This morning, Publishers Marketplace reported that two-time Booker Prize winner and historical fiction supremo Hilary Mantel has a new short story collection on the horizon. Learning to Talk, which will be released by Holt at some point next year, is Read more >
We already love Dolly Parton, not just for her powerhouse songwriting and iconic hair but also for her championing of American literacy—her Imagination Library sends over 1 million free books per month (that’s one book every two seconds!) to children Read more >
The Accumulate Art School for the Homeless, a London-based charity that provides creative education and workshops for young homeless people, has partnered with unhoused artists to create a new graphic novel called The Book of Homelessness. The project began with Read more >
Dust off your formal wear and break out the bubbly because the National Book Awards (a.k.a. the Oscars of the book world) are nearly upon us. Yes, in just a few short hours, five dumbstruck authors will be fêted, garlanded, Read more >
Today, the Andy Warhol Foundation announced the 22 recipients of its Arts Writers Grant, which recognizes the invaluable contribution of arts writers to visual artistic culture. The Grant supports both emerging and established writers of articles, books, or short-form writing, with awards Read more >
If you find yourself bored as the new lockdown hits, consider taking a leaf out of William and Catherine Blake’s book, and doing a naked reading of Paradise Lost with your roommates. The Blakes’ strange leisure activities live on through Read more >
Apparently, this week is the Super Bowl for the book world (or at least the book world media). Which means you need to do two things to prepare: assemble your snacks (check) and place your bets. Six novels are up Read more >
As many on this side of the pond may not know, Manchester United and England footballer Marcus Rashford is currently all that stands between the United Kingdom and compete moral ruination. In a year where a particularly grotesque grotesquerie of Read more >
Samuel Goldwyn Films has released a new trailer for Modern Persuasion, a—you guessed it—modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. The romantic comedy stars Twin Peaks and Friday Night Lights actress Alicia Witt as Wren Cosgrove, a “workaholic who…finds herself coming Read more >
Professionals, rejoice? A new app verbosely called “The 12Min Micro Book Library” is trying to optimize your reading time. According to a depressing pitch from PCMag, the 12Min Micro Book Library “takes . . . game-changing books . . . Read more >
Let’s start our morning right with the latest book news. Today, the American Library Association announced the shortlist of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, which honors the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers Read more >
Hello and welcome to the very niche readership who understands what I am talking about and why I am excited and amused by this! The rumors (from this headline) are true: Principal Snyder, also known as Armin Shimerman, has recently Read more >
We’ve got a star-studded stack of new books today, folks! To name a few: President Barack Obama’s memoir, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend creator and star Rachel Bloom’s musings, Julia Child’s culinary wisdom, and Steve Martin’s cartoon pigeons (???). You can get them Read more >
This morning, Publishers Marketplace reported the news of a brand new debut author hitting the literary scene with their very first novel. That author is Quentin Tarantino, and that novel is . . . Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Read more >
Terry McMillan broke the most exciting literary adaptation news of the month on Friday afternoon when she tweeted this to her 263k followers: So, WAITING TO EXHALE is going to be a TV series. Produced by Lee Daniels. Attica Locke Read more >
In 1992, José Saramago, who would have been 98 years old today, left his native Portugal for Lanzarote, an island in the Canaries, and a house which he famously described as “a house made of books.” As the story goes, it Read more >
Recently, scholars unearthed a trove of unpublished love poems by Anthony Burgess—and, as it turns out, a few hate poems too. In one of the newly discovered verses, “A Sonnet for the Emery Collegiate Institute,” Burgess gleefully insults A Clockwork Read more >
Some sad news this morning for all the poetry lovers out there: Poets House announced today it would suspend operations effective immediately, “due to budgetary issues caused by the Coronavirus.” Lee Briccetti, who has led Poets House as executive director Read more >
Every morning I get up and do my morning pages, by which I mean read my morning pages, by which I mean read the one long page that is my Twitter feed. So recently I’ve started subscribing to newsletters, so Read more >
In quarantine, some of us have more time on our hands than others—maybe none more so than the anonymous architect-cum-political critic who has taken the time to digitally render their take on the Trump presidential library. The library serves as Read more >
