Nov 03 2021: Damon Galgut has won the Booker prize for his portrait of a white South African family navigating the end of apartheid. The judges praised The Promise as “a spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh”, and compared it to the work of ...
Nov 02 2021: The U.S. Department of Justice has sued to block Penguin Random House parent company Bertelsmann’s proposed acquisition of Viacom CBS subsidiary Simon & Schuster, arguing that it “would result in substantial harm to authors.” ... The DoJ alleges that the proposed ...
Oct 28 2021: A new online advertisement released this week by Glenn Youngkin, the Republican candidate, features a mother who pushed to have Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” banned from her son’s English curriculum eight years ago, citing the book’s graphic scenes. When that failed, she ...
Oct 21 2021: The celebrated illustrator Jerry Pinkney has died. According to his long-time agent Sheldon Fogelman, Pinkney suffered a heart attack today; he was 81.
Pinkney was a legend in the world of children's publishing. He won a Caldecott medal for his 2010 picture book The ...
Oct 21 2021: The Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust has announced the creation of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for a single work of imaginative fiction.
The first $25,000 prize will be awarded on October 21, 2022 (Le Guin’s birthday). and will honor a writer "whose work ...
Oct 19 2021: The World Health Organization on Wednesday honored the late Henrietta Lacks, whose cells have been used for innovative scientific research for decades, with an award in recognition of her contributions to the advancement of medical science.
Lacks, a Black woman, was ...
Oct 18 2021: The powerhouse children’s publisher, known for Harry Potter, had been passed from father to son until Iole Lucchese, a top executive, was given control.
When her phone buzzed on June 6, Iole Lucchese was still absorbing a shock that had come the day before. Her ...
Oct 18 2021: Though the pandemic caused financial hardship for many independent bookstores, particularly those in cities and states that forced retailers to close their doors for months, it has also paved the way for a mini-boom of bookstore openings...
...While acknowledging ...
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