Janklow & Nesbit has launched the David Bellos Translation Prize, “celebrating outstanding translations of fiction into English and championing global literary voices” 👇 #BookSky

A new three part series about Charles Dickens “has been pitched as a come-up story, with emphasis on Dickens’s flâneur tendencies.”

It is almost impossible to make a living as an author from selling books alone. Less than 1% of authors do it.

‘Soon publishers won’t stand a chance’: literary world in struggle to detect AI-written books

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Join the Literary Arts Fund for a field scan exploring a segment of the U.S. nonprofit literary arts sector. Free and online. April 7, 2026, 2 pm ET. Register here: bit.ly/4t96yxd ASL interpretation and closed captioning will be provided. A recording will also be available on literaryartsfund.org.

"For authors, this is not just a technology, it’s a moral issue. Authors feel their work has been stolen." —Seth Fishman www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

A slate of new book podcasts launched in early 2026, driven, creators say, by a “yearning” for “more analogue living, long-form, in-depth content,” and "curiosity, community and joy.” 👇 #BookSky

“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” —Toni Morrison #LiteraryArts

"I ambled toward Sixth Avenue, passing a stationery store on the south side of the street. The people inside browsed through notebooks, recapturing an analog age. In our different ways, we’re all deciding how we want the story to turn out." —Joshua Rothman www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"This is not a victimless crime – generative AI competes with the people whose work it is trained on, robbing them of their livelihoods." —Ed Newton-Rex www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Poetry can be a source of healing." —Dr. Joshua Bennett @mit.edu @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social www.wabe.org/who-belongs-...

The National Association of Black Bookstores aims to “amplify Black voices, and preserve Black culture by increasing the visibility, sustainability, and impact of Black bookstores and booksellers.”

“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” —Hilton Als lithub.com/the-weight-o...

Literary arts friends, the Pulitzer Prizes are seeking a Manager of Operations. opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/manager...

Writers, beware— "the current swirl of swindles has created 'the worst environment for writing and publishing scams that I’ve ever seen.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/b...

"If you can hear us, Mr. Silverblatt—your rigorous reading will be missed." —Brittany K. Allen @britt-kathryn.bsky.social lithub.com/five-great-e...

"What we’ve seen in the last decade is diminishing coverage for books across the entire country, and it is really devastating for writers." —Cleyvis Natera @poynterinstitute.bsky.social www.poynter.org/business-wor...

"I think (Toni) Morrison wanted to go back to what she described as village literature, which is a notion that literature is a social form, it's a community form... It has to open up questions so that we can talk about it as a community." —Namwali Serpell www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

"Change me, drastically if possible. Transform me. Make me other. That’s what I ask of books—both when I read them and when I write them." —Cristina Rivera Garza lithub.com/cristina-riv...

"We believe that everyone in our country deserves meaningful access to the veracity, beauty, imagination, and continual revelation that the arts and humanities provide." —Elizabeth Alexander, President of @mellon.org, a co-founder of the Literary Arts Fund

Writers George Saunders, Roxane Gay, and Jodi Picoult, among others, have joined the Human Artistry Campaign's "Stealing Isn't Innovation" effort to protest tech companies using copyrighted creative work without permission to build AI language models. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

then let us believe the product of our lives is greater than the sum of us —Elaine Mintzer www.scientificamerican.com/article/poem...

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is releasing her memoir, "The Flower Bearers," after enduring profound personal tragedies.

“Writing, which is a kind of paying attention, can be an act of love, an illumination...” —Larissa Pham @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/writing-towa...

"Words can empower or break a person, a community, a nation. But when we share stories with one another, we are reminded of our shared humanity." —Shugri Salh www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

"We don't survive if we don't figure out how to hear, respect and see each other. And I think that literature has superpowers to do that." —Elizabeth Alexander, poet and President of the @mellon.org Foundation on the new @literaryartsfund.bsky.social www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

"The benefit of reading more than one book at a time is that no matter how different the two books are, they always end up speaking to each other in ways I couldn’t have imagined." —Laura Dave time.com/7344842/read...

"Poetry is alive; it celebrates our human experience with language, voice and reflection." —Laura Tohe, newly appointed Poet Laureate of Arizona news.asu.edu/20260114-uni...

What indy titles are indy bookstore shoppers reading? Launching today: a new and alternative best-sellers book list from the Independent Publishers Caucus and @americanbookseller.bsky.social... www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Today's Feature: Alyse Knorr and Kate Partridge Remember Mel Nichols Read here: poems.com/features/wha...

“I’m interested in writing my way through, around, above, and below my life, as a way to navigate life’s joys, beauties, and sadnesses all at once.” —@victoriachang.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

"It feels like, to me, creativity is...this sort of vast collective consciousness, and I am, you know, a guy with a radio, turning the dial, tuning into it and trying to tune into it day after day." —Benjamin Wood lithub.com/benjamin-woo...

"I hope with every book I write that it heals something in someone." —Tayari Jones @tayari.bsky.social on her new book, "Kin." #LiteraryArts

"If you’re still looking for a New Year’s resolution, 'read more books' could well be good for national morale." —Brittany Allen, @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/in-2025-most...

“A joy that wears down the rock of no." —Cornelius Eady m.youtube.com/watch?v=cjYQ...

"“Poets and artists can speak in a language that is different from the language of politicians. They can say things that politicians can’t say. They are there to capture an essence.” —Elizabeth Alexander www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...

"I love the way an audiobook brings me one step closer to a story, removing the middleman of paper or a screen. I’m not just hovering over the action, I’m in it. Channeling it. Bonus: No trees are harmed in the recording." —Elisabeth Egan www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

"I hold passionately to the importance of long-form nonfiction in helping us understand the world." —Caroline Sanderson, associate editor, The Bookseller @thebookseller.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Tomorrow, December 19 at 11:59 p.m. ET, is the deadline for the Literary Arts Fund’s 2026 general operating grants. U.S.-based literary arts nonprofits that directly support creative writers are invited to review the fund’s eligibility requirements and apply: literaryartsfund.org/grants/

"Kevin engaged the Bay Area poetry scene like Warhol did his Factory – but unlike Warhol, it wasn’t centered around him or his work.” —Evan Kennedy www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

There’s one week left to apply for the Literary Arts Fund’s 2026 general operating grants. U.S.-based literary arts nonprofits directly serving creative writers are invited to review the eligibility requirements and apply by December 19 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Learn more: literaryartsfund.org/grants.

"In American high schools, the age of the book may be fading." —Dana Goldstein www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

"She was a world builder." A beautiful tribute to DéLana R.A. Dameron. May she rest in peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...

"What writing does do for me is allow me to ask the kind of question that matters to me and there is something so joyful and meaningful...in the making of room in your life to sit with what matters to you even if those questions are difficult..." —@meghamaj.bsky.social lithub.com/megha-majumd...

The Atlantic’s editors pick their favorite books of the year—10 titles that distinguish themselves as worth reading and remembering. See the full list: theatln.tc/gaJVrZ7O

The Literary Arts Fund’s 2026 general operating grant application window is open though December 19, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Literary arts nonprofits that directly support creative writers and their artistic work are invited to apply. Learn more: literaryartsfund.org/grants/

Looking for a book to gift or read this upcoming holiday season? Here's a great list from the well-read folks @literaryhub.bsky.social.

If you love a small press, check out these 100 notable small press books from 2025!

Journalism and fiction are both essential to a thriving democracy, George Packer argues. He explores how his experience writing a political novel revealed similarities between imagined worlds and reality: