Dave Eggers refuses to accept the Günter Grass award in person due to the recent controversy over Grass’s poem about Israel.
“This was the year we all lost.” Ann Patchett on the missing 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Winston Churchill’s bookstore.
A rejection-letter generator prepares writers for the worst.
Shortlist announced for the Orange Prize.
The Saint Cuthbert Gospel, the oldest known European book, was bought by the British Library for nine million pounds.
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