Iran blames Rushdie for public attack; Scotland police investigating a threat to J.K. Rowling
An online poster told Rowling, "don't worry you are next."
Early reports indicate Salman Rushdie attacked in New York
The author, who spent years in the 1980s and ’90s in hiding from an Iranian death sentence, was preparing to give a speech when he was assaulted.
America’s Next Great Author makes lofty promises for what amounts to the ongoing gamification of literature
The notion that a televised competition could produce a "great" writer (always paying careful attention to how the producers define that notoriously slippery word) is questionable at best.
“A form that is especially well suited to obsessive characters”: Elise Levine on the novella, true crime, and her new book, Say This
“I wanted to examine alternatives to framing narratives about sexual exploitation and violent crime,” says the author about her two linked novellas.
Donna Bailey Nurse joins forces with Luminato to celebrate Black women’s writing and the legacy of Toni Morrison
A two-day program on June 17 and 18 celebrates the work of the late American Nobel Prize winner as well as highlighting the importance of Black women's writing.
“Egotism at one remove”: Aldous Huxley on the partisan impulse
“Partisan loyalty is socially disastrous; but for individuals it can be richly rewarding.”
Fonts of wisdom: Linda Leith Publications launches a new digital magazine aimed at publishing the work of new English writing in Quebec
The new online publication is a multimedia endeavour aimed at opening the doors to younger and marginalized writers struggling to get a toehold in the publishing world.
“This was, and is, a kind of genius”: colleagues, publishers, and admirers recall the importance of Marie-Claire Blais, one of the finest writers Canada has ever produced
Timid is not a word anyone would reach for to describe Blais’s fiction, and especially her early work, which remains as shocking and defiant today as when it first appeared.
Adam Pottle on how the CanLit establishment’s preference for literary realism downplays the value of horror writing
Horror doesn’t gel with those who’ve propped up CanLit respectability – that is, chiefly cishet, nondisabled white people, Pottle writes.
“I didn’t realize how difficult it was going to be”: Lisa de Nikolits on a turn to science fiction in her latest novel, The Rage Room
“I think I see life in very, very noir terms,” says the author, who considered quitting after finishing work on her latest novel.