A John Green-like debut novel from France draws international buyers; a memoir by a once-illiterate Colombian artist is pegged as a future Penguin Classic; Austrian bearded drag queen/pop singer Conchita Wurst prepares to bring her new book to next week's London Book Fair; and more. more » »
Oyster Adds E-book Retail
Oyster, the e-book subscription service launched in 2013, has added a retail component to its business. It is now offering more than a million e-books for sale, including titles from all of the Big Five publishers. more »
iBooks Bestsellers: Coben Chases Hawkins
Harlan Coben’s 'The Stranger' moved up one spot to reach #2 on Apple’s iBooks bestseller list for the week ended April 6, but Paula Hawkins’s blockbuster debut thriller, 'The Girl on the Train,' still held firm at #1. more » »
Atticus
Lish Wins 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Lish won for his first novel, 'Preparations for the Next Life.' He will take home $15,000, and each of the four finalists—Jeffery Renard Allen, Jennifer Clement, Emily St. John Mandel, and Jenny Offill—will receive $5,000. »
Lish won for his first novel, 'Preparations for the Next Life.' He will take home $15,000, and each of the four finalists—Jeffery Renard Allen, Jennifer Clement, Emily St. John Mandel, and Jenny Offill—will receive $5,000. »
Poets & Writers announced X.J. Kennedy as the winner of the ninth annual Jackson Poetry Prize. The $50,000 prize is given each year to an American poet of "exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition." »
The Most
Beautiful Lines in Poetry: Buzzfeed asked members of Buzzfeed
Community to share favorite lines of poetry in honor of National Poetry Month.
Here are some of their responses.
Jeter to Publish
Gronkowski: Jeter Publishing, Derek Jeter’s publishing
partnership with Simon and Schuster, announced that it will publish a book by
Rob Gronkowski, 'It’s Good to be The Gronk.'
Cast, Crew for
'11/22/63': Hulu is pushing ahead its TV adaptation of Stephen
King's JFK assassination novel, adding Chris Cooper, Lucy Fry, George MacKay,
Leon Rippy and Cherry Jones to the cast.
Amazon Building
Largest India Warehouse: Announcing the largest investment in
India so far, the online retail giant said Wednesday it would open a new
fulfillment center, its largest warehouse in the country, near Hyderabad.
Defender of the
Liberal Arts: Though Frederick Douglass believed vocational
education was key to empowerment, the former slave's writings offer a reminder
that subjects like literature and philosophy are still integral to social
mobility.
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