October 30, 2018

As I reported many months ago, India has a new book prize, the 2018 JCB Prize for Literature. As I also mentioned, it is comes with the largest monetary reward of any… Read more »

Awards and ceremonies

New Carol Shields Prize for Fiction will pay big for women and nonbinary authors — Alyea Canada
When love turns sour: Romance awards cancelled amidst ongoing race row — Nikki Griffiths
Galley Beggar press turns to the public to recoup unexpected loss . . . human spirit prevails — Ryan Harrington
Greta Thunberg named TIME person of the year; jointly scoops Waterstones book of the year — Tom Clayton

A grown man in Iowa burned LGBTQ children’s books and live-streamed it on Facebook

Stephanie DeLuca

Something is rotten in the state of Iowa. As we reported back in February of this year, homophobes petitioned to have books with LGBTQ themes removed from general circulation at… Read more »

What Shirley Jackson has to say about writing

It’s almost Halloween, or at least almost that wondrously cold-hearted holiday where everyone basks in our imminent death. If you’re like me, you do that year-round. If you’re like Shirley Jackson,… Read more »

Book lover uses personal library to create imaginative scenes

Alyssa Monera

It takes a lot of creative effort to come up with new and inventive ways to pose books for Instagram – trust us, we know. But, one book influencer has stepped up her game to… Read more »

Melville House Books

India’s most lucrative book prize has its first winner

Michael Barron

A grown man in Iowa burned LGBTQ children’s books and live-streamed it on Facebook

Stephanie DeLuca

What Shirley Jackson has to say about writing

Michael Seidlinger

Book lover uses personal library to create imaginative scenes

Alyssa Monera