This year is one of unusually salient statistics and overwhelming numbers. As Marcia Douglas writes in her preface to the newly published 2019 VIDA Count—the tenth iteration of this initiative—both the 2020 census and the uptick in COVID cases remind Read more >
On June 18th, Oslo’s new public library, Deichman Bjørvika, opened its doors to the public. Located on Oslo’s waterfront, and spanning six floors and 140,000 square feet, “Norway’s biggest bookshelf” (as its director Knut Skansen calls it) will contain some Read more >
Today, Simon & Schuster named Dana Canedy, a former journalist and the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes (as well as a Pulitzer-winner herself), as its newest executive vice president and publisher. The New York Times reports that Canedy had been under Read more >
Today, Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, author of the Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, and the likely future Booker Prize-winning novel The Mirror and the Light, turns 68. But you probably knew that. What you might Read more >
Yesterday, a tweet from Liberation Library, an organization that provides books to incarcerated children (yes, you read that right), went viral. It was a photograph of thank-you letter written by a child in custody, to the organization, expressing gratitude for Read more >
When John Prine died earlier this year, there were a few things his obituary writers agreed on. If you weren’t a huge music fan, you might not have known who he was. If you knew who he was, you undoubtedly Read more >
I am a huge fan of Search Party, the formerly-of-TBS-now-of-HBO Max comedy about a group of millennial friends who take it upon themselves to solve the mystery of a college acquaintance’s disappearance… with surprising results! The cast is fantastic, the writing Read more >
Lenny Kravitz—rockstar, progenitor of absurdly beautiful children, and innovator in the field of scarves—announced in a video on Twitter today that his memoir, Let Love Rule, is set for release on October 6. Of course, while “announced” is technically accurate Read more >
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 >
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