Penguin Hotline, Good and Bad Readers, and More
December’s must-read poetry books; the tricks of menu design; LARB Books acquires Les Figues Press; and other news.
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Whiting Foundation Announces New Prizes for Literary Magazines
Three Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes totaling up to $120,000 will be given annually for print and digital publications. The new awards program is intended to support both “nimble upstarts as well as established journals.”
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New Nigerian Novelists, the Fate of Book Startups, and More
Bad Sex in Fiction Award shortlist announced; the enduring challenge of Hart Crane’s poem “The Bridge”; jewelry made from books; and other news.
Scrabble Stories
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Planning to play some board games or learn some new words over the holiday weekend? Get some insight from this New Yorker video as professional Scrabble players discuss and reenact their most improbable, most regretful, and most humbling plays and moves.
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The Keats Letters Project, Writers Nominated for Image Awards, and More
Dictionaries for prisoners; Thanksgiving poems; Liz Phair signs two-book deal with Random House; and other news.
National Book Award Winners, Art for Justice Grants, and More
Marilynne Robinson on democracy and discourse; Chinua Achebe’s Google Doodle; the seven sins of book blurbing; and other news.
Saeed Jones on BuzzFeed’s Twitter Show, Audible Turns Twenty, and More
Actress Krysten Ritter releases thriller novel; McSweeney’s and Casper Mattress launch print magazine; Beth Ann Fennelly on micro-memoirs; and other news.
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5 Over 50: 2017
Five writers over the age of fifty whose debut books were released this year: Jimin Han, Laura Hulthen Thomas, Karen E. Osborne, Tina Carlson, and Peg Alford Pursell. Excerpts of their books are available in 5 Over 50 Reads 2017.
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The Poet at Work: A Profile of Kevin Young
With a new book of nonfiction, Bunk, a new job as director of a leading research center on black culture, and a new role as poetry editor of the New Yorker, Kevin Young is fully engaged in a personal program of moving multitudes.
Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
Page One offers the first lines of a dozen new and noteworthy books, including Louise Erdrich’s novel Future Home of the Living God and Victoria Chang’s poetry collection Barbie Chang.
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