
Bob Dylan at Massey Hall, Toronto, April 18, 1980 (Photo by Jean-Luc Ourlin, Creative Commons)
- The 2017 National Book Award finalists have been revealed. (HuffPost)
- This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature winner will be announced on Oct. 5. (The Guardian)
- Who’s really in the running for this year’s literary Nobel? (New Republic)
- A look back on Bob Dylan’s year of living like a laureate (sort of). (The New York Times)
- NYT faces backlash after “condescending” roundup of romance titles. (Melville House)
- Exorcist author William Blatty’s former home is on the market, just in time for Halloween. (Los Angeles Times)
- HarperCollins makes unorthodox plan to release a YA novel co-written by two authors under two different imprints. (Publishers Weekly)
- Amazon reveals a second headquarters will be opened in North America within the next few years. (Melville House)
- YA author Rose Christo shows how to get your book contract pulled. (Entertainment Weekly)
- What does Rupi Kaur’s Instapoet fame say about the genre? (The Guardian)
- Margaret Atwood talks Handmaid’s Tale in London. (The Telegraph)
- Owning your “foul matter” as a writer. (The Paris Review)
- A list of titles to help us understand mass shootings. (Los Angeles Times)