Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize for Literature makes all kinds of sense – So the first USian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in more than 20 years (Toni Morrison in 1993 was the last) is Bob Dylan rather than Philip Roth, as many had expected. How this will fuel the ... more >
Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards – The next couple of months are filled with award announcements, including the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Man Booker Prize (October 25th), and the National Book Award (November 16th – the full list of finalists can be found here; this article was ... more >
Awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature to Belarusian Svetlana Alexievich is a bold decision – I like this piece by Arifa Akbar because it focuses on the way Alexievich’s win “recalibrates the status of ‘non-fiction’ in the literary canon. I agree that there remains a perception that non-fiction is somehow less ... more >
Saga Press E-books To Be DRM-Free – So it seems like Simon & Schuster is experimenting with DRM-free books. However, going by this brief mention in Publishers Weekly, it doesn’t sound like they’re looking to broaden their selection of DRM-free content beyond SFF, and perhaps not even beyond this one ... more >