In Conversation with Anne Carson
If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it. Kate Kellaway interviews poet Anne Carson for the Guardian, touching on reliability, Oscar Wilde, and…
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Amanda Hildebrand
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Amanda Hildebrand is a painter and writer based in Los Angeles. She Instagrams: @amandahilly.
The Card Game Everyone Will Be Playing This Holiday Season
Electric Literature just launched a fundraising campaign for their new literary card game full of crude humor and punny jokes about favorite classic authors and works. According to its Kickstarter…
New(ish) Tolkien Book Coming in 2017
Beren and Lúthien, a Middle-earth story about forbidden love between an Elven woman and human man, based famously on Tolkien’s own love for his wife, is set to be published…
“A Star That Peers Through Your Window”
German children’s book author Thomas Mac Pfeifer spent over a year interviewing children who had migrated to Germany from war-stricken countries such as Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan with the purpose…
Don’t Buy Mark Haddon’s New Book on Amazon, Says Mark Haddon
Author of bestselling book-turned-play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon recently published a new book, The Pier Falls. The book comes in two editions: just…
Malala Yousafzai Lands Children’s Book Deal
Nobel Peace Prize winner and teenage activist Malala Yousafzai is still fighting nonstop for empowerment and education with her forthcoming project, a picture book meant to encourage children to create…
Kids Read to Their Barbers for More Than a $2 Discount
The Fuller Cut in Ypsilanti, Michigan is offering $2 discounts to kids who read a book to their barber during their haircuts. For NPR, Jennifer Guerra speaks with customers/readers and…
The Book Lady Is Back
Dolly Parton, pop culture’s resident “Book Lady,” has written a children’s book based off of one of her hits, “Coat of Many Colors.” The book is to be released on…
Book Thief Stabs British Collector for The Wind in the Willows
The rare book business turned deadly for a British book dealer, who was stabbed and killed for his first-edition copy of The Wind in the Willows (worth about $64,000) in…
Reading YA Lit as an Act of Resistance
These and many other stories hope to remind us that the freedom to choose our own reading is a form of resistance against the looming threat of a totalitarian state… YA literature…
Home-Turned-Library Brings Japanese Literature to Community
For the Los Angeles Times, Kelly Corrigan spoke with Mitsuko Roberts of Glendale, California about The Okanoue Library, a collection of over 700 works of Japanese literature, film, and other media donated…
American Lit’s Reclusive Editor
Without editor Robert Gottlieb, contemporary classics such as True Grit and Catch-22 might not exist in the forms we know them—but that doesn’t seem to move him. In a rare…