Bob Woodward has interviewed Trump for his follow-up to Fear
What comes after fear? Horror? Numbness? Tragedy? Something in between—say, a holding pattern of dazed, ambient anxiety? Better figure that out soon, because legendary reporter of Watergate fame, Bob Woodward,… Read more »
This week in newspeak: Donald Trump, The Environmentalist
Lest we begin to doubt the impact that books can have on the culture, in a backwards and entirely upsetting way, Donald Trump has reaffirmed the power of the written… Read more »
Book adaptations struggle at the box office in 2019
As noted by Paula Bernstein in Fortune, the big screen adaptations of several blockbuster novels of years past failed the impress critically or at the box office throughout 2019. These… Read more »
Remember when you all got mad about books being shelved page-side-out? Well…bad news…
Last May, an interior design tip to display books so their pages faced the room made it onto twitter.com and incited a day or two of genial outrage. This followed… Read more »
Book prize judge resigns, claiming none of the other judges “had read all of the books in their entirety”
Lesley McDowell, one of the five judges sitting on this year’s panel for the Saltire Scottish fiction book of the year award, announced her resignation from the panel on Monday.… Read more »
Nobel resignation drama matures into boycott stage
The Nobel prize in literature has been mired in resignations for years. It all started when a scandal erupted in 2017 involving charges of sexual misconduct and corruption. So many… Read more »
Two members resign from committee established to reform Nobel prize for literature
Two people have resigned from a committee that was established to oversee reforms to the Swedish Academy’s Nobel prize for literature. This puts the net resignation count for any committees… Read more »
Algorithms used to determine how much of “Henry VIII” Shakespeare actually wrote
You’ve got to love reading also-ran Elizabethan dramatists. Sometimes, if you’ve huffed too much cynicism about Great Men in the Literary Canon, you can start to convince yourself that Shakespeare… Read more »
This week in fraud: fake children’s books used to boost campaign finances
We are living in something of a golden age of fraud. It seems in the past four years, we’ve become acquainted with every permutation of misdeed involving a country in… Read more »
Success! Charlotte Brontë mini book secured by the Brontë Society
As we’ve previously discussed, a small piece of juvenalia by a 14-year-old Charlotte Brontë recently came back on the market, and the Brontë Society, who support and operate the Brontë… Read more »