Margaret Atwood is currently working on a manuscript that most of us will never have the opportunity to read. Alison Flood writes for the Guardian that the Canadian author has… Read more »

HBO is developing a television adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, Nellie Andreeva reported in an exclusive for Deadline last week. Darren Aronofsky—director of Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan—has… Read more »

Last week, Margaret Atwood was scheduled to appear at Symphony Space in New York to host a celebration of Alice Munro’s receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature. Munro hasn’t made… Read more »

Authors from across the world have signed a petition condemning state surveillance like that carried out by the NSA, as revealed by Edward Snowden earlier this year. Their petition, which… Read more »

Doris Lessing died on Sunday. She was the author of numerous novels, short story collections, plays, librettos and memoirs, and her work spanned multiple genres and modes of inquiry as… Read more »

The relatively small degree of overlap between the Canadian and U.S. literary scenes is one of the mysteries of American publishing: we all live on the same continent, after all,… Read more »

Margaret Atwood retired from the business of writing blurbs — one of the ugly things we must do as editors is conjure up some supportive words for the back jacket… Read more »

How did Alice Munro find out she won the Nobel? Her daughter woke her up at 4 AM to tell her, and the Nobel committee left her a few voicemails… Read more »

Alex Shephard: Hello Dustin, you “real heterosexual guy,” you. Read any good books lately? Dustin Kurtz: Aw, Alex, that’s the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me. I must say,… Read more »

In the face of the rise of digital publishing, a librarian at the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library is holding an exhibition that celebrates the book as… Read more »