PEN America to honor Stephen King with Literary Service Award
PEN America is honoring Stephen King with its Literary Service Award at its annual literary gala in New York City on May 22. The award is given to "a critically-acclaimed writer whose body of work...
View ArticlePBS announces new show, The Great American Read, launching in May
Margaret Atwood, Junot DÃaz, Lauren Graham John Irving, Bill T. Jones, Devon Kennard, Gayle King, Diane Lane, George R. R. Martin, Lesley Stahl and Many more will lend their voices to PBS' "The Great...
View Article"Fire and Fury" sells 192,000 copies in its first full week on sale.
Henry Holt's efforts to rush more copies of Fire and Fury to stores appears to have partly met demand for the book. According to NPD BookScan, which tracks 80% to 85% of print sales, Michael Wolff's...
View ArticlePeter Mayle, author of 'A Year in Provence,' dies aged 78
Peter Mayle, author of A Year in Provence and other books including a series of crime novels, died on Thursday at a hospital near his home in Southern France.
View ArticleJenny Joseph: 'I shall wear purple' poet dies aged 85
Jenny Joseph, whose poem "Warning" was twice voted Britain's favorite poem, has died at the age of 85. It is perhaps best known for its opening lines: "When I am an old woman I shall wear purple / With...
View ArticleFantasy author Ursula K Le Guin dies at home.
Fantasy author Ursula K Le Guin has died at her home in Oregan, aged 88. A prodigious author, her career spanned more than half a century. She won numerous awards including the Nebula and Hugo science...
View ArticleHelen Dunmore wins Costa book of the year for Inside the Wave
The poet and author Helen Dunmore, who died in June 2017, has been awarded the Costa book of the year for her final poetry collection, Inside the Wave. Dunmore, who died last year aged 64, is only the...
View ArticleNational Book Foundation adds book award for translated literature
The National Book Foundation today announced it will present the National Book Award for Translated Literature, beginning this year at the 69th National Book Awards in November. This prize, which...
View ArticleMissing Hong Kong Bookseller/Publisher Wins Prix Voltaire
Gui Minhai, the Hong Kong bookseller and publisher who has twice been seized by Chinese authorities--most recently on January 20--is being awarded the International Publishers Association's Prix...
View ArticleMansplain and helicopter-parent among 1,100 new words added to Oxford English...
More than 1,100 new words were included in the latest update to the Oxford English Dictionary's online edition, with more than 100 of them relating to parenting. "Mansplain" also enters the dictionary...
View ArticleALA Awards Winners include Hello, Universe (Newbery); The Hate You Give and...
The American Library Association presented their annual book awards today. The Newbery medal went to Erin Entrada Kelly for Hello, Universe (Greenwillow Books) and the Caldecott Medal to Matthew...
View ArticleFormer Causeway Bay Books manager plans to open a book store in Taiwan
Former Hong Kong-based Causeway Bay Books manager Lam Wing-kei said during an interview with a foreign radio station on Tuesday that it is almost certain that he will open a book store in Taiwan and if...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble cutting staff due to poor holiday season and declining sales
Barnes & Noble is trimming its staff, laying off lead cashiers, digital leads and other experienced workers in a company-wide clearing, CNBC has learned from sources familiar with the matter. The...
View ArticleThe Golden Man Booker Prize
The Booker Prize Foundation has launched the Golden Man Booker Prize to mark the 50th anniversary. This special one-off award will crown the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the...
View ArticleA prisoner got a book deal. Now the state wants him to pay for his imprisonment
In the summer of 2016, Curtis Dawkins, a felon who is serving a life sentence in Michigan for murdering a man during a botched robbery, got some unexpected good news. Scribner, one of the top literary...
View ArticlePenny Vincenzi dies aged 78
Bestselling author Penny Vincenzi, whose novels have sold more than 7m copies worldwide, has died aged 78.
View ArticleHarper Lee?s will unsealed, but only adds to the mystery
On Tuesday, an Alabama court unsealed author Harper Lee's will, but the mystery surrounding one of American literature's most cherished authors only deepened. The will, signed on February 11, 2016,...
View ArticleWhy the Joy of Cooking is going after a Cornell researcher
America's most celebrated cookbook brand is calling out one of America's most cited food scientists--the latest chapter in a scandal that has been rocking social science. The tiff erupted on Tuesday...
View ArticleA lot is riding on "A Wrinkle in Time." Ava DuVernay doesn't care
Both the New York Times and Washington Post have "Wrinkle in Time" articles in anticipation of the March 9 movie release. The NY Times focuses on filmmaker Ava DuVernay while The Washington Post...
View ArticleTa-Nehisi Coates will write the Captain America comic
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of "Between the World and Me" and one of the country's best-known public intellectuals, announced Wednesday he would begin writing the Captain America title for Marvel...
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