October 16, 2013

Eleanor Catton has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries. At 28, the Canadian-born, New Zealand-bred, Iowa-educated Catton is the youngest author to ever win the award. A 848… Read more »

Awards and ceremonies

Protesting sexism, comic book artists pull out of running for Angoulême Grand Prix — Liam O'Brien
20th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest features fan-designed cover — Kait Howard
Siren İdemen wins inaugural Talât Sait Halman Translation Prize — Chad Felix
PEN urges Chinese government to free dissident poets Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia — Chad Felix

Behind the Booker scenes: the gaffes and the punch-ups

Zeljka Marosevic

“There are many things I regret doing and being a judge for the Booker prize is one of them”. This is Paul Bailey, speaking about being a judge in 1982,… Read more »

One out of every ten people in Iceland will try to sell you his book

Kirsten Reach

Iceland is experiencing a book boom, according to Rosie Goldsmith of the BBC, with “more writers, more books published and more books read, per head, than anywhere else in the… Read more »

Chicago library patrons influence book purchases with new pilot program

Claire Kelley

The Chicago Public Library and its 80 branch locations have received a $300,000 grant from the Illinois State Library to create a Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) pilot program. Ingram will… Read more »

Bryan Cranston, Tom Hanks, Ken Burns team up for American history audiobook series

Nick Davies

Now that Breaking Bad has wrapped up, people will be waiting to see what Bryan Cranston’s next move is; and one of them, at least, will be to record the… Read more »

Melville House Books

Eleanor Catton wins Man Booker Prize

Alex Shephard