Here we are, the end of November, and for those of you that took part in NaNoWriMo (or are nearing the end of a draft or deadline), I bet you’re… Read more »

If you’re plugging along through NaNoWriMo this month, odds are, you could use some writing advice. So, take a cue from the fiction writer George Saunders. As a graduate student,… Read more »

In the beautiful American city of Brooklyn, near the Navy Yards and the future location of what will be the five boroughs’ first Wegman’s (we await you all breathless, o noblest grocery chain), between the crook… Read more »

The expanding audiobook market feels a bit like the wild west. It shouldn’t, really — audiobooks have been around for a while, and I thought we had agreed that they… Read more »

The shortlist for the Golden Man Booker —a one-time-only literary prize that is meant to determine the best novel of the past fifty years—has been announced. As reported earlier on this very… Read more »

Excellent tidings for those persons of taste and refinement who’ve been breathlessly awaiting the final season of Broad City: Abbi Jacobson, who plays Val Abbi on the show, has a book of essays forthcoming this… Read more »

2017 was a triumphant year for the short story. Whether in the form of the gushing critical reception (and a spot on the National Book Award shortlist) for a collection like Carmen Maria… Read more »

Although National Giving Day has already passed, there are still a bunch of very needy organizations out there trying to punch into the black for 2017. One of them is The… Read more »

The winner of the Man Booker Prize, the UK’s most prestigious literary award, has been announced, and it’s a book by an American. Again. George Saunders, beloved short-story author and What… Read more »

When we last checked in with the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, feathers had been ruffled. Stiff British feathers. It was 2016, and Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout, had just… Read more »