The Washington Post unveils a virtual literary event calendar
If you’re one of those people who bought a 2020 planner while confidently announcing that this is the year you will get your life together and go to more events… Read more »
The New York Public Library brings the sounds of the city to your home
If you’re living in New York City, you know that it’s quiet. Uncomfortably quiet. Not quite horror movie quiet, but basically birds, delivery trucks, and ambulances make up the majority… Read more »
The coronavirus delivers a huge hit to the comic book industry
The coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on all that we love and at this point there isn’t an industry that hasn’t been touched. In book publishing, booksellers have been adapting… Read more »
Help available for U.S. booksellers in the time of COVID-19
The necessity of social distancing became real for many Americans this weekend as more people started working from home and schools, libraries, and businesses announced closures in response to COVID-19… Read more »
Reminder: don’t put food in your books
Remember that whole “Don’t have a bookmark?” meme that horrified bibliophiles everywhere last fall? The one where everyone from Chex Mix to Vitamin Water to Steak-Umm suggested using their products as… Read more »
Care to rent Dashiell Hammett’s old apartment?
Do you love noir fiction, have $1850 per month, and could handle living in something (alarmingly) called a microstudio? If the answer to those questions is yes, then you’ll be… Read more »
New Carol Shields Prize for Fiction will pay big for women and nonbinary authors
Like many of us, Canadian novelist Susan Swan was disheartened to learn that female writers continue to lag behind male writers in terms of coverage and literary prizes. Despite modest… Read more »
New bill threatens to jail Missouri librarians over “age-inappropriate” content
Remember when that library in China got caught burning books deemed subversive by the government? Well, Missouri has decided to throw its hat into the dystopian ring with a bill… Read more »
Turns out AI writes bad poetry
Over at LitHub, Dennis Tang penned an essay examining the poetry of GPT-2, an artificial language program created by a San Francisco-based research firm called OpenAI. In the grand tradition… Read more »
There’s a lot to unpack in the controversy surrounding American Dirt
If you were even remotely tapped into the American publishing industry in 2019 you likely heard about Jeanine Cummins’s novel American Dirt. Positioned by publisher Flatiron Books as the book… Read more »