At the close of one of the wildest, most hotly-contested rights auctions in recent memory—in which 17 different bidders duked it out for the film and TV rights to Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half—HBO has emerged victorious. The streaming giant will pay Read more >
This week, on Australian radio show The History Listen, producer Rosa Ellen asked fellow fans of Bulgakov’s novel to unpack its particular magic and enduring genius. One of those fans is Baz Luhrmann, who is producing an adaptation of the Master and Margarita.">Read more >
Somehow Fourth of July weekend is upon us. While you might not be spending it the way you usually do (big family barbecue, a day at the beach, crammed in the crowds trying to watch the Macy’s show), we do Read more >
For over 50 years, the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses has been an amazing resource and megaphone for small presses and publications. CLMP has just announced the winners of their sixth annual Firecracker Awards, which celebrates the best independently Read more >
JK Rowling deleted praise of Stephen King on Twitter and I really want out of this timeline. Rowling’s insistence on “debating” the right of trans people to exist is exhausting and hurtful, and is perhaps best summed up here, by Read more >
Over the weekend, the winners for this year’s Locus Awards were announced. For a little otherworldly, escapist fiction, read on! (Also, can we talk about this rocket-shaped trophy? The winners must be over the moon!) * SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL Charlie Read more >
During a virtual town hall last night, as a group of four friends were discussing what it was like to work as people of color in publishing, I thought of the things I’d valued blindly in elementary and high school, Read more >
If you haven’t read “The Lottery” lately, there’s never been a better time—especially if you, like me, enjoy feeling like you’re hearing your favorite dead writers weigh in on world events. Tomorrow is also the day the story’s titular lottery Read more >
One year after the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia (and a full year before the New York Times decided it was a good idea to publish an excerpt from Der Führer’s poisonous opus), celebrated writer, literary critic, and vocal opponent of totalitarianism Read more >
Violating the unspoken rule that one’s half-finished teenage stories should disappear forever, the Strand Magazine will publish an unfinished Louisa May Alcott draft that she began and abandoned in the late 1840s. Titled “Aunt Nellie’s Diary,” the draft, which is Read more >
The recent adaptation of Sally Rooney’s beloved bestseller Normal People ends, like the novel, on a bit of a cliffhanger: after years of on agains and off agains, Connell gets accepted to a writing program in New York, and Marianne Read more >
It was my best case scenario. Not only did Edward Vaughn pick up the phone, but he was willing and eager to speak. At 85 years old, he had way more energy than me, 60 years his junior, when I Read more >
A host of writers (UK and otherwise) are making public calls for Lady Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne to be removed from her vice president position at the Booker Foundation because of her consistently homophobic and transphobic views. Damian Barr, Marlon Read more >
Based purely on his excellent name, I assume Merlin Sheldrake was voted Most Likely to Write a Book About How Fungi Changed the World in high school. And, if you had any doubt that Sheldrake is committed to his brand, Read more >
When he’s not watching the NFL draft or buying historic railway stations, George R.R. Martin has spent the pandemic writing… a lot. Martin wrote on his blog that as he spends his time isolated in “an actual cabin in the mountains,” Read more >
You know what we could probably use in 2020? Some Don DeLillo. Lucky for us, Scribner has just announced plans to publish DeLillo’s next novel, The Silence, on October 20, 2020. The publisher describes it as “a novel about five Read more >
In 1995, Digital Diaspora, a organization based in the UK, hosted “40 Acres and a Microchip,” a conference that gathered Black writers and intellectuals to discuss the future of digital technology. Octavia Butler, who would have turned 73 this week, Read more >
We never really got over the typewriter. Yes, we have shiny laptops now that weigh less than two pounds apiece, sleek machines that allow you to write as much as you want, that can eradicate your mistakes at the touch Read more >
As libraries begin to reopen around the country, patrons are excited to get back to borrowing books—but they’re also still nervous about COVID-19, which is understandable. At least some of them have been “getting creative” in their attempts to protect Read more >
I purchased an independent bookstore in Salisbury, North Carolina just six months ago, after taking leave from my career as a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State. After tours in Afghanistan, India, and other cities overseas, I Read more >
