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Hoda Barakat wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction; the athleticism of sports writing; Nicole Brossard honored with Griffin Trust lifetime achievement award; and other news.
Viet Thanh Nguyen on the “voice for the voiceless” label; the fifth annual Independent Bookstore Day; Prince memoir publication date announced; and other news.
Poets recommend poets; Kathy Fagan talks to Maggie Smith about playing the long game; Robert Caro on writing power; and other news.
Five ways to read the Mueller report; Kaveh Akbar on poetry and power; why some writers are still sniffy about science fiction; and other news.
The pressure to publish before thirty; Margaret Renkl on accumulating your book bit-by-bit; the activism of teenage poets; and other news.
Artificial intelligence in Ian McEwan’s new novel; women writers republished in Modern Library Torchbearers series; at home with the Comma Queen; and other news.
The book that rebuilt Notre Dame; Persephone’s twenty years of publishing women; six hundred stolen books returned to the University of Bonn; and other news.
A profile of E. L. James; Sarah Blake on writing weirdness in her new novel, Naamah; Julian Assange sends a message with a book; and other news.
The Young Lions Fiction Award finalists; a protracted tug-of-war with Bret Easton Ellis; the book Julian Assange carried to court; and other news.
In this video from the Wigtown Book Festival in Scotland, the Bookshop Band performs “Death to the Kindle” inspired by The Diary of a Bookseller (Melville House, 2018) by Shaun Bythell. English singer-songwriters Beth Porter and Ben Please compose music based on books and writers and are featured in News and Trends in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
