Gillian Flynn, the author of the much-celebrated Gone Girl, has announced that her next novel will be based on Hamlet. The book will be put out by Hogarth Shakespeare, “a project to retell the Bard’s plays for contemporary readers by well-known writers.”
The Washingtonian profiles journalist Andrew Sullivan, who has returned to D.C. after an unhappy stint in New York.
According to the Times, BookExpo America, which opened yesterday at Manhattan’s Javits Center, is trying to be seen as “more welcoming and fun,” by featuring “consumer-friendly attractions like the ‘Hunger Games’ quiz.”
At a BookExpo event, Kirkus Reviews revealed that it will be sponsoring three $50,000 book prizes, one each in fiction, nonfiction, and YA.