Since 1988, the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism has been shining a light on journalists who call attention to vital current events or societal issues. The titles up for consideration this year tackle Read more >
Is your temperature starting to rise? Been feeling achy lately? Could be a return of Ferrante Fever. The second season of HBO’s gorgeous, luxuriously slow adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet will be premiering on March 16th—and in the meantime, Read more >
Never meet your heroes, kids. I’ve got sad news for you. Turns out, Ben Jonson, the renowned Elizabethan playwright and the first poet laureate of England, was a murderer. On September 22nd, 1598, when he was an (angry) young man Read more >
Are you the parent of a child with an unfortunate predilection for picking their nose or robbing other people’s orchards? If so, help has arrived in the form of some centuries-old, recently digitized books, now available on the British Library’s Read more >
The door of Los Angeles’ newest bookstore is propped open on a quiet section of Hollywood Boulevard, the front window displaying books on a handmade wooden bookshelf. Inside the front room, you’ll find more books and merchandise below a neon Read more >
Finally, the one true pivot we’ve all been waiting for… to books! Flatiron announced yesterday that they’ll be launching an imprint called Stuff You Should Read: An iHeart Book, which will turn popular iHeart Radio podcasts into books (which will Read more >
Congratulations to the finalists for the annual Nebula Awards! Presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, these awards have been celebrating writers working in the genres for the past fifty-five years. (Past recipients include N. K. Jemisin Read more >
Books are very, very useful, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise I’ve heard of people using them as purses and safes, doorstoppers and vases, wallpaper and even, uh, a bit of kindling. In addition to interior edification, books have Read more >
Have you ever listened to one of your favorite albums on repeat, gotten lost in the sweeping, cinematic feel of it, knew it so well that you began picturing it as a narrative, filled in the details missing from the Read more >
There’s a new trailer for Little Fires Everywhere, the upcoming Hulu miniseries based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 novel, to get us through the next three weeks until its premiere on March 18. The story of interconnected family dramas in a Cleveland Read more >
Last night, I was in my third hour of binge-watching The Bold Type when I stumbled upon an ad that made me do a double-take. The ad was for Amazon Storefronts, a section launched in 2018 as a way for Read more >
This month, science fiction fans and Solaris lovers everywhere have cause to celebrate: six newly-illustrated editions of work by the late Polish author Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) are being published by The MIT Press. Lem’s influence on science fiction has been compared to Read more >
This morning, I received a marketing email from cool athleisure brand Outdoor Voices, advertising a nice looking set of Cotton Terry Sweats and telling me I should buy them because they are simple, and Henry David Thoreau advocated simplicity. Sure, Read more >
The global creep of fascism continues apace with news of German far-right party AfD (Alternative for Germany) distributing racist coloring books at a rally last weekend. And lest you dismiss the AfD as a bunch of fringe asshats (I mean, Read more >
The Authors Guild, whose “mission is to support working writers,” and “advocate for the rights of writers by supporting free speech, fair contracts, and copyright” commissioned an in-depth look at what it means to be a professional writer in the Read more >
It’s hard to imagine how people wrote novels (or blog posts) before the advent of the cut and paste function. (Don’t @ me, Luddites.) Cut/paste is a gift to anyone who doesn’t necessarily want to kill every darling, but would Read more >
It’s an exciting year for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes! This will be its 40th year of celebrating the literary community. The Times announced their 2019 Book Prize finalists today; the winners will be announced at a ceremony in Read more >
Is there anything LeBron James can’t do? Before you attempt to form a response, let me save you some time; the answer, of course, is no. Case in point: HarperCollins yesterday announced a two-book deal with the LeBron James Foundation. James’ Read more >
Early retirements, compassion fatigue, and burnout: these are the issues that are currently affecting public librarians as they attempt to take on the work of caring for their visitors’ mental health as well as their day-to-day jobs, according to School Read more >
From the archives: a clip from Ship’s Reporter, a talk show that aired from 1948-1952, in which Jack Mangan interviews Carson McCullers about The Member of the Wedding. . . on a ship. At the beginning of the interview, McCullers Read more >
