Lena Dunham stopped by the Today show to discuss her new memoir with co-hosts Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones. Dunham’s Famesick, which chronicles her career as creator of ...
Wolf Book Awards have been revealed, the annual literary prizes given to honor “literature that contributes to our understanding of race and ou ...
The Whiting Awards, which come with cash prizes of $50,000 for each winner, were established in 1985. Previous winners include Jorie Graham, David Foster Wallace, Li-Young Lee, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, ...
Author Helen DeWitt had the social media platform X abuzz after posting that she turned down a $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prize. DeWitt, best known for her 2000 novel, The Last Sam ...
Last week, Vice President JD Vance announced that he will publish a book about his conversion to Catholicism. The cover of Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, which Harper plans to release in ...
Kirkus launched its new Indie Awards today, with independent authors invited to submit their work for the prizes created to “celebrate the excellence, breadth, and depth of inde ...
The Canadian author and illustrator Jon Klassen has won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, one of the most prestigious prizes in children’s literature. Klassen is best known fo ...
A new Apple TV series, starring Elle Fanning, ably adapts Rufi Thorpe’s offbeat, Kirkus-starred novel of single motherhood.
Renèe is an Indie nonfiction reviewer for Kirkus and president of Gandolfo Helin & Fountain Literary Management. Previously, she spent five years with the CW Network as a book scout and story analyst ...
More than 100 national advocacy organizations, publishers, booksellers, and other groups, including Kirkus, have signed a statement opposing H.R. 7661, a U.S. House bill that threatens to withhold ...
INDEPENDENT RECOGNITION. About the Kirkus Indie Awards. Anyone can publish a book. Being recognized is what sets exceptional authors apart. Kirkus Indie Awards celebrate the excel ...
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