October 27, 2016

#SavePepe: Matt Furie, fellow artists, and the Anti-Defamation League team up to cover the internet with posi Pepes

To quote a colleague, “This fucking election.” Earlier this month, we reported on the alt-right’s hijacking of the Internet’s favorite cartoon amphibian, Pepe the Frog. Yes, somewhere over the course… Read more »

Comics

8-year-old author who smuggled his handwritten book into his local library becomes a literary sensation — Nikki Griffiths
Kickstarter launched for new online literary magazine Fictionable — Nikki Griffiths
Stormzy's #Merky imprint to publish first children's book — Tom Clayton
Tintin Artwork to Fetch 2.5 Million Euros; Belated Bonanza for Belgian — Mike Lindgren

US author wins the UK’s most prestigious literary prize

Nikki Griffiths

Paul Beatty has become the first ever American to win the the Man Booker Prize, the leading literary award for fiction written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom.… Read more »

Philip Roth is donating his private book collection to the Newark Public Library

Taylor Sperry

Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award–winning author Philip Roth is donating his collection of 4,000 books to Newark Public Library, the writer’s “other home” while he was a student at… Read more »

It may be the Devil, or it may be the Lord, but someone finally told Bob Dylan that he won the Nobel (or did they?)

Liam O’Brien

Whew!(?) For brief moment, it appeared that the results of the most important contest in the land would finally be recognized as legitimate. I’m referring, of course, to the news that Bob… Read more »

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