenly becomes the state’s largest independent bookstore. The reboot of the eponymous store has been in the works Read more >
Exciting book news: Detransition, Baby author Torrey Peters’s novellas Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker, previously published online in 2016 and available for free on her author website, will be reissued by Random House in 2022. Two Read more >
On this day in 1866, Beatrix Potter—beloved children’s author, creator of Peter Rabbit (along with his slightly more rabbitly named sisters Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail), and passionate naturalist who once told Roald Dahl to “buzz off”—was born. In the unlikely Read more >
Writers who eschew traditional publishing methods have a variety of platforms from which to choose: Substack, Patreon, Blogspot, NFTs, and now, the moon. This year, speculative fiction author Susan Kaye Quinn launched (pun intended) Writers on the Moon, a lunar Read more >
A recent update to a story I can’t believe everyone isn’t talking about every day: the U.S. Department of Justice has formally seized the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet (a cuneiform tablet inscribed with part of the Epic of Gilgamesh) from Hobby Read more >
Ah, the Enneagram. It’s the lesser-known but (in my humble opinion) far superior personality test. Unlike the Meyers-Briggs, which honestly offers different verdicts based on your mood and which I’m told you “should” re-take from time to time, the Enneagram Read more >
Today, the National Book Foundation announced that this year’s National Book Awards Ceremony will be held in person, at Cipriani Wall Street on November 17, 2021. Proof of vaccination will be required for guests, and the ceremony will also be Read more >
O Sport, pleasure of the Gods, essence of life, you appeared suddenly in the midst of the grey clearing which writhes with the drudgery of modern existence, like the radiant messenger of a past age, when mankind still smiled. And Read more >
Today marks the 105th birthday of the late Elizabeth Hardwick, sweeping, incisive critic, novelist and short story writer. Festively revisiting her 1985 Art of Fiction interview in The Paris Review, I was pleased but unsurprised to see her response to Read more >
Earlier this month, author MA Sieghart revealed in The Guardian that, according to statistics she commissioned from Nielsen Book Research, the top 10 best-selling female authors’ readership is only 19% men. The top 10 best-selling male authors’ readership is much Read more >
Really big book news! Frida Kahlo. The Complete Paintings, a really big book that includes all of the artist’s 152 paintings, as well as pages from her personal diary, letters, photos, and an illustrated biography, is coming in September. According Read more >
Deadline reported yesterday that A24 has won the rights to Octavia E. Butler’s beloved cult classic Parable of the Sower, which finally made the New York Times bestseller list last fall. Critically acclaimed documentary director Garrett Bradley (Time) is set Read more >
It seems like we just got done celebrating the 2020 Booker Prize winner, but it’s already that time again: the “Booker Dozen” has been announced. The 13 books longlisted for this year’s Booker, the UK’s most prestigious prize for a Read more >
How are you doing, friend? Need a hug? Need a distraction? Need to learn something new? Need an escape from your everyday life? Look no further. New books are here for you. * Matthew Specktor, Always Crashing in the Same Read more >
Haruki Murakami’s writing has inspired many creatives’ own practices, from visual artists to video game designers to filmmakers to other writers. And hopefully we’ll be seeing yet another artist-turned-Murakami-enthusiast: Joe Jonas has revealed he’s been reading Murakami as he works Read more >
This past week, the New York Community Trust announced the 2021 winners of its Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, chosen by a committee of theater professionals. The award, one of the nation’s most significant prizes for playwrights, is named after Read more >
A century from now, when the Autonomous Underwater City State of Key West has defeated the last of its subaqueous rivals for control of What Was Once Florida (WWOF) you can be sure they will celebrate with yet another Ernest Read more >
Garth Greenwell has (wisely, well-adjustedly) left Twitter, but last night he logged back on to share the “mindblowing & moving & surreal” experience of hearing his novel What Belongs to You, the monologue of an American teacher abroad entering a Read more >
