June 25, 2018

Last week the British children’s writer Geraldine McCaughrean took home the Carnegie Medal for her book Where the World Ends. Upon receiving her country’s most prestigious children’s award (which is selected by… Read more »

Awards and ceremonies

Greta Thunberg named TIME person of the year; jointly scoops Waterstones book of the year — Tom Clayton
Book prize judge resigns, claiming none of the other judges “had read all of the books in their entirety” — Athena Bryan
Nobel resignation drama matures into boycott stage — Athena Bryan
Two members resign from committee established to reform Nobel prize for literature — Athena Bryan

Taschen’s first shop in Asia will offer books in standard, deluxe, and premium models

Michael Seidlinger

There’s something new in the realm of publishers testing out bookstore business models. This time it’s German publisher Taschen, who’ve decided to open an upscale bookstore in Hong Kong—the company’s first in Asia—as Denise… Read more »

“A dark that you never see in nature”: America’s oldest poet died fourteen years ago today

Ian Dreiblatt

A sad and remarkable note: today makes the fourteenth anniversary of the death of Carl Rakosi, who was, when he died in 2004, the oldest working poet in the world. He… Read more »

“The outrageous has become the everyday”: Remembering Ingeborg Bachmann

Melville House

It’s wild to think that, had things turned out differently, the Austrian poet, librettist, and playwright Ingeborg Bachmann could be alive today. We can even imagine her throwing a joint ninety-second birthday party with Mel… Read more »

Melville House Books

What about children’s books makes us “easy to manipulate”?

Ryan Harrington