Jennifer Egan has been named the president of PEN America
As we wrote earlier this year, this month sees the unification of the two discrete branches that have long represented PEN International in America, as PEN America absorbs its smaller, west-coast cousin, the PEN… Read more »
Jonathan Lethem papers, drawings of cats vomiting, and other oddities sold to Yale University
Yale University’s recently reopened Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired papers and assorted oddities from Motherless Brooklyn writer (and forthcoming Melville House author) Jonathan Lethem, reports Jennifer Schuessler of… Read more »
Politics is the worst. Can books bring us together?
There’s no question that this election has been an unending horror show, draining us of our will to live, or at least to talk to people who hold different (wrong)… Read more »
450 American authors bravely band together to publicly denounce the most reviled public figure in recent memory
Over at iPetitions.com, a group of 450 American authors have posted an open letter opposing the candidacy of Donald Trump, who, if you haven’t heard, is running for President of… Read more »
Twitter Fiction Festival: how technology is changing the face of fiction
The conclusion of the third annual Twitter Fiction Festival last week left a small legacy of interesting and innovative experiments in ergodic literature, and a greater sense that fiction is… Read more »
How much does a Pulitzer affect book sales?
Husna Haq of The Christian Science Monitor tracked sales for the 2013 winners just two weeks after the Pulitzer Prize was announced. The result? Money has not fallen from the… Read more »
Pulitzer Prize/Morning News Tournament of Books winners for 2013
Fear not, booksellers. The Pulitzer committee did not withhold its fiction prize this year. But this is a critical marker in the history of the prize: [SPOILER ALERT] it’s the… Read more »