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Oct 16 2018: Anna Burns won the 2018 Man Booker Prize for her third novel, Milkman. Burns, 56, is the first writer from Northern Ireland to win the Booker. She accepted the prize tonight at a lavish ceremony in London.
Burns’s dark, experimental novel is about a bookish 18-year-...
Oct 15 2018: The New Academy Prize in Literature 2018 has been awarded to Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé. She is the author of about 20 novels, including I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem; Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood; Windward Heights; Victoire: My Mother...
Oct 12 2018: A spate of global phishing scams attempting to access agencies' and publishers' manuscripts and other sensitive information prompted Penguin Random House North America to issue an urgent warning to all staff.
The PRH email was circulated with the subject line "...
Oct 12 2018: The deadline is approaching to cast votes for the USA's best-loved novel. To date, more than 3.8 million votes have been cast.
Organizers of The Great American Read have released a Top 10 list of the leading candidates. The winning book will be revealed in the "Grand ...
Oct 11 2018: The number of self-published books topped the 1 million mark for the first time in 2017, according to Bowker’s annual report on the number of ISBNs that were issued to self-published authors. The total number of ISBNs issued last year rose 28% over 2016, to 1,009,188. ...
Oct 10 2018: The finalists for the National Book Award are in, and this year, there’s more of them than ever before.
For 2018, the National Book Foundation has added a new category for translated literature, in what seems to be an attempt to push back against the idea that ...
Oct 09 2018: Handbags, briefcases and ties can be checked out for up to three weeks at a time at the Riverside branch of the New York Public Library, as part of a pilot program dreamed up by Michelle Lee, a young adult librarian...
Oct 08 2018: Johns Hopkins University just announced that the school will name a new research building after Henrietta Lacks, the "mother of modern medicine" whose cancer cells revolutionized medical research--and whose story came to the public's attention through Rebecca Skloot's ...
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