Booksellers to America: Save the Post Office
At a time when the USPS is facing severe cuts and the Postmaster General is talking about introducing scaled rates depending on location, Danny Caine, owner of the Raven bookstore, in Lawrence, Kansas...
View ArticleMarieke Lucas Rijneveld wins International Booker for The Discomfort of Evening
The 29-year-old Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has become the youngest author ever to win the International Booker prize, taking the award for their "visceral and virtuosic" debut novel, The...
View ArticleTrump's plot to skew election by undermining the post office also risks...
Donald Trump's plot to skew the upcoming election by wrecking the Post Office could also cripple the nation's bookstores. Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kan., is raising the...
View ArticleKwame Dawes to take over as editor of American Life in Poetry
Kwame Dawes has been named the new editor of American Life in Poetry, a free weekly column that appears in hundreds of publications and thousands of online newsletters. Dawes, who was born in Ghana,...
View ArticleDev Patel heads ensemble cast in new 'David Copperfield'
According to The Washington Post, The Personal History of David Copperfield is a supremely effective ensemble piece, stuffed to bursting with brilliant supporting performances by Hugh Laurie, Peter...
View ArticlePowell's will no longer sell on Amazon Marketplace
Saturday Aug 29 is Independent Bookstore Day, and Powell's, the renowned indie bookstore in Portland, Oregon, is marking the day in a unique way. To affirm its commitment to customers, the community...
View ArticleMarilyn Chin win Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
The Poetry Foundation has announced Marilyn Chin as the winner of the 2020 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. This award honors a living US poet with $100,000 in recognition of their outstanding lifetime...
View ArticleSupply issues disrupt fall publishing schedules
Back in March, many publisher rescheduled large chunks of their catalog to the fall in the hope that things would be back to normal. But they are not, and now we are entering a very overcrowded season...
View ArticleBertelsmann, owner of Penguin Random House, and Harper Collins interested in...
Penguin Random House parent company Bertelsmann has confirmed that it is interested in acquiring Simon & Schuster once ViacomCBS begins to again actively shop the country's third largest trade...
View ArticleHow libraries can save the 2020 election
As states rush to adapt their election systems amid the coronavirus pandemic, officials estimate that 80 million Americans plan to vote by mail this fall, twice as many as in 2016. Because of...
View ArticleAyad Akhtar named next president of PEN America
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, novelist, and screenwriter Ayad Akhtar will serve as the next president of PEN America, succeeding novelist Jennifer Egan, who has led the organization in that...
View ArticleNational Book Foundation to honor Walter Mosley with lifetime achievement award
The National Book Foundation has announced that it will award Walter Mosley with the 2020 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He is the thirty-third recipient of the National...
View ArticleSir Ronald Harwood obituary
British author, playwright and author Ronald Harwood died aged 85 last week. He earned three Oscar nominations and won for best adapted screenplay in 2003 for The Pianist. His plays included The...
View ArticleBooker Shortlist dominated by debut authors
The Booker shortlist was announced today, with four of the six nominees debut authors. In another surprise to many, two-times winner Hilary Mantel was not included on the shortlist.
View ArticleCEO John Sargent leaving Macmillan
In a surprise announcement this morning, Holtzbrinck announced that John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan, will leave Macmillan and its parent, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, on January 1. Don Weisberg,...
View ArticleCrown to Release Obama's 'A Promised Land' globally in November
The first volume of Barack Obama's long-anticipated presidential memoir, A Promised Land, will be published globally in hardcover and digital formats on November 17, 2020 by Crown, an imprint of...
View ArticlePresident Trump intensifying efforts to repress books
President Trump is intensifying efforts to repress books that expose his malfeasance. A grand jury has reportedly issued a subpoena to Simon & Schuster, the publisher of The Room Where It...
View ArticleBooker Prize nominated author Tsitsi Dangarembga faces trial
Three days after Tsitsi Dangarembga was nominated for the Booker Prize longlist on July 28 with her latest novel, This Mournable Body, she was arrested. Now, she has made it onto the UK's leading...
View ArticleFantasy and The Sword of Truth author Terry Goodkind has died
Fantasy author Terry Goodkind, known for his long-running The Sword of Truth series, has died at the age of 72. His agent confirmed his passing to Tor Books and Tor.com.
View ArticleForrest Gump author Winston Groom dies aged 77
Tributes have been paid to Winston Groom, the author of the novel Forrest Gump, who has died aged 77. His work was adapted into a 1994 blockbuster film starring Tom Hanks. Forrest Gump was a cultural...
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