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John le Carré has died at age eighty-nine; Poets & Writers Magazine investigates the Poets House dispute; poet Amy Key discovers lessons from Blue by Joni Mitchell; and other stories.
The author of Thin Places recalls failed attempt after failed attempt to maintain a strict writing schedule.
A look inside the dispute between the former workers and board of Poets House over why the poetry nonprofit and library temporarily closed and laid off staff in November.
Fiction writer Anthony Veasna So has died; Daniel Halpern to leave Ecco at the end of the year; Akwaeke Emezi writes on learning to live with disability; and other stories.
Melissa Febos’s Girlhood, forthcoming from Bloomsbury Publishing on March 30, 2021.
The Association of Authors’ Representatives rebrands as the Association of American Literary Agents; Tattered Cover in Denver sold to new owners; Kid Cudi to adapt Brandon Taylor’s Real Life; and other stories.
Controversy brews over Spanish-language rights to Louise Glück’s work; Goodreads reveals winners of this year’s Goodreads Choice Awards; Melville House publisher Dennis Johnson speaks out against the pending merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster; and other stories.
Literary Review cancels this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award; Alexander Chee muses on writers’ block; Kelly Harris-DeBerry charts her origins as a poet; and other stories.
“There’s never a lack of inspiration.” —Morgan Christie, author of These Bodies
New York Public Library highlights 125 New York City books; Roald Dahl’s family issues apology for the author’s anti-Semitism; Brit Bennett listed among Entertainment Weekly’s Entertainers of the Year; and other stories.
