William Strunk & E.B. White's The Elements of Style, that indispensable guide for English writers everywhere, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Not everyone is joining the festivities, however; in an essay that will have many former ... Read More »

They're likely dancing in the halls of Random House U.S. today. Yesterday, the Pulitzer Prizes for literature were announced, and Random and its affiliate, Doubleday, swept the fiction, non-fiction, and biography categories. Elizabeth Strout's short ... Read More »

Heaven may be small, but the heart of Emily Schultz's new publisher is large, indeed. House of Anansi Press announced that it has teamed up with Shortcovers, Indigo's new online bookstore, to give away free ... Read More »

Both The Guardian and the BBC spotlight "Bookcrossing," a scheme created by a pair of British book-lovers to hand out free paperbacks to subway riders at a selection of supervised kiosks every month. Instead of the ... Read More »

Quillblog would be remiss if we didn't mark the passing of British science-fiction pioneer J.G. Ballard (though somewhat ironically, his most famous book, Empire of the Sun, wasn't science fiction at all). The L.A. Times ... Read More »

As many of you probably already know, Quill & Quire's esteemed editor-in-chief, Derek Weiler, passed away unexpectedly last Sunday. All of us here at the magazine knew he had had lifelong health problems, but he ... Read More »