Brooklyn-based Restless Books launches Yonder, an imprint for young readers
The Brooklyn-based literature-in-translation publisher Restless Books has announced a children’s and young adult imprint called Yonder, reports Publishers Weekly’s Matia Burnett. Speaking with PW, Restless publisher and co-founder Ilan Stavans… Read more »
Richard Dawkins’s Berkeley radio event is cancelled over bad tweets about Islam
The rabble-rouser and author of The God Delusion Richard Dawkins lost himself a book promotion event in Berkeley, reports Berkleyside’s Frances Dinkelspiel, following a radio station’s decision to log in… Read more »
Twenty years later, Junot Díaz fulfills a picture-book-shaped promise to his goddaughters
Not-exactly-prolific (but very successful and cool!) author Junot Díaz (The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Drown) has written a picture book, reports Alexander Alter in the New York… Read more »
Sherman Alexie, citing depression and a dream, cancels his You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me book tour
“I don’t believe in the afterlife as a reality, but I believe in the afterlife as metaphor, and my mother, from the afterlife, is metaphorically kicking my ass.” That’s Sherman… Read more »
Locofo Chaps publishes over 100 poetry chapbooks for the first 100 days of Trump
Following the election of The Boss Baby, Locofo Chaps, an imprint of the Indiana-based poetry press Moria Books, made the decision to get Donald Trump’s first hundred days down in writing… Read more »
Good news, everyone: Bill O’Reilly’s book sales are down
At any other time in this country’s history, it might have been the biggest story of the year: the firing, and subsequent fall, of Fox News millionaire poster-boy, serial sexual… Read more »
Knox Professor publishes first-ever anthology of Quechua poetry
Last December, we reported that the Peruvian television station TV Peru was launching its first-ever program in Quechua, “the most widely spoken autochthonous language in Peru, with millions of speakers also… Read more »
New Pepe zine hopes to reestablish the cartoon frog as a symbol of love and acceptance
Matt Furie, the cartoonist responsible for the creation of Pepe the Frog, that iconic and most troubling of cartoons-turned-memes, has had a tough, and very weird, couple of years. We’ve… Read more »
Is Literary Iran ready to feel the Berne?
Enter a bookstore in Iran and you’re likely to be greeted by countless books that, although penned by familiar writers, you’ve never seen before: works long out-of-print, or never-before-in-print, elsewhere. Writing… Read more »
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