There’s a scene in Vinson Cunningham’s debut novel, Great Expectations, when a preternaturally jaded Obama campaign worker is mystified by something he sees on the wall at a donor’s house. Describing the piece as a hodgepodge of text and light, Read more >
It’s another Tuesday, just at that moment in September when its linger summeriness may begin to shift more decisively into the cooler fires of autumn, but there’s no shift in one thing: that September has a ton of new books Read more >
Today, the Booker Prizes announced their 2024 shortlist: six books narrowed down from the “Booker’s Dozen” (otherwise known as the longlist of 13), chosen from a starting pool of 156 books written in English and published between October 2023 and Read more >
The OUP USA Guild, part of the News Media Guild and representing around 150 workers, is demanding that Oxford University Press reverse the recent firing of US-based workers, claiming the layoffs are in violation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement that Read more >
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 473 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Fiction are Jamie Ford, Read more >
Today, the shortlist for the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University was announced on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. The BBC National Short Story Award, now in its nineteenth year, grants £15,000 to the winning author; each Read more >
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 671 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Nonfiction are Brenda J. Read more >
A meme’s going around. I saw it first on FKA Twitter: 💀 pic.twitter.com/B5PrCZMml9 — THE lusty argonian maid (@lindawg) September 1, 2024 Though there’s no data to support this “discovery,” the internet was quick to take it on its face. Read more >
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 299 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Poetry are Richard Blanco Read more >
Questlove, best known as one of the more famous drummers to ever live and co-founder of The Roots, released a memoir this month called Hip-Hop is History. Co-written with his regular collaborator, Ben Greenman, this personal narrative builds on a Read more >
Photo by Howard Smith-Imagn Images, from SI.com James Earl Jones died on Monday at the age of 93, after a career filled with iconic performances, including in Star Wars, The Lion King, Roots, The Great White Hope, and a movie Read more >
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 141 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Translated Literature are Read more >
Last week, amid ongoing controversy over its primary sponsor’s links to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, the embattled Giller Foundation quietly dropped ‘Scotiabank’ from the title of its flagship literary award. From here on out, the Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada’s Read more >
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 333 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Young People’s Read more >
It’s another Tuesday in September, and the wheel of the year continues to turn quickly, so quickly that I am still vaguely expecting it to be the end of August. When time seems to move too fast, it might be Read more >
Today, the British Academy announced the 2024 shortlist for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. The international prize, now in its 12th year, celebrates “groundbreaking works of non-fiction that have made an outstanding contribution to the public Read more >
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