Exciting adaptation news: A24 and Rhombus Media have optioned the rights to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, Nguyen’s Pulitzer-winning debut novel about a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who serves as a communist double agent after the fall of Saigon. The Read more >
I’ve always been a fan of Tom Waits. But I was a huge fan of Tom Waits in my late teens and early twenties when his whiskey-soaked romanticism, all burnt-out and busted, was soundtrack to my fantasies of life on Read more >
The Folio Society‘s latest publication is a massive edition of all 118 of Philip K. Dick’s short stories, presented in this shockingly bright four-volume set. Their edition of The Complete Short Stories was designed by independent studio La Boca and Read more >
It’s been a month since the release of Cherry, the big-budget adaptation of Nico Walker’s debut novel-from-life about an Iraq veteran turned heroin addict turned bank robber. Incredibly, Cherry (the book), lauded as a “miracle of literary serendipity” and “epic Read more >
Ah, the Yorkshire moors of Wuthering Heights. Windy, winding, dangerous, dark, and oh so very moody. (Just like Heathcliff’s soul! Argh!) Or at least they used to be. Now the landscape that inspired Emily Brontë’s classic romance is a common Read more >
And it’s about damn time. Yes, the former Nirvana drummer and current Foo Fighters frontman is, after 30 wildly successful, gloriously maned years in the business, putting it all down on paper. Earlier today, Dey Street Books announced that they Read more >
Deesha Philyaw has won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her debut short story collection The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. The collection was chosen for this year’s prize by judges Charles Finch, Bernice L. McFadden, and Alexi Zentner, Read more >
Craving some new Lord of the Rings-related media? While you wait for the Amazon Prime series, have a laugh and watch this 30-year-old television adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring, courtesy of Russian channel 5TV. The 1991 film aired once, Read more >
Your Tuesday book news of note: Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton author Elizabeth Strout has a new novel set for publication. Here’s the description of Oh William!, out from Random House on October 19: Oh William! . Read more >
Today would have been the 104th birthday of everyone’s favorite surrealist painter-cum-novelist, Leonora Carrington. To celebrate, I recommend spending your lunch break watching Leonora Carrington and the House of Fear (1992), a documentary based around a trip to Carrington’s Mexico Read more >
Last year, when New York City was the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in America, Bradley Tusk and Howard Wolfson decided to create a new annual award, the Gotham Book Prize, as part of an effort to “honor New York Read more >
There are a few things in this life that we are told we can be certain of: death, taxes, blah blah. Also someone once said that the sun will come up tomorrow. (Sure.) You know what else is guaranteed though? Read more >
There’s much to celebrate at the moment: it’s spring, vaccinations are becoming widely available, Cadbury Cream Eggs are steeply discounted at Walgreen’s… But in case you’re still looking for a way to quiet your racing mind, may I recommend Oral Read more >
Today, the Cleveland Foundation announced the winners of its 86th Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, an annual prize that recognizes “books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures.” The Read more >
Today, the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers announced its new class of Fellows, selected from a pool of 506 applicants from 48 countries. The class of 2021 is as follows: Academics: Read more >
N+1 has announced a new fiction prize in honor of n+1 contributor and brilliant short story writer Anthony Veasna So, who died in 2020. The newly established Anthony Veasna So Fiction Prize is an annual $5,000 award granted to a Read more >
Kaitlyn Greenidge’s Libertie, Sharon Stone’s The Beauty of Living Twice, Melissa Febos’ Girlhood, and Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Little Devil in America all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes Read more >
On April 23, “one of the most important collections of illuminated manuscripts and early prints to have appeared at auction” will go on sale at Christie’s. This collection, the private collection of late philanthropists and collectors Elaine and Alexandre P. Read more >
Last night, the Cuomo administration finally released documents to The Buffalo News regarding Governor Andrew Cuomo’s book American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic. Buffalo News reports that they requested the documents in August 2020; the administration had blamed Read more >
Money is like sex. Everybody wants it, most people have it, and nobody wants to talk about it. This resistance to transparency also applies to publishing (which is otherwise not like sex): Aside from last year’s brief flurry of #PublishingPaidMe Read more >
