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Beware a publicist bearing false credentials. The YA blog world is dealing with a catfishing situation. A blogger named Jon at Bookish Antics, writes of the odd bait and switch (that,… Read more »

Perhaps the most ubiquitous and influential writer in the history of the English language is getting a roadshow. In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s birth this year,… Read more »

In life, there are always big questions. But where can you find the big answers? From your local indie bookseller, of course! In this monthly feature, some of our favorite booksellers will… Read more »

Over the next few days, we’ll be offering a peek at the titles we have lined up for Spring. Lynne Truss’s novel Cat Out of Hell will be available in paperback on… Read more »

Denver’s Isis Books & Gifts isn’t the only bookstore to face challenges prompted by growing anti-Muslim sentiment. We previously wrote about vandalism of the independent bookstore in Denver’s Englewood neighborhood as a… Read more »

Back in November, we wrote about Isis Books & Gifts, a small, independent bookstore in Denver, Colorado that had been the victim of several acts of vandalism. Ignorant and/or confused, several… Read more »

One of the nation’s five oldest bookstores, Otto Bookstore (or as patrons refer to it: Otto’s), is up for sale. Publishers Weekly’s Judith Rosen reports that the announcement comes from Betsy Rider, the… Read more »

Over the next few days, we’ll be offering a peek at the titles we have lined up for Spring. Michael M. Thomas’s novel Fixers is out Jan 26, 2016. How did the… Read more »

A new edition of Nobel Prize-winner Rabindranath Tagore’s Stray Birds has drawn controversy from multiple camps, reports Neil Connor at The Telegraph. Foremost amongst the critics is—perhaps not-so-surprisingly—the Chinese government, which has pulled… Read more »

Bill Gates can add another accolade to his list—the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft is also a book critic. Katherine Rosman at The New York Times reports that Gates has garnered… Read more »

Over the next few days, we’ll be offering a peek at the titles we have lined up for Spring. Lavie Tidhar’s novel A Man Lies Dreaming is out March 8, 2016.… Read more »

Over the next few days, we’ll be offering a peek at the titles we have lined up for Spring. Alexei Nikitin’s novel Y. T. goes on sale April 12.  In Soviet Ukraine,… Read more »

When we first wrote about the four Hong Kong bookstore employees that went missing in November, there was immediate media speculation that the men had been detained by the Chinese government due… Read more »

Twenty years after David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest was originally published, the iconic cloud-dappled, block-lettered book cover design has been put to bed. Last August, Wallace’s longtime publisher, Little, Brown, announced… Read more »

Complex and confusing, filled with words you don’t know and people you don’t understand, life is even more difficult to navigate than Ulysses. But luckily, we have Ulysses to help… Read more »

Over the next few days, we’ll be offering a peek at the titles we have lined up for Spring. Simon Sylvester’s novel The Visitors is on sale now.  You’d be… Read more »

Three and a half years after pulling its entire list off Amazon, children’s book publisher Educational Development Corp (EDC) reports soaring profits. The move by the Tulsa-based company, which primarily sells books… Read more »

Amy X. Wang at Quartz reports that a heckler at the Jeddah International Book Fair had the tables turned on him when, instead of rallying the crowd against a female… Read more »

There’s trouble at the Stephen Spender Prize—this year’s winner, Allen Prowle, has withdrawn his entry and returned his prize money after being accused of plagiarism. The Stephen Spender Prize rewards… Read more »

AbeBooks, the prominent online marketplace for rare and used books, has released a list of the most expensive books sold on their platform in 2015. The top five includes rare… Read more »

Last week we asked you to #TitleYourHoliday by telling us which book best describes your holiday season for a chance to win MHP’s Holiday Survival galley bundle—three of our upcoming Spring 2016… Read more »

When we last reported on the television adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished novel The Last Tycoon, it was slated to air on HBO, and it was 2013. In the world of prestige TV… Read more »

Oh, woe! Less than a year after its inception, the Book Council of Australia has been scrapped “as part of $52.5 million in cuts to the Arts and Communications,” Dewi… Read more »

University of Iowa president Bruce Harreld raised more than eyebrows last week during a staff council meeting when he remarked that professors teaching without lesson plans “should be shot.”   As reported… Read more »

The quick and easy answer is an increasingly common one: a Russian oligarch. Last month, we covered Waterstone’s surprisingly profitable turn in 2015, and have previously discussed the company’s restructuring under new… Read more »

James Patterson is playing Ol’ Saint Nick this year. The bestselling author, who is known for his philanthropic support for literacy and reading initiatives, has awarded holiday bonuses totaling $250,000 to… Read more »

Fair warning, reader, this is a grisly one. In November, Atria published 438 Days, John Franklin’s account of “the true story of the fisherman who survived fourteen months in a… Read more »