The fiction longlist for the National Book Award is here
Hours after releasing a controversial nonfiction longlist that included only one woman (and nine men), the National Book Awards released its longlist for fiction. The list first appeared on The… Read more »
Major literary holidays other than Read an eBook Day
Americans take their holidays seriously. Just look at the orgy of barbecuing that occurs on Labor Day, the orgy of turkey consumption that occurs on Thanksgiving, or the orgy of… Read more »
Alison Bechdel wins MacArthur “genius grant”
Unless you’ve been living a peaceful but uninformed life under a rock for the past decade, you’ve probably heard the name Alison Bechdel. The cartoonist, who made significant literary waves… Read more »
Madeline, the classic children’s book character created by Ludwig Bemelmans, turns 75
In a house in Paris that was covered with vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines… Madeline, the beloved children’s book character created by author and illustrator Ludwig Bemelmans… Read more »
“You speak a language that I understand not,” or, Brits fund Mandarin translation of Shakespeare
The Royal Shakespeare Company will get 1.5 million pounds ($1.63 million in real money) from the British government to translate all of William Shakespeare’s works into Mandarin. The effort, said British… Read more »
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