Happy birthday, Ernest Hemingway!
Here’s a collection of photographs of the iconic writer with the animals he loved.
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“Ernest Hemingway was not only a commanding figure in 20th-century literature, but he was also a pack rat. He saved even his old passports and used bullfight tickets, leaving behind one of the longest paper trails of any author.”
The New York Times previews the Morgan Library’s “Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars.” The exhibition opens today.
This is a novel about a lady.
To celebrate the start of the magazine’s tenth decade, we turned to our artists for ideas. Take a look at all nine covers of our Anniversary Issue.
Congratulations to The New Yorker on its 90th birthday!
The wonderful Tiphanie Yanique (whose debut novel Land of Love and Drowning is out now) presided over our Literary Pictionary event at Lit Crawl on 9/13. Here are some highlights from the event.
Thanks to everyone who came out. You can support Lit Crawl by using discount code LITCRAWL at Out of Print (you’ll get free shipping, and Out of Print will donate 30% of the profits).
Join us on Wednesday for a screening of The Residue Years: the Documentary by Mitchell S. Jackson.
NPR profiles the rappers-turned-publishers of hip-hop lit.
Author Eliot Schrefer tells Wild Things! how the character of a baby sister became a baby monkey in Threatened, a Finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Lit.
Check out Eliot Schrefer’s Tedx talk “Getting Animals into View”
A former National Book Award Finalist, Schrefer’s new book, Threatened, is LONGLISTED for the 2014 National Book Award for Young People’s Lit.
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Lit Hub rounds up a century of Ulysses book covers for Bloomsday.
This week, we were thrilled to announce the Longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. These titles in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature represent some of the best writing of the year. The Finalists will be announced October 8, all in the lead up to the 70th National Book Awards on November 20.
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Barnes and Nobles is gonna start serving food and alcohol.
Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.
But you know what? Props to them. This is exactly what Blockbuster didn’t do. At no point was Blockbuster like “Hey, movie rentals aren’t the lucrative enterprise they once were. Perhaps it’s time we become known for our cheesy garlic bread.”
that’s a fantastic plan, honestly? i would 100% go sit at a bookshop, buy a glass of wine, and pick up the newest biography. 50/50 i’d decide to buy it after a couple chapters, and even if i don’t, that’s still money i spent at B&N!
They could host book clubs with food and drinks where one of the employees shares their experiences with a book of their choice and tries to convince the guests to buy it.
Barnes and noble realizing the only reason people go to brick and mortar stores is for the experience and access to an enjoyable physical space they can socialize in (sure isnt for the price) and capitalizing on that is a stroke of genius and a really refreshing approach to the dilemma of competing with online stores
