The National Book Foundation announced today that it will award its 2019 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to Edmund White. “A master of narrative and craft across fiction, journalism, memoir, and more, White has built a career defined Read more >
If you pick up the newest edition of Oxford American, the quarterly general-interest literary magazine founded in 1992 and best known for its annual Southern music issues, you’ll notice a bold design aesthetic: the conspicuous dearth of cover lines, a prominent Oxford American, one of the great lit mags of the American South, gets a facelift.">Read more >
This website’s position on books is that they’re best when you read them, but in the interest of journalistic(?) balance, here’s an app for people who love books, but don’t like reading. The 12min app, helpfully spotlighted by the New York Read more >
Buried deep within the alluvial silt of Twitter’s great and brackish tidal id one discovers, every now and then, a gem pure and bright. So it was I came across this thread from Bayfield, Wisconsin resident Julie Buckles, telling the Read more >
Today is a sad day. Concentric circles of mourning radiate, outward and infinite, from the morning of September 11, 2011: for the deepest of personal tragedies; for the dark swerve of history’s arc; for the millions of lives made ruin The New Yorker remains essential reading.">Read more >
Every week, a new crop of great new books hit the shelves. If we could read them all, we would, but since time is finite and so is the human capacity for page-turning, here are a few of the ones Read more >
Today, Elena Ferrante’s Italian publisher Edizioni E/O announced that her next novel will be in bookstores soon—on November 7 of this very year. Those would be Italian bookstores, of course—but her American publisher, Europa Editions, was quick to assure us: Read more >
Yes, it’s that time of the year. School is back in session. Coffee shops are doing pumpkin spice everything. Movie theaters are planning their Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic screenings. Bookstagram is once again overrun with knitwear and ceramic mugs full Read more >
Philip Roth’s Lichfield, Connecticut estate is on the market for $2.925 million. Roth bought the home in 1972 for $110,00 in cash, and it served as his primary residence from 1996 to 2001, during which time he wrote his American Read more >
The Goldfinch—John Crowley’s lavish adaptation of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Dickensian doorstopper—premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend and the first reviews have been, well, somewhat less than kind. Currently sitting on a decidedly un-fresh 31 percent rating on The Goldfinch are...not good.">Read more >
Executive vice president and publisher of Random House Susan Kamil, who published Salman Rushdie, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Elizabeth Strout, Sophie Kinsella, and Ruth Reich, among many others, died this weekend from complications relating to lung cancer, the AP reports. Random House Read more >
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt, “a debut memoir and joyful romp,” will be published anonymously by the author behind the beloved Twitter account. The book tells two stories: that of how a writer deep in grief rebuilt a life worth living through Becoming Duchess Goldblatt.">Read more >
Good news for all fans of strange cults, luscious writing, and page-turners: as Publishers Lunch reports, Emma Cline’s first story collection, Daddy, will officially be published in 2020 by Random House (and Chatto & Windus in the UK). As you Daddy, and it's coming out soon.">Read more >
Today, on the garbage website that controls our lives, some actually very good writing advice from author and editor Katherine May, which I present below without further comment: A note from a very weary editor, to all male writers: Women’s not to write about breasts.">Read more >
Writing a novel takes a long time because of how many of our hours we must spend not writing, for secret reasons. Especially accomplished procrastinators might find themselves with extraordinarily clean homes or a steady supply of cakes. (Thought personally, Read more >
My personal form of astrology is to anxiously trawl Publishers Marketplace every week. No, wait, hear me out: it’s how I can tell the only future that matters: which books I will be reading a year and a half from Read more >
How’s this for a picture perfect American story: Richard Montanez was the son of a Mexican immigrant who worked as a janitor at Frito-Lay. Then, he invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and now he’s a PepsiCo executive and a legend among Read more >
Earlier this week noted toaster-review site and server farm Amazon enraged booksellers across the country by breaking the sales embargo on Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments; yesterday, writing for Medium’s tech channel OneZero, Angela Lashbrook gave Amazon’s book club division, Goodreads, Read more >
Former White House Press Secretary and noted baby cage enthusiast Sarah Huckabee Sanders is writing a novel memoir that will likely be full of lies. It will be published by St. Martin’s Press in fall 2020. The book will detail Read more >
Sort of. In truth, American fans will have to wait a little longer to see what image will be gracing the cover of the US version of The Mirror & the Light, the long-awaited final novel in Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell The Mirror & the Light has been revealed. . .">Read more >
