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Prominent Authors Protest Murders of Journalists in Mexico

More than 500 prominent authors, journalists, artists, and free expression advocates, including Homero Arijdis, Chimamanda Adichie, Sandra Cisneros, and Neil Gaiman,joined an open letter to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto this weekend with a clear message: end...

Words Without Borders Introduces August Issue

Words without Borders, the online magazine for international literature, announces the release of its August issue: “Myth and History: Writing from Indonesia.” The issue covers diverse terrains, from historic battlefields to contemporary streets, the ravages of...

10th Anniversary Brooklyn Book Festival

FALL 2015 NYC CULTURE CALENDARS / ARTS PREVIEWS: 10th ANNUAL BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th *NEW* BKBF CHILDREN'S LIT DAYSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19th WEEK OF "BOOKEND" EVENTS EXTENDING BEYOND BROOKLYN SEPTEMBER 14th through 21st Star Lineup for festival...

Barnes & Noble Completes Spin-Off of Barnes & Noble Education

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), today announced that it has completed the separation of its Retail and College businesses. Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. is now an independent public company and the parent of Barnes & Noble College, trading on the New...

St. Martin’s Launches New Digital Romance Imprint

St. Martin's Press will launch a new digital romance imprint called SMP Swerve. The new fiction imprint has named Anne Marie Tallberg as publishing director. She is St. Martin’s Paperbacks and St. Martin’s Griffin v-p and associate publisher.  The first titles will be...

2016 PEN Literary Awards deadline

The August 15 deadline for submitting to the 2016 PEN Literary Awards is approaching. As the deadline is earlier this year, PEN is reminding publishers and literary agents to submit their authors' 2015 books for PEN's prestigious awards which span the fields of...

Barnes & Noble Sales of Go Set a Watchman Make Company History

Harper Lee’s New Book Posts Largest First Day Sales for Adult Fiction in Company History. Sales of  To Kill a Mockingbird Jump to Number 2 on the Bestseller List Barnes & Noble, the nation’s largest retail bookseller and the leading retailer of content, digital...