Novelist and short story writer Robert Coover, a master of metafictional and intricately fabulist and experimental literature, died on Saturday in Warwick, England, “surrounded by family,” according to the AP. He was celebrated (particularly by other writers) for works that Read more >
And it is called, aptly, oh-so-aptly, Whimsigoth. The house at the center of 1998’s Practical Magic may be among the Most Pinterested Fictional Property. A robust mood board movement puts The Owens’ Manse in a whole aesthetic constellation with candelabras, Read more >
Sometimes friends get you in trouble. It’s just going to happen. Even your closest, oldest friends will give you bad advice or indulge a destructive impulse—“Stay out for one more!” “Text him!” “Take extravagant airline upgrades from Turkey!” But if Read more >
Today, McGill University announced the finalists for the 2024 Cundill History Prize, which celebrates books that “speak to major issues in the present day.” Finalists will each receive $10,000; the winner, judged on “historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and diverse Read more >
Yesterday, the MacArthur Foundation announced its class of fellows for 2024. The annually given fellowship “is a $800,000, no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential.” Colloquially known as “genius grants,” the MacArthur is Read more >
Ah, October: some might say it’s the best month of the year. (It is.) Certainly, it is the spookiest (although Charles Dickens might argue for December) and by the time you read this, I have no doubt that your neighborhood Read more >
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards in all five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature. The finalists were selected from a starting total of 1,917 books submitted by Read more >
The wheel of the year never stops turning, and October, suddenly, is here. For many of us, the fall can be a time both of harvests and loss, a time of fire and fading, life and death. For many Americans, Read more >
October, astonishingly, is here already, bringing with it cooler weather, fiery and fading leaves, meditations on the passage of time and death as change, and, of course, spooky season. And, of course again, new books to read, including paperback editions Read more >
This weekend, a devastating hurricane knocked out a large swathe of the Southeast. A superstorm caused by climate change, Hurricane Helene is the largest natural disaster to hit the Carolina region in recorded time. Disaster relief is slow going, and Read more >
Lizzy Bennet, the hero of Pride and Prejudice, is that rare, perfectly-drawn character that one can imagine walking right off the page. But luckily, we no longer have to imagine. She’s real, folks. And she’s ready to talk. A UK-based Read more >
Ever since novelists started mixing with Hollywood, film and prose have been easy bedfellows. A lot of authors are proud cinephiles. Others go so far as to credit movies as major form or content influences. And thanks to the fleet Read more >
In a show of pro-Palestinian solidarity, the author and activist Jhumpa Lahiri refused to accept an honor from the Noguchi Museum yesterday. The Isamu Noguchi Award, named for the museum’s founder, has been conferred annually since 2014. It seeks to Read more >
Today, The New York Times’ real estate section published a story about Nicholas Sparks’ house, which looks very big, features lots of local art, and also boasts “the opening paragraph of The Notebook … inscribed on a wall behind a Read more >
Attention, bookworms and fellow travelers! Verso, the beloved left wing publishing house and hub for radical thought, is in big financial trouble. The company’s UK distributor, Marston Book Publishing, filed for bankruptcy this July—and left behind some unsettled debts. Verso Read more >
Publishers for Palestine, a global solidarity collective of more than 500 publishers in 50 countries, has issued an open letter to the Frankfurt Book Fair (the world’s largest trade fair for books, which this year takes place from October 16 Read more >
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