Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, long-time-serving New York Times book critic, dies...
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, a nationally influential literary critic for The New York Times for three decades, who wrote some 4,000 reviews and essays, mostly for the daily column Books of The Times,...
View ArticleAmazon backs down after booksellers in 27 countries protest
A worldwide strike by antiquarian booksellers against an Amazon subsidiary proved successful after two days, with the retailer apologizing and saying it would cancel the actions that prompted the...
View ArticleStan Lee, chief writer and editor of Marvel Comics dies aged 95
Stan Lee, who as chief writer and editor of Marvel Comics helped create some of the most enduring superheroes of the 20th century and was a major force behind the breakout successes of the comic-book...
View ArticleAmazon Picks NYC, Arlington, Va., as New HQ Sites
Amazon confirmed Tuesday morning that it has chosen sites in New York City and Northern Virginia as the locations for its new headquarters. As previously reported, the New York City office will be...
View Article500 indie bookstores to take part in sixth Indies First celebration on Small...
With less than 10 days to go until Thanksgiving and the start of the holiday shopping season, independent bookstores around the country are finalizing their plans for the sixth annual Indies First...
View ArticleBirdwatching with Jonathan Franzen: 'Climate change isn't the only danger to...
'The two things I love most are novels and birds, and they're both in trouble,' says The Corrections author, one of the world's most famous birdwatchers, in an extensive interview in The Guardian
View ArticleNational Book Award Winners announced including first winner of the...
The 2018 National Book Award Winners have been announced. See them all on BookBrowse including the first winner of the new Translated Literature category.
View ArticleFirst Lady memoirs, past and present
The Washington Post looks at First Lady memoirs past and present, starting with Julia Grant: When former first lady Julia Grant finished her memoir in 1899, with the help of one Mark Twain, she...
View ArticleOxford Dictionaries designates 'toxic' its word of the year
The Oxford Word of the Year 2018 is… toxic. The adjective toxic is defined as 'poisonous' and first appeared in English in the mid-seventeenth century from the medieval Latin toxicus, meaning...
View ArticleEsi Edugyan Wins Second Giller Prize for Washington Black
Esi Edugyan was announced as the winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel Washington Black during a televised awards banquet Monday night at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Toronto. The Giller is...
View ArticleThe increasing trend of novelists writing for TV
The New York Times explores the increasingly porous borders between writing novels and writing for television: In a world in which some of our more successful or esteemed novelists — Margaret Atwood,...
View ArticleWhy the USA is increasingly embracing translated novels
The Washington Post reports on why translated literature is gaining ground in the USA: In the two disharmonious decades of the 21st century, American society has grown less homogeneous and more...
View ArticleJames H. Billington, the librarian of Congress for nearly three decades, dies...
James H. Billington, the librarian of Congress for nearly three decades, who led the nation's treasure house of knowledge into the digital age (not without controversy) and added millions of books,...
View ArticleCosta Award shortlists announced
The shortlists for the 2018 Costa Awards have been released. The five category winners will be announced on January 7 and the overall winner on January 29. The awards honor "some of the most...
View ArticleCan Steve Jobs' wife save storytelling?
Over the last few years, Ms. Powell Jobs, an activist, investor and entrepreneur, has been investing in media companies through her social impact firm, Emerson Collective. Buying up a range of unusual...
View ArticleMargaret Atwood Is writing a sequel to 'The Handmaid's Tale'
Following two years in which Margaret Atwood's classic dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale saw a skyrocketing in readership and new cultural relevance, both on television and in society at large, the...
View ArticleNetflix adapts Dahl's stories for original animated series
Netflix will create an original animated series of Roald Dahl stories including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and The Twits. "Roald Dahl stories have long inspired award-winning...
View ArticleThe New Booker Prize winner who may never write again
The New York Times has an extensive and moving interview with Anna Burns, who won this year's Man Booker Prize for her novel, Milkman which will be published in the USA on December 4: Burns is one of...
View ArticleMystery Writers of America withdraws Linda Fairstein's Grand Master Edgar Award
In the wake of increasing controversy over the naming of bestselling mystery author Linda Fairstein as one of next year's Grand Master Edgar recipients, Mystery Writers of America has withdrawn the...
View ArticleHaruki Murakami and James Frey lead an all-male shortlist for the bad sex in...
The Literary Review has announced an all-male shortlist for that least-coveted of literary prizes, the Bad sex in fiction award. Haruki Murakami, often named as a contender for the Nobel prize, makes...
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