Back in 2019, months before our current plague swept the earth, an industrious librarian at the University of Bristol was leafing though a 16th-century book and found within its pages a few stray fragments of parchment handwritten in Old French. Read more >
When asked to think of ancient Greek poetry, high, lofty verse is top of mind. But classics professor Tim Whitmarsh has found a very different type of Greek poem: a rhythmic, cheeky love poem that made its way via inscription Read more >
Exciting news for both fans of Stephen King and free expression: today, the author—partnering with Humble Bundle, which helps content creators provide exclusive art to support charities—released a never-before-published short story online. “Red Screen” is the story of a cop Read more >
All delicious mac and cheese recipes are alike; each gross mac and cheese recipe is gross in its own way. Or something. I haven’t actually prepared Leo Tolstoy’s family recipe for macaroni and cheese, but it involves only one cheese Read more >
Several hours after publishing an interview with legendary theorist Judith Butler, the Guardian has deleted several paragraphs where Butler and interviewer Jules Gleeson critically discuss the gender critical “trans-exclusionary radical feminist” (TERF) movement, a right-wing ideology that opposes transgender rights Read more >
Today, the Whiting Foundation announced the five print and digital winners for its fourth annual Literary Magazine Prizes, which seek to acknowledge, reward and encourage the publications that are actively nurturing the writers who tell the public, through their art, Read more >
Books. Tote bags. Pencils. T-shirts. Bucket hats. Coffee trucks. Pop-up shops. And now, murals. Because why not? As The Bookseller reports, the aforementioned Sally Rooney pop-up shop, which opens tomorrow, will be accessed through a newly unveiled Sally Rooney pop-up mural, Read more >
Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi has won the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Since publishing her debut Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, now a cult classic, 17 years ago, Clarke has suffered from chronic illness, which made writing difficult. Accepting the £30,000 Read more >
To all my Trekkies out there: Happy Star Trek Day! This year marks the franchise’s 55th (!) anniversary. Created by Gene Rodenberry, the show made its official debut on September 8, 1966, on NBC. At the time, Roddenberry’s vision of Read more >
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a famous text in possession of many adaptations, must be in want of a jukebox musical. Good thing we’ve all universally acknowledged that—for this fall an all-female pop musical adaptation of Jane Austen’s Read more >
You didn’t think there were video games about novelists, did you? Well, there aren’t that many.* But there is Alan Wake. For the uninitiated, Alan Wake was an Xbox 360 exclusive created by Sam Lake for Remedy Entertainment—and by most accounts, one Read more >
Deadline announced this morning that The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis, a biopic about the life of the English writer and B.F.F. of J.R.R. Tolkien, who was most famous for The Chronicles Of Narnia, will be Read more >
This week is a doozy! There are new titles from Lauren Groff, Maggie Nelson, Sandra Cisneros, Simone de Beauvoir, Joy Harjo, and (in case you haven’t heard) Sally Rooney. Not to mention the slate of debut authors and small press Read more >
This week, The Moth, a quarterly printed arts and literature magazine, announced the winner of their 2021 short story prize, judged by Ali Smith: Janice Deal, for her short story “Lost City.” Deal’s debut novel, The Sound of Rabbits, is Read more >
This past Sunday marked the 61st anniversary of Léopold Sédar Senghor’s election as Senegal’s first democratic president, when the country gained independence from French colonial rule. And to honor the important day, I wanted to highlight Senghor’s role as a Read more >
Last year, Authors for Voices of Color, an initiative that “unites publishing professionals in the fight to dismantle systemic racism and elevate voices of color,” founded by Andrea Bartz and Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, raised over $14,000 for racial justice non-profits Read more >
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