Morrissey’s debut novel finds itself in good company this week—according the BBC, the Smiths frontman joins Ben Okri, Norman Mailer, Sebastian Faulks, and John Updike as the most recent winner of the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction prize.… Read more »

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Literary Review has announced the finalists for the best literary prize around: the Bad Sex Awards. The Bad Sex Awards have taken… Read more »

Last week, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced the winners of the 2015 prizes. The fiction award went to Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See—which was hailed in these… Read more »

This week would have marked the hundredth birthday of Dylan Thomas had he not drank himself to death at the age of 39 at The White Horse Tavern. Yet, The… Read more »

Before I worked as a server at a steak and seafood restaurant in North Carolina, I had never heard of “86” being used as a verb. But I caught on… Read more »

Turns out research libraries are collecting all kinds of things these days… Read more »

Wordsmiths, obviously, should know how to sting other writers. But some have proven especially good at it. Herewith, the ten historic barbs we think the most notable and the story… 1 / Read more »

The news of the seizure of three packages carrying roughly 11 pounds of marijuana being shipped to the good folks at St. Martin’s Press has spread far and wide. It… Read more »