Steven Galloway, author and UBC creative writing program chair, suspended following undefined “serious allegations.” (The Globe and Mail) Ta-Nehisi Coates and Adam Johnson among National Book Award winners. (The New York Times) Microsoft commissions sci-fi ... Read More »

It’s a :-< day for language as Oxford names the laugh-cry emoji its word of 2015. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (Melville House) NYPL acquires New York Review of Books archives, including manuscripts from Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag. (The ... Read More »

Sales spike for A.J. Waines' Girl on A Train as readers mistake it for Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train. (The Wall Street Journal) Video game Fallout 4 gives nod to booklovers with rewards for ... Read More »