Let the bidding war for John Kelly’s tell-all memoir begin!
There are days when you look at your bank account and think to yourself, maybe I’ll go work in the Trump administration for a year, get fired, and write a… Read more »
Five great long reads by our authors in 2018
One of the great thing about our writers is being able to follow their activities beyond the book. We’re always curious to see where their journalistic noses have sniffing out and we… Read more »
An interview with the owner of a newly opened hometown bookstore
Ok, I’m lying to you guys. Because my father was in the military, I do not have a hometown to claim. Alexandria, Virginia, where my family was once stationed while… Read more »
A Brooklyn library was given literary landmark status
We all love libraries. But have you ever loved a library so much you wanted to see it immortalized in a work of art? Have you ever loved a library… Read more »
Reformed gang member killed outside his book launch
Copenhagen isn’t the first place that comes to mind when one thinks of mean streets and turf wars. Turns out the Danish capital is rife with gangs like the Black Cobras,… Read more »
The guy in charge of keeping undocumented youth detained is writing an anti-abortion book
If you keep up with the infuriating news about the Trump administration’s statements and actions against immigrants and refugees, then you are probably familiar with the name Scott Lloyd? The… Read more »
Five American born writers who served in the First World War
On November 11th at 11 am GMT, passed the hundredth anniversary Armistice Day, the day World War I came to an official end, and America, in leading the negotiations between the… Read more »
Five takeaways from Don DeLillo’s Guardian interview
Don DeLillo, possibly, probably, nearly ok definitely the greatest living male American writer gave a rare interview to the Guardian’s theatre critic Xan Brooks. The occasion for the interview was for another… Read more »
The Staunch Prize awards books that avoid violence against women
Shortlists. The Book Prize industry’s way of letting readers know that some books are good enough to receive an award. Of course, like anything compiled by humans, shortlists can be… Read more »
India’s most lucrative book prize has its first winner
As I reported many months ago, India has a new book prize, the 2018 JCB Prize for Literature. As I also mentioned, it is comes with the largest monetary reward of any… Read more »