New types of deals between Audible and authors might mean trouble for publishers
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 »
Does no one read short stories because no one sees ’em? Or does no one see short stories because no one reads ’em?
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 »
Surprise! An American wins the Man Booker again
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 »
The 2017 Man Booker Shortlist is as American as half an apple pie
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 »
Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman option George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo
It’s always a kind of windfall when a publisher (or an agent who’s held onto performance rights) sells a book’s film option to a production company — not necessarily because… Read more »
George Saunders’s new novel will have a record-setting audio edition
The much-anticipated first novel by George Saunders—beloved essayist, short story writer, and What We Do Now contributor—is nearly here. Entitled Lincoln in the Bardo, it is a surreal extrapolation of the (actual, historical)… Read more »