Most of the time, Porter Square Books gets books with a Tuesday release on the preceding Friday. If we did not honor strict on-sale dates or embargoes, that would give us a significant sales advantage over stores that tend to Read more >
Need some evidence that literature isn’t dead? (Besides that very question being an insufferable cliché, I mean?) May I present Margaret Atwood, uncorking a Mona Lisa smile on the cover of TIME. Obviously it’s totally warranted, but consider the fact TIME this year.">Read more >
Copies of Margaret Atwood’s feverishly awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, have already made their way to readers, via Amazon, despite one of the strictest sale-date embargoes many booksellers have ever been forced to sign. The book is The Testaments">Read more >
Deadline is reporting that Ursula K. Le Guin‘s beloved Earthsea books are going to be made into a TV series. Oscar-nominated producer Jennifer Fox (Michael Clayton, Nightcrawler) will be developing the show for studio A24, which will then shop it Earthsea books to be made into a TV series.">Read more >
The brutality of the Central Processing Center, an immigration detention camp in McAllen, Texas, more commonly called “la perrerra” or “the dog kennel” by those acquainted with it, has been well-documented by this point. Five years after it opened as Read more >
It’s hard to forget Lionel Shriver’s 2016 sombrero-sporting keynote at the Brisbane Writers Festival in which she railed against the “fascistic” overtones of identity politics, and warned that accusations of “cultural appropriation” were tantamount to the worst kind of censorship. Read more >
J. K. Rowling’s beloved Harry Potter series is once again in the news after it was banned by the St. Edward Catholic School in Tennessee. The epic fantasy series focused on young wizard Harry Potter who battles against the forces Harry Potter banned in Catholic school after exorcists advise its dark magic is real.">Read more >
Literary awards season is upon us! The Booker Prizes announced their 2019 shortlist this morning. Congratulations to all six shortlisters! Without further ado, here are the finalists: Margaret Atwood (Canada), The Testaments (Vintage, Chatto & Windus) Read Atwood on how she came 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 >
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 now. Also, Read more >
The Five People You Meet in Heaven, a book that held my heart and tear ducts in a stranglehold for basically the whole of seventh grade, is about to become a new series. Fox has announced that the book will Read more >
At the age of 10, Marley Dias created the viral hashtag #1000BlackGirlBooks after she was assigned to read yet another book “about a white boy and his dog.” Four years later, Coco Khan of The Guardian caught up with Dias to talk Read more >
In an example of life imitating art, or rather art imitating art, with the artists living within, Rachel Cusk and her husband, artist Siemon Scamell-Katz, live in a gorgeous, modern house they designed themselves on the Norfolk coast. “What we’ve Read more >
Researchers have used machine-learning (a reading robot!) to read 3.5 million books published between 1900 and 2008, and tally all the adjectives used to describe men and women. Not surprisingly, women in books are beautiful and men are true-hearted! Yup, Read more >
Congratulations to Selena Anderson, Magogodi oaMphela Makhene, Sarah Passino, Nicolette Polek, Elizabeth Schambelan, and Debbie Urbanski, who just won this year’s Rona Jaffe Foundation Award! For the past 25 years, the Rona Jaffe Foundation has been dedicated to supporting new female Read more >
Congratulations to Franny Choi, Jane Huffman, José Olivarez, Justin Phillip Reed, and Michael Wasson, who were today announced by The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine as the winners of the 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships. The fellowship program, Read more >
I have not watched Euphoria, but based on the trailer for Dickinson, a new Apple TV+ series about the (sexy, I think?) life and times of Emily Dickinson, I imagine the show was pitched as “Euphoria meets Bright Star, plus Jane Dickinson, a sexy series about young Emily Dickinson.">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 >
Are you a) a noted Tom Clancy stan? Or perhaps you b) just like fine waterfront properties and nice desks and living on the water? Either way, assuming you are also c) a millionaire, you’re in luck: Peregrine Cliff, the Read more >
Amazon, apparently intent on fostering the illest of will among book lovers, is opening a store directly across the street from Nashville’s Parnassus Books, an independent bookstore founded by Ann Patchett and Karen Hayes in 2011. (Full disclosure: I visited Read more >
