The Charles Taylor Foundation, a charity organization that supports Canadian writers, gave a cheery explanation for why a literary prize it’s been co-sponsoring for two decades is coming to an end next year: they accomplished exactly what they’d set out to Read more >
Depending on who you are, this news that a doll museum will open in a formerly vacant library building is either kind of cool or will give you endless nightmares—that is, if you ever sleep again. I’m in the second Read more >
The 2019 National Book Awards—aka the Oscars for books—have officially been awarded! This year’s winners are as follows: Young People’s Literature: Martin W. Sandler for 1919, The Year That Changed America. * Poetry: Arthur Sze for Sight Lines. * Translation: Laszlo Read more >
Perhaps you’re already aware that tonight is the National Book Awards, AKA “the biggest night in books,” AKA book prom, AKA the night of a thousand tote bags (just kidding! It’s very fancy). Tonight’s event will be hosted by LeVar Read more >
Climate Emergency noun [C usually singular]: “A situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it” Before you say it, I know, and I am as appalled Read more >
The one-mile stretch of upscale London real estate known as “Billionaires Row” isn’t quite Savile. As Business Insider recently revealed, one of the properties in this neighborhood, at 9 The Bishops Avenue, was once the safe house of British-Indian author Read more >
If you like social networking but find that the traditional platforms aren’t metaphysical enough for your taste, have I got an app for you. Actually, has Czech poet Lukas Sedlacek got an app for you. It’s called Poetizer, and it’s Read more >
In honor of the great LeVar Burton—reader, actor, Renaissance man, and host of tonight’s 70th-Annual National Book Awards—here’s our GIF-based preview of how his night will probably go. * 6:30pm Enters with entourage. via GIPHY 6:35pm Inspects (and approves) the Read more >
In Publishers Weekly, Sally Lodge reports that HarperCollins Children’s Books will be launching a new imprint “devoted to publishing books by Native creators that introduce young Native protagonists and showcase the present and future of Indian Country.” Heartdrum is currently Read more >
Random House announced today that they’ve acquired the rights to a series of books based on the New York Times Magazine’s extraordinarily popular “1619 Project,” which interrogates received perspectives on four centuries of slavery in America through essays, stories, histories, Read more >
Social historian Hallie Rubenhold has won The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for her book The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. The Five reconstructs the lives of five of the women killed by Read more >
Ian Williams, winner of this year’s $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his debut novel Reproduction, began his acceptance speech Monday night with an emotional tribute. “Margaret Atwood over there is the first book I bought with my own money at Read more >
Every week, the TBR pile grows a little bit more. It’s getting precarious. It’s taking up your whole nightstand. It’s threatening to crush you in your sleep. Well, what are you waiting for? Get cracking. What are you reading this Read more >
Andy Ward has been named a new vice president and publisher at Random House. Formerly editor in chief, Ward moves into the spot long held by the beloved Susan Kamil, who died in September. Ward has edited the likes of Read more >
Earlier this month, Martin Scorsese sparked a firestorm of online “discourse” when he wrote in the New York Times that Disney’s Marvel franchise films were “closer to theme parks than they are to movies.” The fanboys of the world (aka Read more >
There are a lot of ideas out there about how a person should become a writer: you can get an MFA or dive into the world of NYC publishing or even light out on the road to suck the very Read more >
After “years of chasing [it],” the Brontë Society has at last acquired the last in a series of very tiny books that Charlotte Brontë wrote in 1830, when she was 14. The Society paid €600,000 for the book at auction, Read more >
It’s true. The wonderfully unlikely collaboration between the world’s most famous boxer and the “elderly queen mother of American letters”—which was orchestrated by sports n’ literature hybridist extraordinaire George Plimpton—took place in a Manhattan restaurant in the winter of 1967, Read more >
Photo © Stephen Collector. This past Sunday, artist Russell Chatham, a self-taught landscape painter and writer whose work was prized by Hollywood luminaries, among others, died in Northern California at the age of 80. In 1978, approaching the height of Read more >
Apparently, an incredibly immature person has been hiding books in the Idaho public library that they don’t want the general public to read. Some of the books have simply been turned around so the spine can’t be read (a very Read more >
