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EL James highest-earning author in world, surprising no one
To the surprise of hopefully very few who have so much as glanced at a bestseller list since spring of 2012, business magazine Forbes’ annually…
Joanna Newsom joins Paul Thomas Anderson’s Pynchon adaptation
In adaptation news I really thought we’d covered already, Paul Thomas Anderson – writer/director of The Master, There Will Be Blood and Boogie Nights and,…
Elmore Leonard recovering from stroke
Word has come through over the past couple of days that Elmore Leonard, the prolific and acclaimed crime author, suffered a stroke over a week…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos buys Washington Post
Get ready to break out the Citizen Kane references – and, by extension, the Mr Burns references – because Jeff Bezos, benevolent (?) overlord of…
2013 PEN Pinter Prize awarded to Tom Stoppard
PEN – the international writers association (Poets, Essayists and Novelists, if you were wondering) – has announced that this year, its prestigious Pinter Prize will…
David Hewson releases new novel exclusively as audiobook
Popular mystery author David Hewson will this week release his latest novel, The Flood. His fans, however, will not be able to read it –…
Chuck Palahniuk working on graphic novel Fight Club sequel
If you purposefully avoided any and all news coming out of San Diego’s Comic-Con this past weekend, well, who could blame you, but amongst the…
Faulkner estate loses fair usage lawsuit you forgot existed
Hey, remember last year when the estate of William Faulkner brought a lawsuit against Sony Pictures Classics for copyright infringement after Woody Allen’s literary 2011…
Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne releasing comic book
Never a man to do things the easy way, whether it’s recording a song that runs a full 24 hours or proceeding to embed five…
Former Royal Military Policeman turns out to be JK Rowling
Proving once and for all that nothing sells a book like a little showmanship and/or discovering that the author is one of the biggest sellers…
Amazon launching comics imprint
In its continuing efforts to leave no income stream untapped, especially if other people are already drinking from it, definite potential comic book supervillain Amazon…
Shortlist announced for this year’s Melita Hume Poetry Prize
Back in February, we reported that the Melita Hume Poetry Prize was open for submissions for its second year of discovering young UK poetry talent.…
Finding Feminism: A Woman In Publishing
or If I Was A Car, I Would Run You Down Four years ago, I would have probably said we don’t need feminism anymore. I…
Arthur C. Clarke’s hair to be launched into space
In slightly more optimistic news of sci-fi death than we’ve been accustomed to of late, a strand of Arthur C. Clarke’s hair is set to…
