Galley Beggar, the independent press that published Lucy Ellmann’s Booker Prize-nominated novel Ducks, Newburyport, is facing a sudden financial crisis following yesterday’s news that Book People, an online retailer based in the UK, has basically declared bankruptcy (if you want to Read more >
Good news, lovers of brooding Irish actors and tragicomic literary noir: Michael Fassbender—the Academy Award-nominated Hiberno-German star of Inglourious Basterds, Shame, and the latest incarnation of the X-Men movies—has optioned the film rights to Night Boat to Tangier, Irish author Read more >
Haruki Murakami ended a nearly 25-year streak of avoiding public readings today, when he held an event to mark four decades since his authorial debut. He appeared with novelist Mieko Kawakami, who won the Akutagawa Prize in 2008 and interviewed Read more >
First he brought us Step Up 2: The Streets. Then he brought us Step Up 3D. (Where he was for the original Step Up, I couldn’t tell you.) But then, most notably, he directed blockbuster rom-com Crazy Rich Asians in 2018. Now Read more >
It’s raining today in London, but those still determined to visit its feminist landmarks may be rewarded with a soggy copy of Little Women, courtesy of Emma Watson’s latest book-hiding stint. After striking the New York subway and London Underground in Read more >
‘Tis the season of realizing the limits of your spacial awareness! “Measure twice, cut once”? In this economy? Luckily, UK bookseller Waterstones has opened our eyes to a new way of rectifying our (easily preventable) gift-wrapping fuck-ups. Behold: This is Read more >
Did you know that master fantasist George R.R. Martin opened his own movie theater in Santa Fe, the Jean Cocteau Cinema? Well, now he’s opening a bookstore next door, Beastly Books. As Martin writes, on his blog: We’ve been doing Read more >
File under how we live now: a Mesa, Arizona man allegedly stole over $16,000 worth of rare books from an associate’s private collection. Over the course of a year, 60-year-old Jeffrey William Grande took and resold titles like Time Machine Read more >
Earlier today, the employees of the New York City-based indie bookshop McNally Jackson voted to join the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU). RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum says, “We’re proud to welcome the workers of McNally Jackson into our Read more >
That’s right, Celeste Ng fans: a trailer for Little Fires Everywhere, the star-studded Hulu adaptation of Ng’s wildly-successful 2017 novel—about the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives when they move to 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 >
PEN America has just announced its literary longlists for 2020. The awards will confer over $330,000 in total to writers and translators whose exceptional literary works were published in 2019. The categories span fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, science writing, Read more >
Congrats to Susan Choi for ending the year on a high note: her novel Trust Exercise, which won this year’s National Book Award for Fiction, is in development to become a limited television series with FilmNation Entertainment. Choi will write Read more >
Peter Handke, the Austrian writer whose Nobel win has been causing upheaval in the literary world since it was announced in October, is now persona non grata in Kosovo, the country’s foreign minister Behgjet Pacolli announced Wednesday. Handke, who has Read more >
Brittle Paper, an online magazine that publishes English-language writing by authors of African descent, announced the five winners of the 2019 Brittle Paper Awards on Wednesday. Brittle Paper, now in its ninth year, was created to “archive the wealth of Read more >
Everyone has that one friend who identifies as a “book lover” or a “book person” or simply “bookish.” Well, okay, one might think, but which books do they love? All books? It can’t be. (And yet.) So when the holidays Read more >
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