Fall for the Book announces a new award for writing by immigrants
We are, as we always have been, a nation of immigration. According to Jie Zong, Jeanne Batalova, and Jeffrey Hallock of the Migration Policy Institute, almost 14% of all people living in America were… Read more »
Literary hotels make for great latter-half-of-summer vacays
Raise your hand if you’ve ever wanted to board in some swanky library suite or bookstore nook. Well, now you kind of can. Literary hotels are beginning to pop up… Read more »
Stormzy didn’t just bag a book deal — he got a whole dang imprint
Shut up… Stormzy has his own publishing imprint? With Penguin Random House? Bruv! That’s right. #Merky Books, will be under the curatorial vision of one of England’s greatest grime rappers (If… Read more »
There’s a big pile of free books in Tennessee
Have you ever dreamed of owning a used book store but found yourself scratching your head on just where oh where you might find some used books? Well then head… Read more »
You’ve heard of publishers getting robbed, but not like this
One time, many years ago, a friend of mine was mugged outside of a South Brooklyn bodega. It was late, and he was coming back from a publisher’s party. We were… Read more »
Recognizing dehumanizing language in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s writing, the ALA decides to remove her name from an award
On Saturday, the board of the American Library Association’s Association for Library Services to Children released this statement: At its meeting on Saturday, June 23, 2018, the Association for Library Service to Children… Read more »
A literary architect is erecting a swanky library In Queens
I jog a route from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where I live, to Hunter’s Point, Queens, directly north. Hunter’s Point, the slim neighborhood wedged between Long Island City and the East River, is home to a… Read more »
We put together an anthology of soccer writing for World Cup season
It seems nuts to me that, at the same time America is separating immigrant families, keeping kids in custody while kicking their parents back across the Mexican border (or hauling them by… Read more »
I, for one, welcome our New Apple Book overlords
iBooks: great for pounding down digital manuscript submissions, binge-sampling published books, and helping to obliterate the printed word. iBooks might lack for personality and features, but hey, it’s still better than reading… Read more »
The people to know in Paul Manafort’s orbit
Out of all the people to have been indicted in Robert Mueller’s collusion probe, Paul Manafort could have his own spin-off in the Trump / Russia saga. Manafort plays such a big… Read more »