Patrick Keefe’s big-pharma exposé of the opioid crisis and the Sackler family’s role in it wins the Baillie Gifford’s £50,000 award.
Is this Holiday Punch Spiked or Was 2010 a Year of Hope?
By Erin L. Cox Looking back on 2010, I see a year of hope and success, enthusiasm and ingenuity, and a renewed vision for book publishing around the world. As a literary agent, this year has been challenging: books that would’ve sold three years ago are being roundly passed on (“I like it, I don’t love it”), the midlist is …
Proof that Brooklyn Rocks the Literary World!
By Erin L. Cox With this week’s release of the authors slated for The Brooklyn Book Festival, it seems clear that Brooklyn is the center of the literary universe. As has been noted in an earlier story from our BEA coverage, Edward Nawotka, Publishing Perspectives‘ Editor in Chief, and I often diverge on the debate of Brooklyn’s literary presence and prowess. …
Shameless BEA Party Invite Request…
By Erin L. Cox When I worked at The New Yorker, our Book Expo party (or better known as “The Spring Books Party”) was the hottest ticket in town. People would sneak in, beg/borrow/steal, use personal connections with New Yorker writers to get invites, or pester me into putting their names on the guest list. Those were heady, fun days being one of …
The New Yorker’s Lillian Ross on the life and death of J.D. Salinger
By Erin L. Cox On Wednesday, reclusive American writer J.D. Salinger died. Author of The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey, Salinger had spent the last 50 years in seclusion. Famed New Yorker writer Lillian Ross had a close personal friendship with Salinger over the years and wrote a powerful piece about the life and death of the …
“Nobody is under the illusion that literature can change the world.”
By Erin L. Cox In this week’s The New Yorker, Claudia Roth Pierpont writes an interesting piece on the contemporary Arabic novel and the movement to increase the English-translation of Arabic works through Abu Dhabi’s Arabic Prize. In the article, Pierpont heralds some of the great Arabic writers — Nobel Prize winning Naguib Mahfouz, Alaa Al Aswany, and Elias Khoury to name …