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The next Hunger Games? Dystopian-fiction fan Emily Ding reviews Hugh Howey’s Wool and chats with the Florida-based author about his journey from self-publishing sensation to Big-Six author, and how it ...
Your Fairytale Fix: In Books, Films, TV, Exhibitions, and on the Stage.
We’ve been revisiting fairytales lately. The Grimm brothers’ annotated bicentennial edition, introduced by A. S. Byatt, was published recently by W. W. Norton, who also published, in 2007, an annotated ...
Save 7 December for the Novel Diner’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-themed Supperclub
If you love literary supperclubs, make sure you make it to this one. There’s sure to be chocolates galore, for those of you with a sweet tooth, though I’m sure ...
New Nobel Laureate Mo Yan’s hometown soon to be the Mo Yan theme park
Nobel Laureate Mo Yan
Here’s hypercapitalism at work in the book industry: following the Chinese author Mo Yan’s win of the Nobel prize for literature, Chinese Communist party officials plan to ...
More prizes for women’s fiction: in UK, Australia and Canada
Earlier in May this year, it seemed the English world’s premier global women’s prize for fiction was under threat. Orange had pulled their sponsorship to focus on film, and in ...
8 Nov, 9pm: Five stories from M. R. James’ 1904 collection, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
It’s no secret we’re a fan of the short ghost story master, M. R. James. Last week, we ran a Litro Lab episode featuring Robert Lloyd Parry who, in ...
Neil Gaiman and Meg Rosoff discuss Phillip Pullman’s new collection of Grimm fairytales
LONDON, Mon, 29 Nov—I’d been eagerly anticipating the Phillip Pullman-Neil Gaiman event on Monday evening, only to see, when I arrived at the Cambridge Theatre’s entrance, an A4 piece of ...
The biggest publisher in the world: House of the Random Penguin?
The emergence of the world’s biggest book publisher was announced today. Sadly, it won’t be called “House of the Random Penguin”, as our Arts Editor Becky Ayre suggested, but ...
Martina Devlin & Jackie Kay at V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize evening
LONDON—Irish author Martina Devlin‘s story “Singing Dumb”, about a young girl from a rural community whose three-year-old brother is involved in a car accident, won the 2012 V.S. Pritchett ...
Novel: San Miguel by T. C. Boyle
San Miguel is the latest literary offering from the prolific Tom Coraghessan Boyle (14 novels and nine short story collections to date), in which the eponymous island of the novel, ...
Lit News Round-up: 13 October 2012
Lena Dunham’s first book deal; a reading by Man Booker prize shortlisted authors; Mo Yan the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel prize for literature; the new Women’s Prize ...
Lit News Round-up: 6 October 2012
Navigate a mirror maze by scent; literary adaptations galore at the 56th London Film Festival; Moby Dick as science fiction; Daniel Radcliffe to star in adaptation of Joe Hill’s 2010 ...
Teenage Writers: Bonafide Wunderkinds?
Just as we are heartened that someone “past their prime” can still start doing great work, so we are understandably impressed when young people—kids, even—show themselves to be early achievers. ...
Lit News Round-up: 28 September 2012
Jeffrey Eugenides weighs in on the gender imbalance debate; the 2012 Man Booker prize chair of judges and bloggers on whether blogging is destroying literary criticism; the Shakespeare’s Globe stage ...
The Verdict So Far on J. K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy
J. K. Rowling’s new, long-awaited first book for adults, The Casual Vacancy, has finally been set free into the world today after a watertight security lockdown enforced upon it by ...
Lit News Round-up: 21 September 2012
Forthcoming projects from the birthday boy, Stephen King; the Moby Dick Big Read project; Juke Box Story, a new London live storytelling night inspired by music; Salman Rushdie’s new memoir ...
Lit News Round-up: 14 September 2012
The 2012 BBC International Short Story Award shortlist; the Literary Death Match on TV; Audible.com’s celebrity-performed audiobooks; the state of book reviews; the new prohibition on “love padlocks” in Rome; ...
Novel: John Saturnall’s Feast by Lawrence Norfolk
Early signs of Lawrence Norfolk’s John Saturnall’s Feast are promising, especially if you a judge a book by its embossed cover—and the intricate illustrations contained within its pages—made more potent ...
Big September 2012: Notable New Releases
Zadie Smith, Michael Chabon, Salman Rushdie, J. K. Rowling, Sebastian Faulks, Terry Pratchett… there’s plenty to look forward to this month.
Book Club Review: The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers
What are Book Club Reviews?
This is a new series of book reviews on Litro. It’s exactly what it says on the tin: book reviews by book clubs in London ...