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Haruki Murakami withdraws his nomination for the alternative Nobel Prize; Ian Buruma on his decision to publish Jian Ghomeshi; imagined Tinder exchanges between literature’s great couples; and other news.
The Jane Austen Pineapple Appreciation Society; Mark Tauber to lead new nonfiction imprint at Chronicle Books; the growth of Chinese American literature; and other news.
Bob Woodward’s Fear has already sold 1 million copies; romance novelist charged with killing husband; the fight over Franz Kafka’s manuscripts; and other news.
The National Audubon Society, National Geographic, BirdLife International, and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have teamed up to declare 2018 the Year of the Bird, to celebrate and draw awareness to the centennial of the signing of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. As you go about your daily tasks this week, keep an eye out for the birds that you encounter, whether flying overhead, perched in trees, or underfoot. Write an essay inspired by the feathered friends that fly in and out of your day. What memories or emotions do birds bring to mind? Have they been symbolic of an important moment in your life?
Gary Shteyngart on “one of the most unexpected and crushing lines in fiction”; Whiting Foundation expands its annual literary magazine prizes; Ron Charles takes down James Frey’s Katerina; and other news.
Saint Rita’s Traveling Bookstore; the ultimate round-up of Fall 2018 books; books everyone lies about having read; and other news.
Memoir by John Steinbeck’s second wife to be published; Teju Cole on the meaning of resistance; poet Dorothea Lasky on poetry and obsessions; and other news.
Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell’s illustrated essay on the importance of reading; Eileen Myles talks politics and poetry; Jonathan Lethem’s Trump-inspired detective story; and other news.
“It was sad. I would rather talk to my idea of a person, a fantasy ghost-person that existed only in my imagination, than talk with my own parents.” Patty Yumi Cottrell, author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney’s, 2017) and a recipient of a 2018 Whiting Award in fiction, reads from her essay “My Abyss.”
Leo Tolstoy’s vegetarian cookbook; Mark Twain’s writing advice; literary podcast recommendations; and other news.
