All-American lineup for oddest book of the year award
The six-book shortlist has been unveiled for the 2023 Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year, and all are from American publishers. The winning title is chosen by members of the...
“Prophet Song” by Paul Lynch wins 2023 Booker prize
Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker prize for his fifth novel Prophet Song, set in an imagined Ireland that is descending into tyranny. It was described as a "soul-shattering and true"...
National book awards: finalists use ceremony to call for Israel-Hamas ceasefire after sponsors pull...
A majority of this year's finalists at the national book awards made a collective statement calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war at the ceremony in New York on Thursday, amid a storm...
This book club spent 28 years reading “Finnegans Wake,” and now they’re starting again,...
For a quarter century, Gerry Fialka, an experimental film-maker from Venice, California, has hosted a book club devoted to a single text: James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, one of the most famously difficult texts in...
Zibby Media withdraws National Book Award sponsorship over potential for “hate speech”
Ahead of this year's National Book Awards ceremony, publisher Zibby Media has withdrawn its sponsorship of the event after learning that some authors were planning to use the awards ceremony to call for a...
“Books keep our minds free”: US prisons ban reading materials at alarming pace
Reading bans are rising at an alarming rate in prisons across the U.S. according to new PEN America data, and are often less documented than bans in other settings, making it hard to determine...
“AI” named most notable word of 2023 by Collins dictionary
The technology that is set to dominate the future – for good or ill – is now the word of the year. "AI" has been named the most notable word of 2023 by the...
Purchase of Simon & Schuster returns it to a standalone company for the first...
As of yesterday, the KKR purchase of Simon & Schuster from Paramount Global has been officially completed. With the $1.62 billion all?cash transaction, S&S is now a standalone private limited liability company, and the...
Scholastic apologizes, will end controversial book fair offering
Amid a chorus of criticism from authors, librarians, educators, and freedom to read advocates, Scholastic this week said it would stop offering an optional collection of diverse books at its book fairs, and apologized...
Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: The War Against Books and Libraries
At this week's Frankfurt Book Fair, Publishers Weekly asked Richard Ovenden, director of the Bodleian Libraries of Oxford University and author of Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge (2020)...
