Another step in the fast-developing international visibility of the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, Switzerland’s 50,000-franc Jan Michalski Prize has gone to her ‘The Books of Jacob,’ now being translated by Jennifer Croft. Read More
Wishing you the opportunities you crave and the resources you deserve in 2019. Read More
‘The constraint is a liberation,’ says film producer Tessa Ross, whose leadership of the Baileys judges for 2017 honors international women authors. Read More
Literature from France is the specialty of Albertine in Manhattan, the director of which recommends these books for francophone gift recipients. Read More
In an evening filled with references to the US general election, the National Book Award ceremony brought to the fore joy as ‘an act of resistance.’ Read More
How can we ask authors to ply the range and radiance of human experience if they’re expected to provide trigger warnings? – Porter Anderson Read More
‘Translators are wonderful readers,’ says Poland’s top-selling author, Zygmunt Miłoszewski, whose ‘Rage’ is out in English from AmazonCrossing. Read More
As marketers jockey for position in the 400th year of the death of Shakespeare , the modern-relevance lights burn bright. What ho? Read More
Here be ‘unprofessionals’ “Writing offline” seems almost an odd phrase today. You’ll find it—online—in Words Unwired, a commentary by Lorin Stein in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. We understand, of course, when he gets to the even odder term, “unprofessional,” that Stein, The Paris Review editor, is writing in support of the book he has edited,… Read More
Everything’s Coming Up Indie. Right? As slippery as the business of publishing-industry statistics is, the author Hugh Howey and his unnamed associate referred to as Data Guy have now given us a year of AuthorEarnings.com reports. This is a good thing. Despite Howey’s detractors and some of their misgivings, the AuthorEarnings series of interpretive essays have… Read More