Hungarian Jewish Imre Kertesz, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature,...
Imre Kertesz, a Hungarian Jewish writer and Nobel laureate acclaimed for his semi-autobiographical novels on surviving the Holocaust and its aftermath, died on Thursday at his home in Budapest. He was...
View ArticleMarilynne Robinson to be awarded Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
Acting Librarian of Congress David S. Mao has announced that Marilynne Robinson, author of such critically acclaimed novels as "Gilead" and "Home," will receive the Library of Congress Prize for...
View ArticleIn Silicon Valley's San Jose tens of thousands of poor residents are banned...
The New York Times reports on the sad state of the public library in San Jose, California where nearly a third of residents in poor neighborhoods are banned from entry to the library due to unpaid...
View ArticlePerseus Books Group now part of Hachette
The sales of Perseus Books Group publishing operations to Hachette Book Group and its distribution operations to Ingram Content Group both closed late last week. Ingram chairman and CEO John Ingram...
View ArticleNew Kindle with rechargeable protective case coming soon
Amazon will soon sell a higher-end Kindle with a rechargeable protective case for extended battery life. The removable cover will allow the Kindle to be thinner than earlier devices. Also under...
View Article2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners
The 2016 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today. Winners in this centennial year include: Fiction: Viet Thanh Nguyen for The Sympathizer History: T.J. Stiles for Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier...
View ArticleThree authors on Times most influential people list
Time Magazine's latest list of the world's 100 most influential people includes authors Ta-Nehisi Coates, Elena Ferrante and Marilynne Robinson.
View ArticleLeonnard Riggio to step down as executive chairman of B&N in September
After decades as one of the biggest names in the bookselling industry, Leonard Riggio, the 75-year-old executive chairman of Barnes & Noble, has decided to step down as executive chairman after the...
View ArticleUS bookstore sales jump 11% in March, marking 7th month of continuous growth
March bookstore sales in the USA jumped 10.7% according to preliminary estimates from the Census Bureau. This marked the seventh month in a row that bookstore sales have risen. For the year to date,...
View Article7000 attendees enjoyed successful BookCon in Chicago
7000 book fans attended Book Con in Chicago on Saturday. As in the two previous years in New York City, attendees skewed towards significantly more females than males. Some attendees were disappointed...
View ArticlePraise for BookExpo America in Chicago, despite slow Wednesday and Friday
After a slow start on Wednesday afternoon, BookExpo America kicked into gear on Thursday and concluded on Friday with much praise from many attendees. The somewhat smaller attendance--probably around...
View ArticleThe Vegetarian wins the Man Booker International Prize
South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for her novel The Vegetarian, described by Judging panel chairman Boyd Tonkin as "unforgettably powerful and original". The...
View ArticleIn Britain, lit fiction books in translation outsell English language lit...
Translated literary fiction is selling better on average in the UK than literary fiction originally written in English, according to new research by Nielsen, with authors including Elena Ferrante,...
View ArticleThe ten 2016 recipients of the National Medal for Museum and Library Service
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has announced the 10 recipients of the 2016 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation's highest honor given to museums and libraries for...
View ArticleHamilton wins 11 Tony Awards, one shy of record held by The Producers
Hamilton, the hit Broadway musical based on the 2004 Ron Chernow biography of Alexander Hamilton (Penguin) has won 11 Tony Awards including best new musical. This is just one award short of the record...
View ArticleHastings files for bankruptcy protection, 126 superstores selling new and...
Hastings Entertainment, which operates 126 superstores in medium-sized markets selling new and used books, among other things, has voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with its parent...
View ArticleApple e-book refunds begin today
Attorneys today confirmed that $400 million in refunds due readers following the end of the Apple e-book price-fixing case will begin flowing into customer accounts on June 21with refunds for New York...
View ArticleAustin Clark, author of The Polished Hoe, dies aged 81
Austin Clarke, the award-winning Barbadian-born author who wrote about the immigrant experience and being black in Canada, died Sunday at age 81. The author of at least eleven novels, six short-story...
View ArticleMichael Herr, author of "Dispatches," dies aged 76
Michael Herr, who wrote Dispatches, a glaringly intense, personal account of being a correspondent in Vietnam that is widely viewed as one of the most visceral and persuasive depictions of the...
View ArticleElie Wiesel dies aged 87
Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz survivor and author of more than 40 books has died aged 87 in New York, where he lived and had been a citizen since the 1960s. Born in Romania in 1928, he was deported to...
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