John Cleese doesn’t know much about American bookstores but nonetheless feels confident to tweet about the subject. Looking at the bookshops where you can buy Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Bomber, I see that some States offer only one bookshop: Nebraska, N Read more >
I love it when the rights to a single short story are acquired for adaptation. Hearing the news never fails to bring a smile to my face. I imagine the writer’s incredulity when their agent calls to say: Hey, remember Read more >
Today, Viking announced that this year—which happens to markthe 60th anniversary of the publication of John le Carré’s first novel, Call for the Dead—they will publish the beloved writer’s twenty-sixth, and probably very last, novel, Silverview. Silverview will be released Read more >
This past year has brought a groundswell of labor activism—including in bookselling, where a number of stores have voted in favor of unionizing as a way of securing fair wages and treatment for workers. Below is an ongoing list of Read more >
Booksellers at Los Angeles’s indie bookstore Skylight Books announced today that they have unionized. The Skylight Bookseller Union will be affiliated with the over-700,000-member Communications Workers of America Union. Wrote the Skylight Bookseller Union on Instagram, “The booksellers of Skylight Read more >
What do we talk about when we talk about limericks? When we consider the limerick, we might think of our elementary school poetry unit, or Edward Lear, who popularized the form in the 19th century with A Book of Nonsense, Read more >
In today’s IRL episode of Black Mirror, we are introduced to an app called NewNew, designed by an LA-based entrepreneur named Courtne Smith, and described as “a human stock market where you buy shares in the lives of real people, Read more >
Talk about not resting on your laurels: yesterday’s Publishers Weekly deals roundup slipped in the news that Jhumpa Lahiri has teamed up with Princeton classics professor Yelena Baraz on a new translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses that highlights “transformation, loss of Read more >
For forty years, BOMB has been publishing artist-to-artist dialogues in print and online—and last year, they brought these artist conversations into a new medium by launching FUSE: A BOMB Podcast. We’re happy to announce that Season 2 of FUSE premieres Read more >
You know that song that goes, “I don’t care if Monday’s blue, Tuesday’s gray and Wednesday too?” Well, apparently The Cure has never heard of a little thing we like to call New Books Tuesday (or NewBoosDay, if you will). Read more >
Today in 1893 was the first performance of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play Pelléas and Mélisande, which was met with modest praise from his peers and confusion from critics. Little did Maeterlinck know that the then-unassuming Pelléas and Mélisande would lay the Read more >
Today, Poets & Writers announced that Carl Phillips has won the 2021 Jackson Poetry Prize, awarded annually by Poets & Writers to an American poet of exceptional talent. The Prize comes with an unrestricted award of $75,000 to provide winners Read more >
As the Associated Press reported this morning, Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth: The Biography has a new publisher: Skyhorse Publishing. Skyhorse will release the e-book and audio editions of Philip Roth: The Biography by Wednesday, and the paperback edition on June Read more >
It’s true. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, F. Scott Fitzgerald was the first to use the term “T-shirt” in print; it appeared in This Side of Paradise in 1920, as part of a packing list: So early in September Read more >
Great news the Jane-ites who are hungry for more than just sharp Regency-era social commentary: you’ll soon be able to prepare Jane Austen’s favorite dishes, including “Toasted Cheese.” (It’s made with egg and mustard, and honestly, given how much suet Read more >
At this weekend’s annual conference of Biographers International Organization, A.N. Wilson’s The Mystery of Charles Dickens (HarperCollins) was awarded the BIO Plutarch Award—an award celebrating the best biography of the last year published in English, as chosen from nominations received Read more >
You never quite realize what’s special about where you grew up until you’ve been away for awhile: it has taken me 20 years—as a Canadian living abroad—to appreciate the degree to which there is, in fact, a very particular and Read more >
There are many—nay, infinite—ways in which writers are nothing like K-Pop superstars… HOWEVER, maybe we can take some small solace from the fact that human megahit-machine Bang Chan (of Stray Kids and 3RACHA) runs into bouts of writers’ block just Read more >
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s On Grief, Stacey Abrams’ While Justice Sleeps, Edmund de Waal’s Letters to Camondo, and Emily Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Read more >
Here’s something weird and wonderful from way back when: alt-rock icon, occasional indie movie actress, and Hole frontwoman Courtney Love, at the tender age of eleven, tried out for a role on the on the 1977 Mickey Mouse Club—the second Read more >
