British poetry publisher starts its own audiobook series
Poetry has never been a literary art meant to remain on the page. Poets are performers are heart, taking to the stage to give voice and body to their texts.… Read more »
Jakarta’s First Ever Literary Festival to Focus on Asian and African Writers
Nothing like a non-Western literary festival to reinvigorate contemporary literature. As the Jakarta Post points out, authors from Asia and Africa are to take center stage at the first-ever Jakarta International… Read more »
Five things to know about the Booker longlist
The Booker Foundation released the long list for its annual prize. And if you look hard enough, you’ll soon be looking like this guy: Here’s what you need to know.… Read more »
The British Library is now home to the Granta archive
As noted by several literary news agencies, including The Bookseller, the British Library has acquired the archives of Granta, the 130 year-old taste making literary journal and publisher. And its not just back issues of… Read more »
Forthcoming book chronicles the story of Qandeel Baloch
This past Sunday, the Guardian featured a piece by Rachel Cooke on fellow journalist Sanam Maher and her book A Woman Like Her: The Short Life of Qandeel Baloch, which is out… Read more »
Los Angeles shows off its literary plumage with a new book fair
Watch out, New York. Los Angeles is once again stepping on your literary dominance. According to the Los Angeles Times’s Michael Schaub, the esteemed literary journal Los Angeles Review of Book and… Read more »
After 300 years of men, a woman Is finally elected as Oxford Professor of Poetry
Since 1708, Oxford has elected 45 poets to its prestigious post of the Oxford Professor of Poetry. Until this year, all of them have been men. According to Katie Mansfield… Read more »
The most controversial landmark in NYC may now be the Strand
New York City has a new landmark—a bookstore. Break out the bubbly for The Strand, Manhattan’s legendary bookstore, just don’t expect to be cheered by the owners. Reporting for Publisher’s… Read more »
International writers feeling the burn of Brexit in prep for Edinburgh Book Festival
There is nothing more of a pain in the butt than for a cultural ambassador from one country to be denied entry into another. But it happens often, with greatening frequency, to… Read more »
Rudolph Herzog has a new book and a new film, what about you?
Veteran Melville House author Rudolph Herzog sure knows how to spin plates. In addition to making his English fiction debut this October with the spooktacular story collection Ghosts of Berlin,… Read more »