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Writers at the Atlantic look at writing and marriage; the effects of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s writing on his personal life; the death of Michael Rockefeller; and other news.
A twenty-four-hour bookstore in Beijing; Dylan Thomas Centre to receive grant; Naomi Shihab Nye on reading poetry out loud; and other news.
Joan Didion reviews Maggie Shipstead’s Astonish Me; looking ahead to the Los Angeles Festival of Books; British libraries branch out to attract visitors; and other news.
T. C. Boyle ends contract with Viking Penguin; Gabriel García Márquez hospitalized; the London Book Fair gets underway; and other news.
Polly Courtney, the author of six novels who self-published her latest, Feral Youth (2013), after being frustrated by the “chick-lit” covers assigned to her by HarperCollins, offers the first in her series of how-to videos on self-publishing.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s first new novel in ten years; remembering Peter Matthiessen, Brendan Behan, and Marina Keegan; what Percy Bysshe Shelley ate; and other news.
A game show winner turned bookseller; literary apps using cartography; the history behind Wes Anderson’s muse; and other news.
Graphic designer and filmmaker John Koenig reads from his “Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,” an original lexicon of emotions we don’t have words for. In this clip, he illustrates the word keta, “an image that inexplicably leaps back into your mind from the distant past."
Mathematical Poetry Month; the best books to celebrate warmer weather; John Updike’s home turf; and other news.
Jimmy Carter signs 1,600 books; a road trip to film dead poets; Sherman Alexie book banned in Idaho; and other news.
