#News

Book Riot at World Book Night

Yesterday, in celebration of the first annual U.S.-based World Book Night, tens of thousands of volunteer book-givers took to the ...

The 9 Smartest Things Said about the non-Pulitzer

I can’t get enough no-Pulitzer talk and have been reading everything I can find over the last week. Here are ...

Noah’s Ark for Books: Crazy or Brilliant?

Just north of San Francisco, Internet entrepreneur Brewster Kahle is building a so-called Noah’s Ark for Books. Kahle has started ...

Guide to the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is different from other literary awards in a few ways:  Unlike The Pulitzer Prize, there’s definitely going ...

Is this the best bookish Internet video ever?

I mean, isn’t it? (Game: how many literary characters do you count? I lost track at like 14).

New Jonathan Safran Foer Novel Coming in 2014

After two non-novel projects, Tree of Codes and Eating Animals, some of us were getting a little itchy for a ...

Seriously Sweet Boxed Set for 1Q84

Is this awesome? Coming May 15th (via John Gall, h/t Sarah Weinman)

The People’s Pulitzer

As most of you know, the Pulitzer board spit the bit this year and couldn’t pick a fiction winner. Apparently, ...

So Many Books, So Little Recognition: The 2012 non-Pulitzer Award for Fiction

This year, for the first time in over three decades, no Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded, and I’m angry. Why ...

Some Notes on the 2012 non-Pulitzer for Fiction

Today the Pulitzer Prize committee announced the 2012 winners. You can take a look at the list of winners here, ...