It was 2018 when public defender and essayist Amalia Beckner first entered Harris County Jail in Houston. Beckner writes for the Houston Chronicle that despite jitters upon seeing high security measures… Read more »

What do you do after writing the bestselling memoir of all time, a book that sent you on a totally unprecedented stadium tour of book events and still sits comfortably on… Read more »

After an already award- and praise-filled spring, Sally Rooney’s latest novel, Normal People, just took home the biggest prize of the night at the British Book Awards, beating, according to… Read more »

Michelle Obama’s memoir, Becoming, is becoming (sorry) the best selling memoir of all time. According to a report from Stephanie Merry at The Washington Post, the book from the former… Read more »

According to a report by New York Post’s Keith J. Kelly, Penguin Random House is feeling the financial pressure in 2018. Released last week, the major publishing company’s 2017 revenue… Read more »

It’s been a year and a half since the anxiety-and-fear-drenched American Fall of 2016. Luckily, we can expect a hint of joy and light to break through this November — according to Andrew R. Chow… Read more »

Yesterday, CNN announced it had obtained “an internal document” from the Trump administration, outlining the discontinuation of Michelle Obama’s “Let Girls Learn” program — an education initiative aimed at providing opportunities… Read more »

As we near the symbolic hundredth day of our new administration, we can all relax as everything seems to be proceeding normally, and the gears of power are turning as if they… Read more »

Earlier this year we wrote about Marley Dias’s quest to gather 1000 books starring black girls and women of color and send them to a low-resources library St. Mary’s, Jamaica.… Read more »

The Obamas haven’t breathed a word about whether their futures bend toward the literary, but that hasn’t stopped the press from speculating about the kind of income they could generate… Read more »