How Barbara Kingsolver reignited her love affair with words
Writing in The Washington Post, Barbara Kingsolver talks about her current work screen-writing the TV adaptation of The Poisonwood Bible, and her rediscovered love of writing poetry: [L]ately,...
View ArticleMarley Dias: 14-year-old education activist
Marley Dias was 10 the day she came home from school to eat pancakes with her mother and vented her frustration at being assigned to read Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. Again. "It is one of...
View ArticleOne of Britain's most active cultural philanthropists and founder of the...
David Cohen, one of Britain's most active cultural philanthropists and founder of the £40,000 (about $49,145) David Cohen Prize for Literature, died August 4. He was 89. The Bookseller reported that...
View ArticleAudible will exclude publishers' works from captions program—for now
In a stipulation filed in federal court on August 28, Audible has agreed to exclude works from a group of major publishers from its Captions program until permission and licensing issues raised in a...
View ArticleReese Witherspoon names The Secrets We Kept her September 2019 book club pick
Reese Witherspoon has named Lara Prescott's debut novel The Secrets We Kept as her September book club choice. This thrilling historical fiction, which publishes on September 3, is inspired by the...
View ArticleBooker Prize shortlist announced, including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood
The shortlist for The Booker Prize, the U.K.'s top prize for fiction, has been announced. The list includes two former winners, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie--even though Atwood's book doesn't...
View ArticleMargaret Atwood's Testament released in error to 800 Amazon shoppers, and...
Hundreds of readers in the US have received early copies of Margaret Atwood's heavily embargoed follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, after copies were shipped out early by Amazon....
View ArticleStanford sexual assault survivor identifies herself before release of memoir
Chanel Miller was known by the pseudonym Emily Doe at the trial of Stanford student Brock Turner, who was sentenced to six months in county jail for the assault. The sentence caused widespread anger...
View ArticleIndies expect fury at Amazon's early release of Atwood's The Testaments
Amazon has broken the worldwide embargo on Margaret Atwood's The Testaments (Nan A. Talese), which isn't supposed to go on sale until next Tuesday, September 10, inadvertently shipping about 800...
View ArticleDorothea Benton Frank, beloved Lowcountry author, dies
Dorothea Benton Frank, author of 20 novels set in the Charleston area and a beloved figure who for years split her time between Sullivan's Island and the New York City area, died Monday evening after...
View ArticleJojo Moyes: UK government must tackle 'shameful' adult literacy levels
Bestselling author Jojo Moyes has called on the government and the publishing industry to do more about the UK's "shameful" adult literacy record. In 2018, Moyes, writer of global hits including Me...
View ArticlePublishers announce new Elena Ferrante novel out in November
Elena Ferrante, the Italian author whose Neapolitan novels became a global phenomenon, is to publish a new book in Italy on 7 November – her first novel in four years.
View ArticleNo-deal Brexit could put indie publishers out of business
Indie press Galley Beggar has warned of the impact a no-deal Brexit could have on publishing after learning of "crazy" government requirements on distribution and warned it could put smaller...
View ArticleCokie Roberts, pioneering journalist who helped shape NPR, dies at 75
Veteran journalist Cokie Roberts, who joined an upstart NPR in 1978 and left an indelible imprint on the growing network with her coverage of Washington politics before later going to ABC News, has...
View ArticleUK book industry joins global climate strike
UK publishers, booksellers and literary agents were among the millions around the world who took part in a climate strike and protests to demand urgent action on environmental change. The marches,...
View ArticleNew B&N CEO James Daunt gets to work on rejuvenating America's largest...
If the fortunes of Barnes & Noble are going to be turned around—and new CEO James Daunt is confident they will be—the improvement will be led by the company's booksellers. In an interview at...
View ArticleUS booksellers support #GlobalClimateStrike
Indie booksellers across the U.S. supported last Friday's Global Climate Strike in many ways. "No one can be certain that any of this will lead to change," Silver Unicorn owner Paul Swydan wrote. "But...
View ArticleNew York Times shifts its lists again
The New York Times Book Review has announced a new slate of changes to its bestseller lists, both in print and online. After cutting the mass market paperback and graphic novel/manga lists in 2017,...
View Article26 MacArthur Fellows announced, including 10 writers
Twenty-six new MacArthur Fellows have been announced for 2019. Each will receive a $625,000 grant paid out over five years. According to the MacArthur Foundation each recipient has "shown...
View ArticlePew survey finds more adults listening to audiobooks
A new report by the Pew Research Center has provided more documentation on the growing popularity of audiobooks. In a survey of 1,502 American adults conducted from January 8 to February 7 this year,...
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