What do Brit Bennett, Megan Thee Stallion, and Sascha Baron Cohen all have in common? They’ve all joined The Weeknd in being named Entertainment Weekly’s 2020 Entertainers of the Year. Though I’ve loved Bennett since her 2017 debut novel The Read more >
The Romantic Novelists’ Association is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, and as part of their celebrations, they’ve conducted a poll, asking readers and RNA members which romantic novels from the last 60 years have most captured their attention. And Read more >
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey’s Memorial Drive—a harrowing memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her stepfather—has been optioned by Sony Pictures Television for development as a drama series. Recently heralded Read more >
Poet Jamie Hood’s how to be a good girl, from Grieveland Press, comes out on December 8, and I’m already getting excited. A hybrid of diary, poetry, fragments, and criticism, how to be a good girl grapples with canonical texts Read more >
The December 2020 issue of The Volta, out now, includes an “In Memoriam” feature on poet and memoirist Molly Brodak. The feature includes 20 previously unpublished poems from Brodak’s final decade of life: “A Letter,” “A Meeting,” “Ark,” “Bargain,” “Camp,” Read more >
Today, The Financial Times and McKinsey & Company announced the winner of its 2020 Business Book of the Year Award, which recognizes a work that provides the “most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues.” The prize comes with £30,000 Read more >
Now that you’ve purchased new house slippers, a floor lamp, and an air fryer at slight discounts (anyone else? just me?), why not consider donating a few dollars to these very worthy literary organizations, nonprofits, and volunteer-run bookshops? * ORGANIZATIONS Read more >
The universally loved Netflix miniseries The Queen’s Gambit is so popular it’s affecting our purchasing habits. According to U.S. Retail Tracking Service data from NPD, sales of chess books have jumped a whopping 603 percent since the miniseries was released. Read more >
Yes, the two-time National Book Award finalist and America’s most famous contemporary practitioner of the Joni Mitchell school of marriage fiction (think about it) is returning to the novel game. Riverhead Books announced earlier this afternoon that Matrix—Groff’s first novel Read more >
It is a truth universally acknowledged . . . that Northanger Abbey is less quotable than Pride and Prejudice. Nevertheless, Northanger Abbey is the latest of Austen’s six novels to be adapted into an illustrated children’s book for the Awesomely Read more >
Gregory Forth’s A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path has won the U.K.-based Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, beating out runner-up Kathryn L. Smithies’s Introducing the Medieval Ass for the honor. No, it’s not autofiction: Read more >
It’s officially December! I’m sure you’ve already seen all of Netflix’s new Christmas movies. What now? Well, friend, here are a dozen new books that you can find at your local indie today. * Jane Smiley, Perestroika in Paris (Knopf) “Relentlessly Read more >
There’s a new union on the block: Verso Books announced today that its staff has organized to join the Washington-Baltimore News Guild (WBNG), a unit of the NewsGuild and the Communications Workers of America. Management voluntarily recognized the union last Read more >
Jane Austen lovers (with 4 million pounds handy), rejoice! Three buildings in Bath’s Laura Place, a location described in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, are to be sold in an online auction on December 15. The buildings will be sold together, and Read more >
In another instance of teenagers being wonderful, D.C. teens have partnered with publisher Shout Mouse Press and literacy tutoring program Reach Incorporated to create children’s books that respond to this year’s high-profile incidents of police brutality. In the last seven Read more >
The Talented Mr. Ripley—Patricia Highsmith’s iconic 1955 novel in which a struggling small-time con-man evolves into a full-blown psychopath—is widely considered to be one of the greatest psychological thrillers of all time (its stylish 1999 film adaptation is also a stone Read more >
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