The Guardian’s US website will be edited by Dreamers through this Wednesday. Itzel Guillen, Irving Hernandez, Allyson Durate, and Justino Mora began commissioning essays, commentary, and photography for the project in October, with the hopes of convincing congress to take action on DACA. “These are inspiring, imaginative and resourceful young adults whose lives are currently being disrupted, and potentially destroyed, by politics,” said John Mulholland, acting editor of the Guardian US. “Our project is an attempt to give them a voice and the power to tell their stories.”

Sean Spicer is writing

Simeon Booker, reporter and Washington bureau chief for Jet and Ebony, died last weekend at 99 years old. Booker “was the first black reporter to work full-time at the Washington Post and, as a writer at Jet, was one of the first journalists to cover Emmett Till’s murder.

Jennifer Szalai has been hired as the New York Time’s new nonfiction critic. Szalai is currently an editor at the paper’s Book Review, and will start her new position in January.

Tina Turner has sold an autobiography to Atria Books. Tina Turner: My Love Story will cover “everything from ‘finding love’ to surviving a

The National Book Critics Circle has announced the finalists for the John Leonard Prize, an award given for the best first book.

At the Washington Post, Lisa Kleypas, an author of romance novels, takes issue with Hillary Clinton for her recent comments about the romance-novel industry, in which the politician suggested that men and women learn abusive behaviors from novels about “women being grabbed and thrown on a horse and ridden off into the distance.” “Your comment, especially pulled out of context, doesn’t represent all romance novels,” Kleypas writes. “It’s a misleading cliche about the

In a Twitter thread, A.N. Devers looks at the erasure of former Paris Review editor Brigid Hughes from the history of the magazine. Hughes took over after founder George Plimpton died in 2003, and was let go in 2004. Devers points to New York Times articles about the magazine over the years—including a 2011 profile of Stein that erroneously refers to him as only the second editor after Plimpton—and notes that mentions of her work are regularly removed from the publication’s Wikipedia page. “One of the most amazing things about Brigid Hughes is that she then started her own magazine and continued

Novelist and essayist William H. Gass, author of The Tunnel and many other works, has died.

Kal Penn is publishing an essay collection with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2019. The still-untitled book will include pieces on “his ambition as an actor, the challenges of navigating Hollywood,” and his year-long hiatus from acting while he worked as an associate director in President Obama’s Office of Public Engagement.

Actress Sally Field is working on a memoir. Grand Central will publish In Pieces, which Field has been writing for the last five years, next fall.

Paris Review editor Lorin Stein

Paul Farhi details the numerous reporting mistakes that ABC’s Brian Ross has made over the years. Erik Wemple explains why suspending Ross is the wrong move for the network: “Suspensions help media companies take the air out of social-media backlash against their mistakes, give the chief screwup artist an anguished exile from the newsroom, and otherwise postpone the reckoning and re-org that the organizations must undertake to avoid the next suspension-worthy gaffe.”

Kwame Anthony Appiah will lead the judging panel for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.

Joy Williams has won the Paris Review’s Hadada

The Pulitzer Prizes will no longer limit the Breaking News award to local media. According to a press release by the organization, “breaking news entries will now include coverage related to news events of consequence, whether they are produced by a local, state or national news organization.”

Al Tompkins explores why newsrooms are are more susceptible to sexual harassment than other workplaces.

PBS is replacing Charlie Rose with rebroadcasts of Christiane Amanpour’s eponymous CNN show.

Bill O’Reilly is being sued by one of the women that he settled a sexual harassment claim with. Rachel

Emma Cline’s ex-boyfriend Chaz Reetz-Laiolo has sued the novelist, claiming that Cline plagiarized him in The Girls, her 2015 novel loosely based on the Manson Family. In a countersuit, Cline calls Reetz-Laiolo’s complaint “ludicrous.” Cline’s agent, Bill Clegg, calls the dispute “heartbreaking and enraging.”

Geraldo Rivera is apologizing for what he is calling “tawdry” descriptions of his relationships with women that appear in his 1991 memoir, Exposing Myself. 

Rizzoli books has announced that it’s launching a new imprint.

Oregon Live revisits the early career of the late cult novelist

Porochista Khakpour explains how she and her team at Harper Perennial came up with the cover for her upcoming memoir, Sick. Khakpour says her newest work was also the hardest to chose a cover for: “Do you do some play on Lyme? (At one point a lime green cover was an option to which I yelped, please no!) Hospital paraphernalia? Meds? Doctors?” In the end, she and her team chose one of the many selfies Khakpour had taken while hospitalized, something she had done regularly to keep track of her health and stave off boredom. “I was mixed for a moment about this—it’s a lot to imagine your face at

Wired will switch to a metered paywall early next year. “The simple reason that we’re going to a paywall model is that I think it’s going to make money, and I’d like us to make more money,” editor in chief Nick Thompson explained. “The deeper reason we’re going to a paywall model is because you need to hedge against the future.”

Syfy is developing a TV series based on George R. R. Martin’s 1980 novella, Nightflyers. The network has ordered ten episodes of the series, which may air as early as next summer.

Elena Ferrante’s publishers say that the reclusive novelist has not given up on writing

Amazon’s publishing company is launching a new imprint. Amazon Original Stories will focus on books of both fiction and nonfiction “that can be read in a single sitting” by authors like Joyce Carol Oates, Dodai Stewart, Eddie Huang, W. Kamau Bell, and more.

NPR announced that executive editor Edith Chapin will take over the duties of news editor David Sweeney, who left the company yesterday after three women filed sexual harassment complaints against him.

Margaret Sullivan explores how attacks on the media—like the sting operation by Project Veritas against the Washington Post—could end up

Better Homes and Gardens publisher Meredith Corporation has bought Time Inc. with a “passive financial investment” from the Koch brothers. Politico talks to skeptics of the brothers’ claims that they won’t be involved in the company or use their newly-acquired publications to spread their conservative agenda. “They could influence coverage without lifting a finger, basically,” said Koch biographer Daniel Schulman. “If the staff of these publications are aware that the Kochs are significant financial backers of Time Inc, they may not go out of their way to be critical of the brothers or the