PEN America has announced the recipients of some of its biggest annual awards. Among the honorees is Toni Morrison, who will be taking home the prestigious PEN/Saul Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Morrison will receive $25,000 for winning, and she’ll join an impressive list of prior honorees that includes Don DeLillo, Louise Erdrich, Cormac McCarthy, and Philip Roth. Morrison was chosen by a panel of judges that included Erdrich, who was last year’s winner. Book Buttons Embed ISBN: 9781400033416 Toni Morrison is one of America’s greatest novelists. She’s known for her socially conscious historical fiction, which focuses on race, gender, …
Penguin Random House has revealed the cover of The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots, a rediscovered Beatrix Potter book that will be released for the first time later this year. The cover features the art of Quentin Blake, whose distinctive style will be on display throughout the book. Check out the cover below! Book Buttons Embed ISBN: 9780241247594 The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots is new to readers, but it’s actually been around for quite a while. In fact, Beatrix Potter first wrote down the tale more than 100 years ago. She sent details to her publisher back in 1914, but the story was …
Stephen King has enjoyed more than his share of Hollywood adaptations, but nobody has ever touched the series he calls his “magnum opus” – until now. A film adaptation of King’s series The Dark Tower is in the works, and it will star Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Book Buttons Embed ISBN: 9780452284692 King’s Dark Tower series features a unique blend of genres, most notably Western and fantasy. In the story, a lone gunslinger named Roland Deschain journeys towards a Dark Tower while pursuing a mysterious antagonist known only as “the Man in Black.” In the film adaptation, Elba will play Deschain and McConaughey will play the …
Great news, Harry Potter fans: this year’s J.K. Rowling-scripted spin-off film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them won’t be the last Harry Potter movie. In fact, J.K. Rowling has just announced that there will be three Fantastic Beasts movies in all! Rowling announced the big news very unceremoniously: she revealed the plans for the sequels in a Twitter interaction with a fan. It started when a Harry Potter fan expressed excitement about the Harry Potter stage play opening in London this year: OMG – I am so excited about this! I heard it will be a movie, too. #HarryPotterCursedChild https://t.co/yaRVwyBCYZ — Katie …
It’s still early in 2016, but this year is already shaping up to be a very good one for fans of science fiction and fantasy. We’ll get our first Harry Potter story in nearly a decade, a long-lost J.R.R. Tolkien book, and a whole lot more. These are the 2016 book releases that we’re most excited about. The Story of Kullervo by J.R.R. Tolkien Book Buttons Embed ISBN: 9780008131364 Release Date: April 5, 2016 When it comes to fantasy, no author can claim a bigger impact than J.R.R. Tolkien. So you can imagine the excitement that followed when a new story of …
