Companies claim this is ‘fair use’. I think it’s a digital heistSign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morningAustralia’s close-knit literary community – from writers and agents through to the Australian Society of Authors –... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-03-06 23:17:54 UTC ]
An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2025-02-04 19:45:15 UTC ]
To the members of the literary community we lost this year, we say a last thank you, and goodbye. You will be missed. * Poet, novelist, and critic Fred Chappell died on January 4 at the age of 87. Bestselling celebrity biographer Anne Edwards died on January 20 at the age of 96. Pulitzer... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-02 09:56:02 UTC ]
Cherie Dimaline Wins NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature News and Events [email protected] Tue, 10/22/2024 - 17:01 World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-10-22 22:01:04 UTC ]
The founder and publisher of Black Classics Press and BCP Digital Printing will be presented with the National Book Foundation's Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community at this year's National Book Awards ceremony. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
After publishing my first novel Catalina I spiraled into strange despair. Writing, for me, had always been about connection, yet I felt both disconnected from what I’d written and by how it was being received. Had I written a noir? I hadn’t set out to. Was my protagonist unlikeable? I liked... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-08-19 08:56:33 UTC ]
Despite mounting objections from within the American literary community (as well as public condemnation from two prominent novelists who recently cut ties with the organization), on Wednesday evening PEN America’s Los Angeles branch went ahead with its hosting of a conversation between stand-up... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-02-02 19:14:45 UTC ]
To the members of the literary community we lost this year, we say a last thank you, and goodbye. | Lit Hub Shaan Sachdev pens an ode to Chandler Bing, “one of sarcasm’s most effective global exporters.” | Lit Hub Film & TV What Rachel Zucker is reading now and next, from Mary Ruefle’s The […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-12-14 11:30:20 UTC ]
To the members of the literary community we lost this year, we say a last thank you, and goodbye. You will be missed. * “Belated literary star” Edith Pearlman, who broke out with Binocular Vision at the age of 74, died on January 1. She was 86. Suzy McKee Charnas, award-winning author of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-12-14 09:51:11 UTC ]
The literary community holds onto empathy as a dear goal while navigating the complexities of the human experience through the eyes of characters from diverse backgrounds. Readers worldwide have long celebrated the promise of empathy as a conduit for profound understanding, and reading from... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-11-16 09:49:02 UTC ]
Ananda Devi Wins the 2024 Neustadt Prize News and Events [email protected] Tue, 10/24/2023 - 18:02 Ananda Devi, winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Photo by J. F. Paga, courtesy of GrassetNORMAN, OKLA. (Tuesday, October 24,... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-10-24 23:02:22 UTC ]
Novelist, poet, and educator Heba Abu Nada, a beloved figure in the Palestinian literary community and the author of Oxygen is Not for the Dead, was killed in her home south of Gaza City by an Israeli airstrike on Friday. She was thirty-two years old. In her final tweet, written in Arabic on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-10-24 15:54:33 UTC ]
In Memoriam Andrew Singer, by Clayton McKee In Memoriam [email protected] Mon, 09/11/2023 - 15:36 I walked into Webster’s, a local café in State College, Pennsylvania, to meet a professor for the first time to discuss a project on literary... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-09-11 20:36:23 UTC ]
If you are a debut author or a literary fiction and nonfiction stan, you’ve likely heard of Debutiful. Adam Vitcavage launched the podcast and website dedicated to highlighting the work of debut authors in January 2019. It has since become a beacon in the literary community, helping over 100,000... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-01-18 12:00:00 UTC ]
To the members of the literary community we lost this year, we say a last thank you, and goodbye. You will be missed. * F. Sionil José, “the grand old man of Philippine letters,” died on January 6 at the age of 97. Terry Teachout, the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal, died on January […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-12-14 09:59:24 UTC ]
We love to be active and engaged members of the literary community. We also love to not leave our bed. Now you can do both! * 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Celebration November 2 @ 7pm EST Hosted by Isaac Fitzgerald, this event will celebrate the winners of this year’s BPL Book Prize... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-11-02 13:30:38 UTC ]
Gail See, a Minneapolis-area bookseller for many years and a leader in Minnesota's literary community, who served as president of the ABA board from 1984-1986, has died at age 94. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-07-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
After the former book editor of the New York Times published an Op-Ed decrying trans-inclusive language, the online literary community spoke out. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-07-07 19:21:33 UTC ]
On today’s episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan is joined by Marjana Savka and Victoria Amelina from Ukraine, to discuss the current situation in Ukraine, what it’s like publishing books in Ukraine right now, and what we can still do to support the Ukrainian efforts against Russia. From... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-04-15 08:49:47 UTC ]
Dear Literary Community, We write to you from the Texas and North Carolina chapters of Writers for Democratic Action, a national organization committed to “bringing together the literary community to demand racial and economic justice, champion suffrage for all people, oppose impediments to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-03-21 08:49:57 UTC ]