Man Booker Prize Shortlist is Announced
LONDON The shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction, among the most prestigious literary honors in the world, includes six books by authors from Britain, Canada, South Africa and the...
View ArticleNational Book Awards longlists announced
All the National Book Awards longlists have now been announced, including ten nominees each for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature. The finalists will be announced October 13 and...
View ArticleWriters win MacArthur "genius" grants
The MacArthur Foundation have awarded 23 "genius" grants to people who have shown "exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future". Each award is worth $625,000 to...
View ArticleNew California law severely hinders bookstores from offering book fairs and...
Two prominent California booksellers have written letters to their representatives in opposition to Assembly Bill 1570 Collectibles: Sale of Autographed Memorabilia, which was signed into law by...
View ArticleNational Book Foundation name their 5 Under 35 honorees
Today, The National Book Foundation named their list of 5 Under 35 honorees: Brit Bennett, The Mothers (Riverhead) Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (Knopf) Greg Jackson, Prodigals (FSG) S. Li, Transoceanic Flights...
View ArticleBob Dylan wins Nobel Prize for Literature
The 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to singer-songwriter Bob Dylan "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
View ArticleFour new Winnie-the-Pooh stories & one new character mark 90th anniversary
Four new adventures (one for each season of the year) have been published to mark the 90th anniversary of the first Winnie-the-Pooh book, along with the introduction of a new character - Penguin. The...
View ArticlePaul Beatty becomes the first US winner of the UK's prestigious Man Booker Prize
Paul Beatty has become the first US winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Sellout. Until 2013 the award was open only to citizens of the Commonwealth of nations (in essence, the UK and former British...
View ArticleMarlowe to be credited as co-author on Shakespeare's Henry IV trilogy
Ending years of speculation (or perhaps simply fueling more), Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe is to be credited as co-author on Oxford University Press editions of three of Shakespeare's...
View ArticleNatalie Babbitt, author of Tuck Everlasting, dies aged 84
Esteemed author and artist Natalie Babbitt, whose 1975 novel Tuck Everlasting remains a lauded work of the modern children's literature canon, died of lung cancer on October 31 in her home in Hamden,...
View ArticlePEN America Decries Abduction of Hong Kong Booksellers
The American Booksellers Association, the Association of American Publishers and the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom issued a statement over the weekend praising Hong...
View ArticleLittle Free Library reaches milestone - now 50,000 book exchanges worldwide!
The Little Free Library movement has reached a milestone with its 50,000th book exchange (located at the Illumination Foundation homeless shelter in Santa Ana, Calif.) Little Free Library's stated...
View ArticleIn the wake of the election, PEN America doubles down on its mission to...
In the wake of Donald J. Trump's surprising victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, PEN America has released a statement doubling down on its mission to protect free speech. The...
View ArticleLeonard Cohen dies aged 82
Singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist Leonard Cohen died Thursday aged 82. Jared Bland at his longtime publisher McClelland & Stewart said in a statement, "His work, in all its forms, touched our...
View ArticleEach 18-year-old Italian to be given ?500 "cultural bonus" to spend how they...
The Italian government has launched an initiative to give a 500 (about $546) "cultural bonus" to young people on their 18th birthday. The money can be spent on books, concert tickets, theater tickets,...
View ArticleGwen Ifill, award winning political reporter and author dies aged 61
Gwen Ifill, an award-winning television journalist for NBC and PBS, former reporter for The New York Times and author who moderated vice-presidential debates in 2004 and 2008, died of cancer today at a...
View ArticleRoger Hobbs, author of Ghostman and Vanishing Games, dies aged 28
Roger Hobbs, 28, author of the thrillers Ghostman and Vanishing Games, died of an overdose on November 14 in Portland, OR. Gary Fisketjon, Hobbs' editor at Knopf, said in a statement: "This is a...
View ArticleNational Book Award winners include Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad
National Book Award for Fiction: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead National Book Award for Nonfiction: Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi National Book Award for Poetry: The...
View ArticlePatterson delivers on his promise to grant $1.75 million to help save school...
James Patterson has delivered on his pledge earlier this year of $1.75 million to help save school libraries with the second installment of the School Library Campaign. In partnership with Scholastic...
View ArticleAuthor William Trevor dies aged 88
Irish author William Trevor, 88, best known for his short stories, died Sunday evening. He won the O. Henry Prize four times and the Whitbread Award three times; he was also nominated for the Booker...
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