Anita Shreve, best-selling author of 'The Pilot?s Wife,' dies at 71
Anita Shreve, 71, author of 20 books included The Pilot's Wife and The Weight of Water, died of cancer Thursday at home in southern New Hampshire. She had announced her illness almost a year...
View ArticleSing, Unburied, Sing wins Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
The winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards for "literature that confronts racism and examines diversity" are: Fiction: Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward Nonfiction: Bunk, by Kevin Young Poetry:...
View ArticleCanadian Independent Bookstore Day
When U.S. booksellers celebrate Independent Bookstore Day on April 28, their neighbors to the north will be taking part in Canadian Independent Bookstore Day, a "new look" version of Authors for Indies...
View ArticleJoan Silber's 'Improvement' wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Joan Silber has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Improvement (which won the NBCC Award last month.) All five finalists (Silber, Hernán DÃaz, Samantha Hunt, Achy Obejas and Jesmyn Ward) will...
View ArticleAmazon Study Reveals Explosive Growth of Third-Party Sales, Sales Tax Avoidance
A new report from the American Booksellers Association (ABA) and Civic Economics reveals the continuing — and increasing — loss of jobs and essential state and municipal revenue as a result of the...
View ArticleSale of Waterstones to hedge fund likely to complete by end of April
UK bookstore chain Waterstones will be sold to hedge fund Elliott Advisors "likely" by the end of April, the end of the U.K. bookstore chain's fiscal year, according to the Bookseller, which cited "a...
View ArticleThree judges resign from Nobel literature committee
Three judges for the Nobel literature prize have resigned. Klas Ostergren, Kjell Espmark and Peter Englund released statements or letters Friday to Swedish media but gave few details. Englund wrote in...
View ArticleAndrew Sean Greer's "Less" is surprise winner of Pulitzer for fiction.
Andrew Sean Greer's novel Less and James Forman Jr.'s book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America are among the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winners, each of whom receives $15,000....
View ArticlePBS's The Great American Read
The Great American Read, an eight-part series hosted by TV personality and journalist Meredith Vieira, will introduce viewers to PBS's list of the country's 100 favorite novels, created in partnership...
View ArticleE-book sales fell 10% in 2017
Unit sales of traditionally published e-books fell 10% in 2017, compared to 2016, according to figures released by PubTrack Digital.
View ArticleGood news for George R. R. Martin fans--new book coming Nov 20. Bad...
Good news for George R.R. Martin fans—he has a new book on the way. Bad news for George R.R. Martin fans—it's not his long-awaited fifth sequel to A Game of Thrones. Fire and Blood will publish on...
View ArticleWaterstones sale to investment firm confirmed
As expected in earlier reporting, U.S. investment firm Elliott Advisors has agreed to buy U.K. bookstore chain Waterstones, which operates 283 bookstores in the U.K, with a handful of branches in...
View ArticleWhat will you be reading next year? A roundup of the London book fair
Every year, after fierce fights between publishers over novels, celebrity memoirs and curveball meditations on nature and life, the dust settles on the London Book Fair and we're left with a list of...
View ArticleHow the author of ?Madeline? created his most famous character
April 27 would have been the 120th birthday of Ludwig Bemelmans, creator of the Madeline books. While his character's story is charted in 12 books and continues to delight a generation of children (and...
View Article7th member of Nobel Literature awarding body steps down, 2018 award may be...
The Swedish Academy says a seventh board member has decided to step down amid a crisis at the prestigious institution that awards the Nobel Prize in literature. The secretive 18-member body has been...
View ArticleAn interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In a wide ranging interview Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about motherhood, #MeToo, and causing controversy...
View ArticleAfter 17 years of litigation, 'freelance' writers finally collect
The checks are in the mail—finally. Administrators have confirmed that payments were issued last week to thousands of freelance writers following a 2014 settlement in the long-running class action case...
View ArticleNobel Prize in Literature postponed until 2019
The Swedish Academy has postponed the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, with the intention of awarding it in 2019. This decision was prompted by a crisis involving accusations of assault by 18 women...
View ArticleAnnie Proulx wins 2018 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
Annie Proulx has won the 2018 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. The prize honors an American literary writer "whose body of work is distinguished not only for its mastery of the art but...
View ArticleReading aloud to young children has benefits for behavior and attention
It's a truism in child development that the very young learn through relationships and back-and-forth interactions, including the interactions that occur when parents read to their children. A new...
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