May 10, 2019

The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize hasn’t had the best form since its inauguration in 2000. The only big award in the UK to celebrate comic literature, it has shamefully just three… Read more »

Awards and ceremonies

Single billboard heralds arrival of new Hilary Mantel novel — Tom Clayton
What made this year's Man Booker International winners so damn notable? — Michael Barron
81-year-old debut novelist is shortlisted for a literary prize, so take that, ageists! — Michael Barron
For first time in eight years, a woman has won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction — Michael Barron

Day of the shred: interactive PC game invites you to destroy a book

Tom Clayton

In a move that will prompt shocked-face emojis across the publishing world, Bristol-based indie game developer Alistair Aitcheson has released The Book Ritual, an “interactive art-piece played using a real-world book of… Read more »

Testing out Google’s poem generator

Michael Seidlinger

Earlier this week, Google launched its AI poem generator, PoemPortraits, and you bet people all over the internet are tossing everything they can at it. How it works? It’s really… Read more »

Melville House Books

Are women funny? Prize news confirms yes, of course they bloody are

Nikki Griffiths

Day of the shred: interactive PC game invites you to destroy a book

Tom Clayton

Testing out Google’s poem generator

Michael Seidlinger