Spring Books Preview: Cat Out of Hell by Lynne Truss
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 »
Spring Books Preview: Y. T. by Alexei Nikitin
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 »
In sweeping budget cuts, Australian government scraps Book Council
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 »
Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga denies eating his companion
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 »
Two Roman queens may have inspired Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth
William Shakespeare has been credited with no less than inventing the human, but fresh research from Dr. John-Mark Philo of East Anglia University suggests that the bard’s Lady Macbeth might… Read more »
Tea Party chair calls for UN fund-raising book by Kermit the Frog to be banned
In today’s edition of banned children’s books, we bring you the case of teacher and Tea Party chairwoman Mary Carney, who wants For Every Child, a Better World, a children’s… Read more »
After Trump proposes ban on Muslims, #Voldetrump hits twitter
In case you missed it, earlier this week Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called to ban all Muslims from entering the United States. The proposal is not only totally illegal,… Read more »
Novelist Michel Faber throws the book—his—at British P.M. David Cameron
In “a satirical gesture, just to let off some impotent steam,” author Michel Faber has sent a gratis copy of his latest (and, he says, his final) novel, The Book… Read more »
The Poetry of Trump
Later this month, HarperCollins will publish reporter and humorist Hart Seely’s Bard of the Deal: The Poetry of Donald Trump, a book of poems crafted from interviews, speeches, and tweets… Read more »
A new pronoun in the Mx.
For the Observer, Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke reports that while you were busy eating leftover turkey last weekend, the New York Times was grappling with a potential change to their style guide.… Read more »