Congratulations to Ling Ma, whose 2018 dystopian novel, Severance, took home the 2019 Young Lions Fiction Award at a ceremony at the New York Public Library last night. Established in 2001, the award is a $10,000 prize given each spring to Read more >
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is postponing the publication of Naomi Wolf’s book Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love, several weeks after Wolf discovered during an interview with the BBC’s Matthew Sweet that she had misinterpreted some of the foundational Read more >
My personal form of astrology is to anxiously trawl Publishers Marketplace every week. No, wait, hear me out: it’s how I can tell the only future that matters: which books I will be reading a year and a half from now. Also, Read more >
Over at Variety, Neil Gaiman has opened the door to his office, which he uses as one of his two main writing spaces (the other is a gazebo in the middle of the woods, naturally). He goes there when he Read more >
Nicholas Sparks, the bestselling author of a lot of books about white women falling in love with white men, apparently tried to ban an LGBT club (or, in his words, “gay club”) at the Epiphany School, a Christian academy he Read more >
On March 9, 1997, Christopher Wallace—aka Biggie Smalls, The Notorious B.I.G., a man who still holds a claim on the title of greatest rapper of all-time—was shot and killed on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and South Fairfax Avenue, in Read more >
Apart from the fact of trying to figure out if Chelsea Girls is a novel or a memoir or a collection of stories (or whether it’s really even a book at all) I think I mainly want to tell you Read more >
For all the good that it’s done, the New York Times sometimes makes decisions that stoke the anger or disappointment of its readers. The announcement on Monday that the Times‘s international edition will no longer publish daily political cartoons, thus cutting ties with Read more >
Emily Ruskovich has won the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award (formerly known as the IMPAC) for her novel Idaho. The award comes with €100,000, making it world’s largest prize for a single novel published in English. The books on the longlist Read more >
Journalist David Neiwert said Tuesday that Twitter has suspended his account for displaying a cover image from his book Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, which Verso Books published in 2017. Here’s the image: Read more >
Today, Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington released the first photo from the set of Little Fires Everywhere, their adaptation of Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestselling novel, which will premiere on Hulu in 2020—and I have to say that the looks are Read more >
Every week, a new crop of great new books hit the shelves. If we could read them all, we would, but since time is finite and so is the human capacity for page-turning, here are a few of the ones Read more >
Natasha Tynes, whose book distribution deal was canceled after she posted, then quickly deleted, a tweet shaming a black D.C. metro employee for eating on the train, is suing her publisher for $13 million. The complaint states that Rare Bird Read more >
To coincide with World Oceans Day, XPRIZE—which is a nonprofit organization that manages competitions to encourage technological innovation and “radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity”—has published Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology online. The anthology collects the work of Read more >
My personal form of astrology is to anxiously trawl Publishers Marketplace every week. No, wait, hear me out: it’s how I can tell the only future that matters: which books I will be reading a year and a half from now. Also, Read more >
You may think we’ve reached Atwood market-saturation, but turns out Atwood market-saturation just doesn’t exist. Today, Variety reported that the rights to Margaret Atwood’s brilliant 1969 debut novel, The Edible Woman, have been picked up by Entertainment One. The adaptation will Read more >
The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses is an essential nonprofit that tirelessly supports independent literary publishers. Last night at Poets House in New York City, CLMP announced the winners of the fifth annual Firecracker Awards, dedicated to honoring the Read more >
To mark the 75th anniversary of of the Normandy landings, renowned British WWII historian James Holland (author of the forthcoming Normandy ’44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France) has compiled a list of the five best books about Read more >
Beloved Scots saloniste* and writer Damian Barr (most recently of the novel You Will Be Safe Here) is taking his wildly successful Literary Salon series—which is both a podcast and a live event at London’s posh Savoy Hotel—to the little Read more >
Having already been welcomed with acclaim from seemingly every corner of the literary world, Ocean Vuong’s novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous was officially released on Tuesday as a crowd gathered at Brooklyn’s Books Are Magic to hear him speak. Vuong talked Read more >
