The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one’s own place, One’s own people, One’s own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and Read more >
Oh dear. Earlier this month, Publishers Weekly reported on romance readers’ increased appetite for books with “cinnamon rolls” and “golden retrievers” as their leading men—categories that are exactly what they sound like: “sweet, supportive, and kind” (CR) and possessed of Read more >
Almost 60 years after the publication of Where The Wild Things Are (November 23 will mark the rumpus), the world is getting a new children’s book from the late Maurice Sendak. HarperCollins Publishers will be releasing Ten Little Rabbits: A Read more >
One Hero died defiled, but [Bookforum does] live! It was announced today in concert with Artforum that The Nation would relaunch shuttered institution Bookforum this August with a triumphant Summer 2023 issue (you can subscribe here). Per The Nation’s press Read more >
“I believe, to quote the Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton, ‘that poetry, like bread, is for everyone.’” So begins the reign of Ricardo Maldonado at the Academy of American Poets, announced on Wednesday to be its new president and executive director—the Read more >
Six authors have been named to the shortlist for the 2023 Miles Franklin award, Australia’s top literary gong, with a AU$60,000 prize being dangled for the eventual winner. The shortlist is: Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow Robbie Arnott, Limberlost Read more >
Somehow, it is the 20th of June; I find myself amazed that we’re here already, that so much time has quickly and quietly rushed by. What is equally amazing—and far less funereal—is that there are so many fascinating new books Read more >
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Happy Bloomsday to all who celebrate! Did you know that iconic mid-century American literary critic/Nabokov frenemy No. 1 Edmund Wilson reviewed James Joyce’s Ulysses upon its publication Read more >
This week, PRINT Magazine introduced me to the work of Candace Hicks, a Nacogdoches, Texas-based artist who makes, among other things, gorgeous and beguiling cloth recreations of classic composition notebooks, complete with embroidered text on functional pages. “Sewing every line, Read more >
Welcome to a new century of Bloomsdays (long may they run). As James Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses, turns 101, let us take a moment to honor one of the great works of literature ever produced, set on this day in Dublin, Read more >
The 23rd Young Lions Fiction Award, handed out by the New York Public Library to a novel or collection of short stories, went to Brothers Alive author Zain Khalid at a June 15th ceremony. The $10,000 award recognizes a writer Read more >
Sound too good to be true? Well I have news for you, dear aspiring writer, you can get yourself a phone call or a manuscript critique from a fancy literary agent by bidding at this year’s Literary Agents of Change Read more >
Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, Labyrinths.">Read more >
Today, the UK’s prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction announced this year’s winner: Barbara Kingsolver, for her novel Demon Copperhead. This is Kingsolver’s second Women’s Prize, after her win in 2010 for The Lacuna, which makes her the first two-time winner of Read more >
Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning genius behind such indelible American novels as Suttree, Blood Meridian, and The Road, along with his most accessible work, The Border Trilogy, has died in Santa Fe at age 89. Too often touted as a Read more >
Monday, June 12th, began with two literature-related tweets. One noted the replacement of newspapers in a bodega with a wall of Welch’s fruit gummies. “This says a lot about society,” went the tweet, which to be frank I don’t have Read more >
The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (NYDOCCS) has now rescinded a troubling proposal that would have trampled on the free expression rights of incarcerated writers, artists and musicians. This is a welcome move along with the Read more >
As we approach the middle of June, it is difficult not to think that it has been a curious month, a peculiarly mixed bag of beauty and terror. Depending where you are, you may have gotten to celebrate Pride month Read more >
Last week, Elizabeth Gilbert announced the forthcoming publication of The Snow Forest, a novel set in Siberia about a family who flee Soviet forces, escaping to the forest where they “protect nature against industrialization.” After an “overwhelming” response from the Read more >
The trailer opens with Richard E. Grant growling that “great writers … steal” (Aaron Sorkin stole it first). There are dark slashes of cello in the nondiagetic that let us know The Lesson will be a dark film about a Read more >
