Little, Brown to publish memoir of Charlie Hebdo editor finished two days before his murder
It’s been nearly a year since the attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, an attack that left 12 people dead after Islamic extremists opened fire during an editorial meeting at… Read more »
Burn This Letter: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway
Before his death in July of 1961, Ernest Hemingway wrote a letter to the executors of his estate saying, “It is my wish that none of the letters written by… Read more »
Carrie Brownstein: musician, writer, actress … minister?
Earlier this year, we made what we thought was a foolproof, ironclad argument against having author Q&As at the end of literary readings: these events are often held on or shortly after… Read more »
Amazon achieves total monopoly on irony with TV show about troubled workplace
On Thursday, Amazon will release the pilot episode of Good Girls Revolt, a series based on Lynn Povich’s nonfiction book of the same title. Both the book and the series recreate… Read more »
Hunger Games theme parks probably won’t feature human sacrifice ride
In one of the more unsettling forays into Hollywood franchising, Lionsgate Entertainment is moving forward with a plan to open two new amusement parks—one in Atlanta, another in Macau—based on Suzanne Collins’s… Read more »
Fall Books Preview: The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome
We’re only weeks away from the launch of our Fall 2015 season, but why wait until September? Over the next couple of weeks, we’re giving you an exclusive look at… Read more »
Fall Books Preview: Good on Paper
We’re only weeks away from the launch of our Fall 2015 season, but why wait until September? Over the next couple of weeks, we’re giving you an exclusive look at… Read more »
Fall Books Preview: Contraband Cocktails by Paul Dickson
We’re only weeks away from the launch of our Fall 2015 season, but why wait until September? Over the next couple of weeks, we’re giving you an exclusive look at… Read more »
Fall Books Preview: Not On Fire, but Burning, by Greg Hrbek
We’re only weeks away from the launch of our Fall 2015 season, but why wait until September? Over the next couple of weeks, we’re giving you an exclusive look at… Read more »
A whole new data point in the publishing gender bias
A new data point has entered the discussion of gender biases in the publishing world. Earlier this year, we reported on the “literary cooties” that seem to plague women in… Read more »