Mar 26 2021: Larry McMurtry, a prolific novelist and screenwriter who demythologized the American West with his unromantic depictions of life on the 19th-century frontier and in contemporary small-town Texas, died on Thursday. He was 84.
Over more than five decades, Mr. McMurtry ...
Mar 26 2021: The winners of the National Book Critics Circle awards have been announced:
Mar 25 2021: A series of 30 illustrations, maps and sketches created by JRR Tolkien while he was writing The Lord of the Ring are to be included in the epic fantasy novel for the first time since its publication in 1954.
Tolkien was always modest about his abilities as an artist:...
Mar 25 2021: Publishing professionals, independent booksellers, literary publicists and others throughout the book business have pledged to join a day of solidarity on March 26 in support of Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala., who are voting in a union election this month.
Mar 23 2021: The winners of the 2021 Windham-Campbell Prizes have been announced. Eight writers, who are being honored for their literary achievement or promise, will receive $165,000 each to support their work.
The prize is administered by Yale University. Two awards are given ...
Mar 23 2021: The Audio Publishers Association hosted the 26th annual Audie Awards virtually last night, making them open to the public for the first time.
The award for Audiobook of the Year was given to Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor (Bloomsbury).
Mar 23 2021: Joan Walsh Anglund, a prolific children’s author who earned the devotion of millions of readers with her sentimental depictions of little ones, their features often reduced to their all-seeing eyes in illustrations that sought to capture the essence of childhood, died ...
Mar 21 2021: ...The number of writing groups and people involved with them are difficult to count because formats and membership vary so widely, but participants interviewed by the New York Times said the groups have been thriving over the past year. Some of them are led by one or a...
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