Sara Craven 1938-2017 – It’s been a bad few weeks for Romance, with the untimely death of Miranda Neville, and now news of Sara Craven’s passing. Craven wrote for Mills and Boon/Harlequin for more than 40 years, and she was approaching her 100th book. Born in 1938, Craven also won ... more >
New York Times & Wall Street Journal Prepare To Slash Entertainment Coverage And Staff As Print Ads Vanish – Despite denials from the paper itself, the New York Times is, according to multiple sources, preparing to vastly reduce their arts coverage (they already cut their tri-state coverage earlier this fall). The Wall Street Journal ... more >
Ta-Nehisi Coates Wins National Book Award – The least surprising, but nevertheless moving, win of the night was Ta-Nehisi Coates for his non-fiction work, Between the World and Me. Adam Johnson won the award for Fiction, Neal Shusterman for Young People’s Literature, Robin Coste Lewis for Poetry, James Patterson won the Literarian Award, and Don DeLillo won ... more >
Man Booker Prize 2015: Marlon James wins for A Brief History of Seven Killings – An almost 700-page book that, according to the judging committee’s chair, Michael Wood, is “full of swearing” (!), James’s novel was apparently an easy choice for the judges. James will receive £50,000 for his winning novel. Set ... more >
“we will need writers who can remember freedom”: ursula k le guin at the national book awards – A transcription of Ursula Le Guin’s speech at the National Book Awards ceremony Wednesday night. Le Guin’s comments have been getting a lot of attention, in part because of her assault on ... more >