Jump to navigation Skip to content
Amazon Literary Partnership awards $1 million to nonprofits; Elena Ferrante on the power of female storytelling; Raymond Antrobus wins Rathbones Folio Prize; and other news.
Leah Stewart to lead the Sewanee Writers’ Conference; Jayson Greene turns to Dante to write about grief; what to watch after Game of Thrones; and other news.
Guy Gunaratne wins Dylan Thomas Prize; Best Translated Book Awards finalists announced; the new era of book clubs; and other news.
The sequel to Michael Wolff’s bestselling Fire and Fury; translating one hundred novels from thirteen Indian languages into English, Ani DiFranco’s favorite music memoirs; and other news.
Obama’s spring reading list; George R. R. Martin has definitely not finished last two books of A Song of Ice and Fire; Terese Svoboda finds water in the desert; and other news.
Free excerpts from Buzz Books; Binnie Kirshenbaum on writing unreasonable characters; Jamila Woods sets a literary legacy to music; and other news.
Karen Russell on the intersection of the human and nonhuman; Richard Powers on the larger story of trees; Poet Lore executive editors bid farewell; and other news.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg’s book deal; Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s debut fiction collection; Rigoberto González on the literature of Arizona; and other news.
JT LeRoy is a biopic based on the book Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy (Seven Stories Press, 2008), Savannah Knoop’s memoir about her experience spending six years impersonating the celebrated author and literary persona of her sister-in-law Laura Albert. Directed by Justin Kelly, the film stars Laura Dern, Diane Kruger, Courtney Love, Kristen Stewart, and Jim Sturgess.
Penguin Random House’s program to replace Baker & Taylor; the cult Kurdish jihadi poet Khider Kosari; indie books that went big; and other news.
