Who are the richest writers?
It’s awards season, and some high profile winners have already been announced: The Nobel went to Svetlana Alexeivich, Marlon James received the Man Booker, and Ta-Nehisi Coates claimed the National Book Award… 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 »
“Clean teen” is a dirty word
Yesterday Bloomsbury Children’s Books, one of the leading publishers of children’s fiction (whose authors include JK Rowling, Neil Gaiman and Benjamin Zephaniah), announced a new global strand of publishing: clean… Read more »
Needed: Gender-neutral covers, especially for boys
Shortly after Jane Eyre was first published, a skeptical male critic picked up a copy and started reading. “I found myself unable to put it down. At midnight I was on… Read more »