Writer Zinzi Clemmons accuses Junot Díaz of forcibly kissing her
The novelist Junot Díaz was in a relaxed and playful mood on a panel at a writers festival in Australia on Friday, until he received an unexpected question near the end of the session. The writer Zinzi...
View ArticleAudible finishes third but America still gets a free audio book
Audible, the audio book distributor, threw its lot behind Audible, the 3-year-old colt, in the Kentucky Derby. The company sponsored the horse, which walked around in an ebook-themed blanket. If he won...
View ArticleAre two spaces better than one between sentences?
Researchers Rebecca L. Johnson, Becky Bui and Lindsay L. Schmitt carried out research with students and eye-tracking technology to attempt to ascertain whether it is easier to read with one space or...
View ArticleBooks by immigrants, foreigners and minorities don?t diminish the ?classic?...
Viet Thanh Nguyen argues that books by immigrants, foreigners and minorities don't diminish the 'classic' curriculum. They enhance it.... ...We must read Shakespeare and authors who are women, Arab,...
View ArticleJojo Moyes pledges funds to save British adult literacy program, Quick Reads
Author Jojo Moyes has pledged to save the British adult literacy program Quick Reads from closure by funding it for the next three years. She says she was "completely dumbfounded" on learning of the...
View ArticleJunot Díaz Steps Down as Pulitzer Chairman Amid Review of Misconduct Allegations
The Pulitzer Prize board has opened an independent review of sexual misconduct allegations against the award-winning novelist Junot Díaz, who is stepping down as chairman, the board said on Thursday....
View ArticleBarnes & Noble: why it could soon be the bookshop's final chapter
Last week, Barnes & Noble, the largest book retailer in the US, saw its stock price plunge nearly 8% just days after the New York Times published an editorial calling for the chain to be saved....
View ArticleTom Wolfe, author of The Bonfire of the Vanities, dies aged 88.
Tom Wolfe, author of notable works such as The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities, has died aged 88. In addition to his books, he was a pioneer of New Journalism, which developed in the 1960s...
View ArticlePhilip Pullman and Gail Honeyman dominate British Book Awards
Philip Pullman has been named author of the year at the British Book Awards for his "outstanding" success. The children's author was recognized after returning to the world of his Dark Materials with...
View ArticleRomantic Times and related websites shutting down
The romance-focused magazine Romantic Times, along with the RT Book Reviews, RT VIP Salon and RT Booklovers Convention brands, is shutting down after 37 years. The closure is effective immediately, and...
View ArticleMaybe abusive authors don?t belong on my bookshelf. But what about in my...
Writing in The Washington Post, author and professor Sandra Beasley asks, "Do we continue to teach the work of people we now suspect of behaving unethically or abusively? ... As a reader, I'm...
View ArticleAmerican novelist Philip Roth dies at 85
Philip Roth, whose novel American Pastoral won a Pulitzer in 1998 but who was best-known for the controversial and explicit 1969 Portnoy's Complaint, has died at age 85.
View ArticlePolish author Olga Tokarczuk wins Man Booker International Prize
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk won the £50,000 (about $67,170) Man Booker International Prize, which celebrates the finest works of translated fiction from around the world, for her novel of linked...
View ArticleWhy are middle-aged women invisible on book covers?
Writing in The Guardian, Alison Flood asks why is it that, even when they're central to the story, women over 40 get pushed to one side when it's time to design the book jacket?
View ArticleAuthor Germaine Greer stirs furor with call for lighter rape penalty
The Australian author and academic Germaine Greer, one of the most contrarian voices on feminism, has stirred a furor by dismissing rape as "bad sex" and calling for a lower penalty for perpetrators of...
View ArticleAuthor Niall Ferguson leaves Stanford role after ordering 'opposition...
Niall Ferguson, the prominent British historian, has left his role with a Stanford university free speech initiative after leaked emails showed him suggesting "opposition research" be carried out on a...
View ArticleNPR says that a 1980s study on early childhood education that has been cited...
NPR's All Things Considered calls into question a 1980s study on early childhood education that has been cited more than 8,000 times: Did you know that kids growing up in poverty hear 30 million fewer...
View ArticleA story of survival: New York?s last remaining independent bookshops
With small traders struggling to stay afloat, writer Philippe Ungar and photographer Franck Bohbot travelled across New York to meet 50 indie booksellers in their habitats...
View ArticleKamila Shamsie wins Women's Prize for Fiction
Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire, which reworks Sophocles' tragedy Antigone to tell the story of a British Muslim family's connection to Islamic State, has won the Women's prize for fiction. The book was...
View ArticleChef and author Anthony Bourdain dead at 61
Anthony Bourdain, the gifted chef, storyteller and writer who took TV viewers around the world to explore culture, cuisine and the human condition for nearly two decades, has died. He was 61. CNN...
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