June 22, 2015

A key part of campaign law if you plan to run for president requires that you write a book, and it have a boring title. So it should come to no… Read more »

Authors

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
Amazon picks up The Last Tycoon adaptation, casts Kelsey Grammer in lead — Liam O'Brien
Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga denies eating his companion — Taylor Sperry

The Art of the Novella challenge 30: First Love

Jonathan Gibbs

Title: First Love Author: Ivan Turgenev First published: 1860 Page count: 124 First line: The party had long ago broken up. This seems like an apt companion piece to Benjamin… Read more »

And Other Stories takes on Shamsie’s “Year of Publishing Women” challenge

Taylor Sperry

Last week, we reported on novelist Kamila Shamsie’s call to make 2018 “The Year of Publishing Women”–a year in which publishers around the world agree to publish only books by… Read more »

Novelist Alexander McCall Smith wins a literary prize… and a pig

Alexander McCall-Smith, the novel and author of the bestselling No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series won the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, an award in the U.K. for humorous literature,… Read more »

Ontario’s Trillium Book Award goes to Kate Cayley

Nick Davies

Canadian writer Kate Cayley was awarded the Trillium Book Award last week, for her collection of short stories, How You Were Born. Deborah Dundas reports for the Toronto Star that… Read more »

Melville House Books

A complete breakdown of Rand Paul’s lies about the founding fathers

Liam O'Brien