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Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money
The following is the second of a six-part collaboration with Dirt about “The Myth of the Middle Class” writer. Check back here throughout the week for more on the increasingly difficult prospect of making a living as a full-time writer, or subscribe to Dirt to get the series in your inbox. _______________________ One of the…
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How Teens Benefit From Being Able To Read ‘Disturbing’ Books That Some Want to Ban
By Gay Ivey, University of North Carolina – Greensboro Should we worry, as massive book-banning efforts imply, that young people will be harmed by certain kinds of books? For over a decade and through hundreds of interviews, my colleague, literacy professor Peter Johnston, and I have studied how adolescents experience reading when they have unfettered access…
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Bookstock Literary Festival Abruptly Folds
click to enlarge courtesy of bookstock Bookstock logo After 15 years of staging annual literary festivals — and just weeks before its 2024 event was to open — Bookstock announced on Monday that it is closing down. The Woodstock festival scheduled for June 21 to 23 is canceled. Cofounder and board chair Peter Rousmaniere told…
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Paris Book Festival serves as a gateway for Chinese culture to go global
Chinese writer Shi Yifeng (left) attends a literary salon at the Paris Book Festival in Paris, France on April 14, 2024. Photo: Courtesy of China National Publications Import and Export (Group) Corporation A series of literary salons and promotional activities were held by Chinese publishers during the 2024 Paris Book Festival from Friday to Sunday in…
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Saving Lone Star Literary Life
Out in West Texas, a pair of aspiring novelists and enterprising small-town newspaper owners, Barbara Brannon and Kay Ellington, were dismayed by the number of publications that were dropping book sections, cutting critics, and otherwise decimating literary coverage, especially in the Lone Star State. By the 2010s, “93 percent of the state’s newspapers offer no…
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Philippine Book Festival returns for ‘big celebration’ of local literature
The Philippines is a paradox. It’s a place where most people seem to respect the written word a great deal; yet it’s also one of the most online countries in the world, with TikTok and IG battling for eyeballs and attention spans every second. So what will make the next generation of Filipinos want to…
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San Antonio Book Festival celebrates 12th year; fun for readers of all ages
SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio Book Festival has wrapped up its 12th successful year. Over 100 authors from across the country came to San Antonio on Saturday to show their most recent and most popular work and connect with readers from across the area. Authors like Hanif Abdurraqib, Lauren Groff, Steve Inskeep, Silvia Moreno-Garcia,…
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Bogotá International Book Fair (FILBo) hosts Brazil as Guest Nation | The City Paper Bogotá
South Korea was Guest Nation at the 34th edition of FILBo. Photo: Richard Emblin Brazil has produced a slate of literary greats, including Jorge Amado (1912-2001), Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), Nélida Piñón (1937-2022), and Paulo Coelho (b.1947), among many others. It is considered one of the largest commercial markets in South America for Spanish and Portuguese-language…
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Preeminent Yiddish literature prize is open for submissions
Photo by Zoltan Bencze / Pexels By Forverts Staff April 12, 2024 Montreal’s Jewish Public Library has announced that the Jacob Isaac Segal Awards for 2024 are now open for submissions. Its Yiddish literature award is among the most prestigious of its kind in North America, and one of the last awards of this kind…
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Latin American authors on rise in International Booker prize lists
A quarter of the books longlisted for this year’s International Booker prize for translated fiction were by South American authors. This proportion was reflected in the shortlist, announced earlier this week, too, with books by Argentinian poet Selva Almada and Brazilian writer Itamar Vieira Junior making the six-strong list. Announcing its longlist last month, the…