An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

The 1980s was a decade known for the birth of the last of Generation X and big-hair bands. It also produced some of the best ...

A panel of over 1,100 librarians will select the best books of 2024 for the second annual Libby Book Awards The Libby Awards ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

Anne Tyler, Pulitzer Prize winner for "Breathing Lessons," looks at the before and after of a wedding in Baltimore-set "Three ...

Percival Everett's “James” is up for another literary award — the PEN/Faulkner Prize for fiction. Other nominees include Louise Erdrich's “The Mighty Red,” Rachel Kushner's “Creation Lake” and Garth ...

Winners are being announced during the live ceremony on Sunday 2 February at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Only recordings commercially released in the US between September 16, 2023 through ...

Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks is a memoir about grief by a writer at the top of her form, published by Hachette.

Ticket sales will begin Feb. 4 for the chance to hear Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Friedman, the next featured ...

Thanks to a new Bookshop.org app, supporting independent booksellers has never been so easy. Here's how to buy and read ...

The University of Montana will host a lecture on Feb. 6 by Pulitzer-winning poet Jericho Brown in honor of Martin Luther King ...