May 27, 2016

YALDA, the Young Adult Language & Devotion Alliance, was created to offer a “platform of support, in a spirit of friendship and dedication” to young women writers between the ages… Read more »

Education

East London charity celebrates 7000th book bike delivery — Tom Clayton
Oxford University Press pull Biff & Chip book over "scary" country pages — Tom Clayton
"Wot, No Books?" Milton Keynes library saved after protesters check out its entire stock — Tom Clayton
Little Toller and Bluemoose unite to aid Ukraine — Tom Clayton

450 American authors bravely band together to publicly denounce the most reviled public figure in recent memory

Simon Reichley

Over at iPetitions.com, a group of 450 American authors have posted an open letter opposing the candidacy of Donald Trump, who, if you haven’t heard, is running for President of… Read more »

Hip-hop-loving Chinese millennials are no longer reading magazines, they’re reading Marx

Ian Dreiblatt

By general consensus, Karl Marx is one of history’s more consequential writers. He certainly seems to have made his mark on the modern history of China, a country where Marxism… Read more »

In which your favorite booksellers sound off about their new favorite book

Martin Seay’s The Mirror Thief is enjoying a rapturous wave of publicity. In the The New York Times Book Review, Scarlett Thomas calls it “audaciously well-written…the book I was raving about to my… Read more »

Melville House Books

Support YALDA as they support young women authors

Julia Fleischaker

450 American authors bravely band together to publicly denounce the most reviled public figure in recent memory

Simon Reichley

Hip-hop-loving Chinese millennials are no longer reading magazines, they’re reading Marx

Ian Dreiblatt

In which your favorite booksellers sound off about their new favorite book

Liam O’Brien