Bestselling author Don Winslow has announced that the two already-written sequels to his current novel City On Fire will be his last books. Read more
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Trans author ‘burns JK Rowling alive’ in horror novel based on killing ‘radical feminists’
The novel is described on Amazon as “a timely, powerful response to every gender-based apocalypse story that failed to consider the existence of transgender and non-binary people, from a powerful new voice in horror”. Read more
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Myanmar Joins China and Saudi Arabia as World’s Top Jailers of Writers
The literary and free expression group PEN America found that in 2021, at least 277 writers, academics, and public intellectuals in 36 countries—in all geographic regions of the world—were unjustly imprisoned or held in detention in connection with their writing or other exercise of free expression. Read more
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He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One.
With eight forthcoming translations of his books, Vladimir Sorokin is gaining recognition in the West just as, he says, Russian writers need to fight back in a semantic war on truth. Read more
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The novelist who wrote “How to Murder Your Husband” is now on trial for murdering her husband
A few years after Nancy Crampton Brophy—a self-published romance novelist—wrote an essay called “How to Murder Your Husband,” her husband was found shot to death in his classroom at the Oregon Culinary Institute in Portland. While that essay might have been a little bit of a red flag to investigators, the trial judge has deemed it inadmissible as evidence on the grounds it might prove prejudicial (you think?). Read more
Meet the Novelist Who Was Lynched By An Angry Mob and Lived to Tell the Tale
Ned Buntline is the only American novelist who was lynched by an angry mob and lived to tell the tale, although he much preferred telling fictitious tales that made him seem heroic. Read more
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USPS To Release Shel Silverstein Stamp
The U.S. Postal Service will honor author and illustrator Shel Silverstein with a Forever stamp featuring artwork from his book, “The Giving Tree.” The first-day-of-issue event will be held at the school Shel Silverstein attended, Chicago’s Darwin Elementary School. Read more
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Books by Harry Crews are Being Reissued by Penguin Classics
This week, Penguin Classics will reissue Crews’ memoir “A Childhood: A Biography of a Place”(1978) and his debut novel, “The Gospel Singer” (1968). The imprint’s publisher and acquiring editor, Elda Rotor, recalled being “intrigued by his influence as an author and a teacher and curious about the craft of storytelling.” Struck by Crews’ “larger than life” mark on literature, she hopes the reissues will allow a new, wider readership to wrestle with his works and “revisit them through the lens of classics.” Read more
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The road well travelled: 100 years of Jack Kerouac
Nature-loving mystic or proto-dudebro? Untameable free spirit or reclusive mama’s boy? On the centenary of his birth, it is time to look past the icon at the ‘bleeding ball of contradictions’ behind it. Read more
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An Author Wrote About Her Sister’s Murder. It Led to a Breakthrough.
Cristina Rivera Garza wanted to shed light on the life of her sister, killed 30 years ago. Her book, part of a larger call for justice by women in Mexico, helped locate the suspect. Read more
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