Carol Gilligan’s Radical Listening, Jerome Foundation Awards, and More
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Remembering W. S. Merwin, Laurie Halse Anderson on Speaking Out, and More
Dave Eggers on the next generation; Apple to adapt Pachinko as drama series; climate change and the mandate of travel writers; and other news.
National Book Critics Circle Awards, F+W Media Declares Bankruptcy, and More
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Windham-Campbell Prize Winners, American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards, and More
Harper Lee’s letter on the sell-outs of her hometown; Arthur A. Levine to launch new indie press; Rick Singer’s book reviews; and other news.
Man Booker International Longlist, Science Fiction Foretells the Future, and More
New translation imprint HarperVia; Maurice Carlos Ruffin on satire; The Left Hand of Darkness at fifty; and other news.
Triangle Award Finalists, Literary Rivalries, and More
Benn Steil wins American history book award; keeping up with indie presses; remembering Rachel Ingalls; and other news.
Barnes & Noble Discover Awards, Daughters of Africa Sequel, and More
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Handmaid’s Tale Sequel, Lambda Literary Finalists, and More
Fatimah Asghar on solidarity; Toni Morrison’s new essay collection; James Tate’s posthumous poetry; and other news.
Lauren Groff Wins Story Prize, the Stolen Books of Internet Piracy, and More
Paris Review prizes; Edmund Berrigan on encountering his father’s poetry in workshop; Netflix to adapt One Hundred Years of Solitude; and other news.
Tournament of Books, PEN/Faulkner Award Finalists, and More
Jill Osier wins Yale Series of Younger Poets; the 2019 Audie awards; the decline of New York City bookstores; and other news.
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Two Nobels in 2019, Dan Smetanka Named Editor in Chief of Counterpoint, and More
One Book, One New York reading list; Dave Eggers on why Trump might win again; George Saunders on making it into the New Yorker; and other news.
Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist, 2019 Best American Guest Editors, and More
A two-year decline in translated publications; the Second Shelf is changing how we pay for books by women; Etaf Rum on breaking a code of silence; and other news.
New Booker Prize Sponsor, the Cut Expands to Fiction, and More
Washington Post and Scribner to publish Mueller report; the Believer awards; theaters cancel productions of To Kill a Mockingbird; and other news.
Authors for Women’s Voices in Afghan Peace Talks, Philip Pullman’s New Novel, and More
The worry, regret, and insomnia of publication; the fifty greatest literary television adaptations; Jane Stern on the dark side of libraries; and other news.
Dawn Lundy Martin Wins Kingsley Tufts Prize, 2019 PEN Literary Awards, and More
Natasha Trethewey on painting with poetry; the radical lineage of Black women’s autofiction; a stable year of print sales for Penguin Random House; and other news.
New York Review of Books’ New Editors, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as Comic Book Hero, and More
HBO announces release date for Native Son; National Book Award for translation results in sales spike; the murky world of literary plagiarism; and other news.
Bonnie and Clyde in Their Own Verse, the Fisherpoets of America, and More
Max Porter on the wonder of language; Dickens’s attempt to send his wife to an asylum; Sandra Cisneros on surviving depression; and other news.
Obama’s Proposed Presidential Library, Oscar-Worthy Reading Lists, and More
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s “Friday Black” optioned by Universal; the inaugural Sue Grafton Memorial Award; Nebula Awards finalists; and other news.
Writers’ Day Jobs, Lethem’s Legends, and More
The finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Aspen Words Literary Prize; the DNA of parchment; and other news.
Tayari Jones on Becoming a Writer, MacDowell Colony’s New Director, and More
Rereleased work by Tomi Ungerer; Elias Khoury on the truth of the moment; Don Winslow challenges Donald Trump to a debate; and other news.
The Play Between Poetry and Basketball, Voices of the “Poetry Boom,” and More
Cheesy reading in the University of Michigan library; small-screen book adaptations; Tana French’s thrilling new direction; and more.
Arundhati Roy Headlines World Voices Festival, Patricia Lockwood’s Internet Diary, and More
Andrea Levy has died; Dan Mallory accused of plagiarism; twenty-three unforgettable last lines; and more.
Dave Cullen on Student Activism, Glory Edim on Finding Her Voice, and More
Prince William County residents receive letters from their poet laureate; the Authors Guild survey; Valentine’s Day reading lists; and other news.
NEA Fellowships Announced, Meg Wolitzer’s Writing Routine, and More
Heidi Toffler has died; Verso announces fiction imprint; book burglary in Chester County; and more.
Haruki Murakami Goes Down the Well, Kazuo Ishiguro Knighted, and More
Spring program for NBF Presents; Valeria Luiselli unpacks her archive; Erica Dawson debunks the assumption of “single story spun on a single tongue;” and other news.