Not only that, but it may not be a prize anymore: “Organisers of the women’s prize have said they want its next sponsor to pay for a year-long boost for women’s fiction, rather than a once-a-year celebration when the winner is declared.”
Category: words
Author Roxane Gay Pulls Her Book From Simon & Schuster, Citing Their Plan To Publish A Book By A Far-Right Favorite
Part of Gay’s statement: “I was supposed to turn the book in this month and I kept thinking about how egregious it is to give someone like Milo a platform for his blunt, inelegant hate and provocation. I just couldn’t bring myself to turn the book in.”
Magazines Submitted Little Fiction To The Contest, So A Prize Fades Away
Author Anthony Marra: “Writing, editing, and publishing short stories in literary magazines is a labor of love for all involved. … They aren’t clickbait. They don’t make much noise or much money. And yet the best of them long outlast the paper on which they were first printed.”
If Physical Books Endure – As They Surely Will – Let’s Make Sure They Do It For The Right Reason
It’s not about money. It’s about the senses. “As an empirical matter, reading on a tablet cannot remotely approach the sensual literary experience offered by an old-fashioned book. The latter is, I’d venture, intrinsically more pleasurable than the former, not unlike the intrinsic difference between high quality toilet paper and the sandpaper stuff used in bus stations.”
Yes, 1984 Relates To Us *Right Now*
Oh heck, let’s read a few pages: “Where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth.”
Why 1984 Keeps Needing New Print Runs And Everyone Is Tagging Margaret Atwood On Twitter
Because we’re suddenly living in a dystopian novel, or something like it, we keep wanting to read more and more of them.
NY Times Pares Back Its Bestseller Lists And Comics People Aren’t Happy
“The Times abruptly announced that it’s gutting its best-seller lists, doing away with a host of existing lists in both the print and online editions of the paper as of February 5. Among the casualties are the Graphic Hardcover, Graphic Paperback, and Manga categories. The comics world is, understandably, quite unhappy with the development.”
Is Book Collecting Anti-Social?
“One of the concerns in the early 19th century regarding book collecting was the fear that by hoarding books, buyers were denying their fellow countrymen their patrimony. The image of the rich dilettante was one of the conspicuous consumer of books that would never be read – the old TBR pile – therefore keeping books out of an intellectual commons. The collector was often portrayed as having a kind of antisocial disease that kept him from contributing to the greater good by sharing his printed riches.”
Quit Making Fun Of Academic Jargon – In The Age Of Trump, We Need It More Than Ever (Says Former Academic)
Rebecca Schuman (who, evidently, is still bitter over the Alan Sokal/Social Text incident), writes, “But now that we’ve just watched a sociopath with a fifth-grade vocabulary take the oath of office, … I have no choice but to come to jargon’s defense. Don’t worry: I’ll do it using small words.” (The commenters, however, are not having it.)
‘1984’ Isn’t The Only Classic Book Whose Sales Are Surging In The Trump Era
“1984‘s recent spike has been notable, but the novel has perpetually hovered on the bestseller list … For other works, though,” – by Sinclair Lewis, Hannah Arendt, and John Steinbeck – “their rise in popularity seems more directly linked to the emergence of Trump as a political leader.”