As the public gets vaccinated, bookstores are beginning to reopen, and booksellers have been able to rekindle their relationships with their most devoted customers. For Brattle Book Shop owner Ken Gloss, the reopening process of his Boston-based used and rare Read more >
A lot of people on the internet claim to have forgotten how to dress in the past year, and while I think this is largely obnoxious late-pandemic performance (the Times Style section thanks you for your service), I still feel called Read more >
I was doing something perfectly domestic yesterday—possibly the dishes—when suddenly I heard Margaret Atwood’s voice on the radio reading a sexy poem about cicadas. Atwood is roughly of an age and class and place with my late mother and her Read more >
This month, New Directions is celebrating their 85th birthday; the festivities will kick off this week with “a night of poetry and remembrances” featuring Will Alexander, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Susan Howe, Sylvia Legris, Nathaniel Mackey, Fred Moten, Michael Palmer, Elliot Weinberger, Read more >
Literary Hub is excited to report that Graywolf’s new Executive Editor Yuka Igarashi has made her very first acquisition for the beloved independent press: a new novel by Lucy Ives called Life is Everywhere, which is currently scheduled to be Read more >
Dear reader, I hope this list finds you well-rested and ready to read. We’ve got an almost intimidating amount of exciting new titles coming our way today! * Kristen Arnett, With Teeth (Riverhead) “[A] hilarious and astute dive into the Read more >
Struggling with pandemic-induced writer’s block? You’re not alone—and better yet, you’re about to be cured! According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, mystery and historical author Ona Russell found an unconventional fix for her own writing woes: a tent. Placing a Read more >
Exciting news for fans of the Tony- and Emmy-winning actor: Canongate has just announced they are set to publish Alan Cumming’s “seriously entertaining” new memoir, Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life, in October 2021. Where Cumming’s previous memoir, Not Read more >
Last week in a virtual ceremony at StokerCon, the Horror Writers Association announced the winners of this year’s Bram Stoker Award, which is named after Dracula author Bram Stoker and honors “superior achievement” in horror and dark fiction published in Read more >
If there’s any industry that would voluntarily organize to give up a percentage of its profits to its “suppliers,” it’s booksellers. Starting in October, reports The Guardian, a collective of used bookstores in the UK will be paying royalties to Read more >
Here’s an incredible archival project you might not know about: Reveal Digital is partnering with academic and public libraries to fund an expanding, open access collection of American prison newspapers. “American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices From The Inside” is collecting Read more >
Another tally mark on the Something Nice Is Actually Fake cave wall of the Internet: the heartwarming quote from beloved children’s author and illustrator Eric Carle making the rounds online yesterday is actually a six-year-old April Fool’s joke. And yet Read more >
Rachel Cusk’s Second Place, Joan Silber’s Secrets of Happiness, Alison Bechdel’s The Secret to Superhuman Strength, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Notes on Grief all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Read more >
It’s officially Memorial Day weekend, AKA the unofficial start of summer, and I am feeling very much like I should be sipping a fruity drink on a hot porch somewhere, listening to sunny earworms and tanning my feet, as somewhere Read more >
In the opening pages of José Saramago’s 1995 novel Blindness, a man is driving home when he suddenly goes blind. The blindness has no apparent cause, physical or otherwise—but it quickly reveals itself to be contagious: soon everyone who was Read more >
Yesterday, the National Coalition Against Censorship released a letter to the Board of Education of Columbus County Schools in Whiteville, North Carolina, condemning their position on restricting use of Laurin Mayeno’s children’s book One of a Kind, Like Me / Read more >
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