Fake Agatha, real support for trans people, and more in today's book news.
A special edition of a classic writing book, a harder than you think quiz, emergency arts funding. All in today's book news.
Jeff and Rebecca try to determine what the It Book of May 2025 will be.
Gatsby's high school bona fides, Amazon is going to be loud about what is to blame for higher prices, and John Lithgow perhaps doesn't understand what he signed up for. All in today's book news.
Amazon "oops sorry" all over indie bookstore day, a really scary proposed Texas law, and more of the day's book news.
Jeff and Rebecca talk about still being pissed off about the 2012 non-pulitzer, Gaiman seemingly throwing in the image rehab towel, legal challenges and defenses, and more before talking about their recent reading.
Jeff talks to Jane Friedman about the new edition of her book, The Business of Being a Writer. She has been writing about the publishing industry for years (and Jeff has been reading her work for years as well), and this book is a guide for writers who don't just want to write, they want to try to make a living.
Jeff and Rebecca continue to get mileage out of the "Of the Century so Far" framing, this time by ranking the fiction winners of the Pulitzer prize. Tough.
Jeff is joined by one of his favorite writers, Marie-Helene Bertino, and the talk about all five of her books in order, including her new short story collection, Exit Zero.
Jeff talks to Gabe Henry about his new book, Enough is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell. For centuries, a series of thinkers, writers, politicians, and bankers have been advocating to make English easier to spell. It hasn't really worked. But the effort is fascinating.