Tiajuana Anderson Neel, Pulpwood Queens executive director, dies unexpectedly
Tiajuana Anderson Neel, executive director of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club Reading Nation, died April 19. She was 65. The Longview News-Journal reported that Neel "loved to read books and became a...
View ArticleThe Clockwork Condition: lost sequel to "A Clockwork Orange" discovered
A lost "sequel" to Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, in which the author explores the moral panic that followed the release of Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of his novel, has been found among...
View ArticleMueller Report books start hitting stores
Despite the widespread availability of digital copies of the Mueller report, the three publishers that have announced plans for print editions remain convinced that there will be robust demand for...
View ArticleHow the mayor's children's books set off a scandal in Baltimore
The political corruption scandal roiling Baltimore, leading to an FBI raid of Mayor Catherine Pugh's house Thursday morning, all began with a children's book. Pugh, who has been serving as the city's...
View ArticleJames Holzhauer's winning Jeopardy strategy: The children's section at the...
"I have a strategy of reading children's books to gain knowledge. I've found that in an adult reference book, if it's not a subject I'm interested in, I just can't get into it. I was thinking, what is...
View ArticleShe pulled her debut book when critics found it racist. Now she plans to...
The New York Times takes on the tricky topic of YA authors being censored by readers within their own communities--focusing in particular on 26 year-old Amélie Wen Zhao who asked her publisher,...
View ArticleWholesaler Baker & Taylor dropping bookstores; Indies unhappy
Baker & Taylor has made it official: it is leaving the wholesale retail book market. The move was hinted at when it became public late last year that the company was in talks to sell its retail...
View ArticleAcademic publishers Cengage and McGraw-Hill to merge
Cengage and McGraw-Hill, two of the largest academic publishers remaining, have agreed to a merger on equal terms that is expected to close by early 2020, the companies announced yesterday.
View ArticleWhy you should start binge-reading right now
Novelist Ben Dolnick waxes lyrical on the benefits or ditching Netflix for a novel. And not just because a novelist is telling you to: One night a couple of summers ago, the power went out and, unable...
View ArticleJean Vanier, founder of L'Arche communities for adults with learning...
Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche communities for adults with learning disabilities, living alongside those without them, has died aged 90. In August 1964, having giving up his job teaching philosophy...
View ArticlePoetry Foundation announces 2019 awards winners
The Poetry Foundation has announced Marilyn Nelson as the winner of the 2019 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Naomi Shihab Nye the 2019–2021 Young People's Poet Laureate, and Terrance Hayes winner of the 2019...
View ArticleSally Rooney's "Normal People" takes Book of the Year at British Book Awards
Faber emerged victorious at the British Book Awards 2019 on Monday evening (13th May), with Sally Rooney's Normal People scooping the coveted Book of the Year award. The book had earlier won the...
View ArticleHerman Wouk, Pulitzer Prize-winning master of sweeping historical fiction,...
Herman Wouk, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Navy drama The Caine Mutiny, whose sweeping novels about World War II, the Holocaust and the creation of Israel made him one of the most popular...
View ArticleElena Ferrante: A Power of Our Own
In an opinion piece in the New York Times, novelist Elena Ferrante states that power is "a story told by women. For centuries, men have colonized storytelling. That era is over. .... In the beginning...
View ArticleAuthor Sherrilyn Kenyon, who claims poisoning by husband, jailed after...
The bestselling author who accused her husband of poisoning her was jailed for direct contempt after a court hearing last month. Kenyon was accused of calling one of her husband's attorneys a "f---ing...
View ArticleCan NYC's Shakespeare & Co. Create a National Indie Chain?
In 2015, with the purchase of the Shakespeare & Co. name in the U.S. and the successful acquisition of a lease to the store's former 5,000 sq. ft. location on Lexington Ave. on New York's Upper...
View ArticleLibrary of Congress Prize for American Fiction to be awarded to Richard Ford
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today that Richard Ford, author of "Independence Day"– the first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award – will receive the Library...
View ArticleJokha Alharthi wins Man Booker International prize for "Celestial Bodies"
Jokha Alharthi, the first female Omani novelist to be translated into English, has won the Man Booker International prize for her novel Celestial Bodies. Alharthi, the £50,000 award's first winner to...
View ArticleBinyavanga Wainaina, barrier-shattering presence in African literature, dies...
Binyavanga Wainaina, a prizewinning Kenyan writer whose humorous, incisive books and essays explored themes of postcolonialism, gender and sexual identity, including his own decision to come out as a...
View ArticleJudith Kerr, beloved author of "The Tiger Who Came to Tea", dies aged 95
Judith Kerr, the author and illustrator whose debut picture book The Tiger Who Came to Tea introduced generations of pre-school children to the joyful chaos of uncontrolled appetites, died at home...
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