Today, on the garbage website that controls our lives, some actually very good writing advice from author and editor Katherine May, which I present below without further comment: A note from a very weary editor, to all male writers: Women’s Read more >
Writing a novel takes a long time because of how many of our hours we must spend not writing, for secret reasons. Especially accomplished procrastinators might find themselves with extraordinarily clean homes or a steady supply of cakes. (Thought personally, 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 Read more >
How’s this for a picture perfect American story: Richard Montanez was the son of a Mexican immigrant who worked as a janitor at Frito-Lay. Then, he invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and now he’s a PepsiCo executive and a legend among Read more >
Earlier this week noted toaster-review site and server farm Amazon enraged booksellers across the country by breaking the sales embargo on Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments; yesterday, writing for Medium’s tech channel OneZero, Angela Lashbrook gave Amazon’s book club division, Goodreads, Read more >
Former White House Press Secretary and noted baby cage enthusiast Sarah Huckabee Sanders is writing a novel memoir that will likely be full of lies. It will be published by St. Martin’s Press in fall 2020. The book will detail Read more >
Sort of. In truth, American fans will have to wait a little longer to see what image will be gracing the cover of the US version of The Mirror & the Light, the long-awaited final novel in Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell Read more >
Most of the time, Porter Square Books gets books with a Tuesday release on the preceding Friday. If we did not honor strict on-sale dates or embargoes, that would give us a significant sales advantage over stores that tend to Read more >
Need some evidence that literature isn’t dead? (Besides that very question being an insufferable cliché, I mean?) May I present Margaret Atwood, uncorking a Mona Lisa smile on the cover of TIME. Obviously it’s totally warranted, but consider the fact Read more >
Copies of Margaret Atwood’s feverishly awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, have already made their way to readers, via Amazon, despite one of the strictest sale-date embargoes many booksellers have ever been forced to sign. The book is Read more >
Deadline is reporting that Ursula K. Le Guin‘s beloved Earthsea books are going to be made into a TV series. Oscar-nominated producer Jennifer Fox (Michael Clayton, Nightcrawler) will be developing the show for studio A24, which will then shop it Read more >
The brutality of the Central Processing Center, an immigration detention camp in McAllen, Texas, more commonly called “la perrerra” or “the dog kennel” by those acquainted with it, has been well-documented by this point. Five years after it opened as Read more >
It’s hard to forget Lionel Shriver’s 2016 sombrero-sporting keynote at the Brisbane Writers Festival in which she railed against the “fascistic” overtones of identity politics, and warned that accusations of “cultural appropriation” were tantamount to the worst kind of censorship. Read more >
J. K. Rowling’s beloved Harry Potter series is once again in the news after it was banned by the St. Edward Catholic School in Tennessee. The epic fantasy series focused on young wizard Harry Potter who battles against the forces Read more >
Literary awards season is upon us! The Booker Prizes announced their 2019 shortlist this morning. Congratulations to all six shortlisters! Without further ado, here are the finalists: Margaret Atwood (Canada), The Testaments (Vintage, Chatto & Windus) Read Atwood on how she came 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 >
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