Bob Dylan will receive Nobel prize this weekend but when will he give his...
After months of suspense and typically inscrutable standoffishness, Bob Dylan, the elusive Nobel laureate, will finally accept his literature prize at a meeting with members of the Swedish Academy in...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble hires - and fires - new CEO in just one hour!
In less than an hour yesterday, Doug McMillion, the president and CEO of Wal-Mart, was hired and then fired as CEO of Barnes & Noble. McMillion, a lifelong Wal-Mart employee - was considered by...
View ArticleRichard Bolles, author of "What Color is Your Parachute" dies aged 90
Richard N. Bolles, a former Harvard physics major, Episcopal minister and career counselor whose own twisting vocational path led to his writing "What Color Is Your Parachute?" the most popular...
View ArticleColson Whitehead wins Pulitzer
Colson Whitehead has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Underground Railroad. The General Nonfiction prize went to Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. Blood in...
View ArticleUS bookstore sales down 3% year on year in February
February bookstore sales fell 3%, to $744 million, compared to February 2016, according to preliminary estimates from the Census Bureau. This is the third monthly drop in a row. For the first two...
View ArticleMark your calendars for Independent Bookstore Day!
Independent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the USA on the last Saturday in April. Every store is unique and independent, and every party is...
View ArticleFirst John Grisham bookstore tour for 25 years
Bestselling author John Grisham will celebrate the publication of his 30th novel, Camino Island ( June 6), with his first bookstore tour in 25 years. On his website, Grisham shares the schedule and...
View ArticleRobert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, dies aged 88
Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, died yesterday at age 88. First published in 1974 by William Morrow, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into...
View ArticleGranta announces its once in a decade Best Young American Novelists list
Just once every 10 years Granta issues a special issue focued on new American fiction, "showcasing the young novelists deemed to be the best of their generation--writers of remarkable achievement and...
View ArticleAmazon allows third-party book re-sellers to "win" buy buttons on book pages
A new program from Amazon is drawing a range of reactions from those across the publishing industry, from fear to downright anger. The e-tailer has started allowing third-party book re-sellers to "win"...
View ArticlePublishers and author organizations join the many others criticizing Amazon's...
Several publishers and authors organizations have officially joined the many book world people criticizing Amazon's new policy allowing third-party booksellers to "bid" for the primary spot in buy...
View ArticleCalifornia bookstore files suit against a state law preventing stores selling...
Represented by the Pacific Legal Foundation, Book Passage--with stores in Corte Madera, Sausalito and San Francisco, Calif.--and co-owner Bill Petrocelli have filed suit against a state law that, the...
View ArticleSuite Francaise, adapted from Irene Nemirovsky, will premiere on Lifetime May 22
Suite Française, adapted from the bestselling book by Irene Nemirovsky will premiere on the Lifetime network May 22.
View ArticleMargarita Engle named Young People's Poet Laureate
Margarita Engle has been named the Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. Awarded every two years, the $25,000 laureate title is given to a living writer in recognition of a career...
View ArticleBusinesses unite to advocate to retain federal library funding
America's libraries got a major boost this week on Capitol Hill as a group of leading publishing, information, software, and other businesses unveiled an organized effort to advocate for federal...
View ArticleJean Fritz, author of ground-breaking historical biographies for children,...
Jean Fritz, an award-winning writer whose work helped transform historical biographies for children from leaden recitals of battles and dates into warm, human narratives full of quirks and crotchets...
View ArticleDenis Johnson, award winning writer, playwright and poet has died aged 67
Denis Johnson, the award-winning fiction writer, poet, and playwright whose best-known and most influential work, the story collection Jesus' Son, turned 25 this year, has died. He was 67. The cause of...
View ArticleForever Stamp to celebrate Henry David Thoreau bicentennial
The U.S. Postal Service is honoring Henry David Thoreau (b. July 12, 1817) during the bicentennial year of his birth with a Forever Stamp. A first-day-issue stamp dedication ceremony took place last...
View ArticleBob Dylan's Nobel speech: Can song lyrics be literature?
On Monday, the Nobel Foundation released Bob Dylan's lecture (which he gave just shy of the 6 month deadline in order to receive the award and cash prize of US$900,000. In his 27 minute speech, Dylan...
View ArticleHelen Dunmore dies aged 64
Helen Dunmore has died aged 64 of cancer. She authored 12 novels, three books of short stories, numerous books for young adults and children and 11 collections of poetry. She was also a Fellow of the...
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