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The New York Times lists the ten best books of 2011; Deadwood creator David Milch has contracted to adapt William Faulker's works for HBO; novelist Jennifer Gilmore writes of meeting a potential birth mother; and other news.
Novelist Glen David Gold writes of Faulkner and literary relationships; Gabriel García Márquez wins a seventeen-year legal battle; Quentin Rowan, whose plagiarized novel was recently pulled from the shelves, has published a confession; and other news.
Novelist Keith Gessen details his two days held in New York City's infamous jail the Tombs; a new literary feud has developed between Niall Ferguson and Pankaj Mishra; poet John Ashbery speaks with Time; and other news.
The weekend after Thanksgiving, president Obama took his daughters to shop at an independent bookstore; poet Daisy Fried reviews Herbert Leibowitz's new William Carlos Williams biography, Something Urgent I Have to Say to You; Jack Kerouac's first novel has been published seventy years after it was written; and more.
Novelist Steve Almond writes of the actions of law enforcement officers at UC Davis and elsewhere; a doll-sized manuscript handwritten by Charlotte Brontë has been discovered; the best literature of family dysfunction; and other news.
The New York Times has listed its 100 Notable Books of 2011; Consumer Reports compares a few of the latest e-readers; the Literary Review's annual Bad Sex in Literature Award has been announced; and other news.
Former United States Poet Laureate Robert Hass writes of his experience confronting police at Occupy protests on Berkeley's campus; Granta has animated an imaginary zombie movie mentioned in a Roberto Bolaño story; the harshest author rejection letters of all time; and other news.
Novelist Keith Gessen was arrested yesterday at Occupy Wall Street; critic James Wood adds his voice to the Jonathan Lethem kerfluffle; Henri Cole speaks about his new book of poems; and other news.
The end of Moammar Kadafi's rule in Libya also marked an end to censorship; Occupy Wall Street library's newly-donated books were seized by the NYPD (again); novelist Neil Gaiman has forever secured his place in the cultural firmament—this Sunday, he'll appear on The Simpsons; and other news.
Bookstore sales rose 7 percent in September; novelist Paul Auster to speak at historic Green-Wood cemetery; a glimpse at the personal libraries of several authors, including Claire Messud, Gary Shteyngart, and Junot Díaz; and other news.
