October 20, 2017

VIDA: Women in Literary Arts released their 2016 survey results this week. Each year, the count tracks representation in literary media by gender. This is the first one to factor in age… Read more »

Women

More Bond-related books set for 2022, with first female author at the helm — Tom Clayton
Northumberland mum donates hundreds of pounds worth of books to women's refuge — Tom Clayton
1911 NYT nugget suggests fiction-divorce connection; "rose-color books" cited — Mike Lindgren
New Edinburgh book shop focusing on women's writing opens this summer — Tom Clayton

I know my calculus: It says Vice + Vogue = $$$

Alex Primiani

Let’s say you’re really into fashion and luxury, but also really into gritty, hipster exposés and video… where would you turn for your daily news intake? If you fall in… Read more »

Walling off Russia leaves Ukraine with a bare market for books

So, things haven’t been great between Ukraine and Russia for the past few years. At the end of 2016, Ukraine passed a law prohibiting the importation of “foreign products with anti-Ukrainian content.” A few weeks later,… Read more »

Happy birthday, Elfriede Jelinek!

Melville House

Happy seventy-first birthday to Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek! Best known for her novels and plays, she’s also written essays, screenplays, and poems, all of them marked by stark intelligence, far left… Read more »

Melville House Books

The 2016 VIDA Count is out, adds intersectional tracking based on age and educational background

Simon Reichley

I know my calculus: It says Vice + Vogue = $$$

Alex Primiani

Walling off Russia leaves Ukraine with a bare market for books

Ian Dreiblatt

Happy birthday, Elfriede Jelinek!

Melville House