Univision was the top bidder in yesterday’s Gawker auction, landing the site for $135 million. The Wall Street Journal reports that founder Nick Denton will no longer be involved with Gawker after the sale goes through. 

Pagan Kennedy—the author of Inventology: How We Dream Up Things that Change the World and the novel The Exes, among other books—has signed a contract to become a regular contributing writer for the New York Times’s Opinion section.

For the twentieth anniversary of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, the author explained that the book “was originally written as a kind of reinvention

Gawker goes on the auction block today, and will sell for at least $90 million (less than half of what owner Nick Denton thinks it’s worth). Possible buyers include Univision, New York magazine, and Vox. Peter Thiel thinks that Gawker is not the last battle in the fight to keep the media out of people’s sex lives. In a New York Times op-ed, he writes about the now-retracted Daily Beast article that outed athletes in Rio, praises Republicans at the RNC for accepting him as a gay man, and promotes the so-called “Gawker Bill,” which would punish third parties for profiting from a sex tape. “As

Tsehai Publishers is launching an imprint in honor of Harriet Tubman, publishing fiction, nonfiction, and academic works focused on African American issues in the US. The imprint, a joint effort with Loyola Marymount University, will publish its first book, Voices From Leimert Park, this fall.

Shannon Paulus writes about the lack of independent fact checking in book publishing, after an excerpt of Luke Dittrich’s Patient H.M. in the New York Times called the accuracy of Dittrich’s book into question: “I’ve long wished that fact-checked material would carry some kind of stamp on it noting if

in a statement that “there are inaccuracies in the details and unfair portrayals but rather than go back and forth with BuzzFeed, we are going to continue our work on making Twitter a safer place.”

After a British woman was stopped by airport police for reading Syria Speaks: Art and Culture From the Frontline, the publisher has ordered a reprint of the book due to rising sales. 

PEN America is resurrecting the PEN/Nabokov Award, focusing on international writers. In their announcement, president Andrew Solomon called the award “a welcome counterbalance to rampant xenophobia and increasingly

Village Voice editor in chief Will Bourne will be leaving the publication. A statement from the paper said that Bourne “stepped down,” but a tweet from the former editor suggested otherwise: “Actually I was fired. If we’re being honest with ourselves/your readers.”

After eleven years, Huffington Post co-founder, president, and editor in chief Arianna Huffington is resigning from her namesake website. Huffington tweeted that though she "thought HuffPo would be

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was in London last weekend for a celebration of Half of a Yellow Sun’s tenth anniversary. BuzzFeed has a

Amid rumors of a coming settlement between Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media, employees are urging their prospective new owners to abide by their previously negotiated union contract. “We look forward to building a constructive relationship of mutual respect with the new owners,” read a statement released by Gawker staff. “This can only happen under the terms of our union contract.”

Former co-founder of The Verge Josh Topolsky continues his attempts to explain just who the readers of his new project, The Outline, will be. “They live in urban areas. They’re really tech-savvy. They fund Kickstarter

The George R. R. Martin–edited series “Wild Cards” is getting a TV adaptation. The show is being developed by Universal Cable Productions, responsible for Mr. Robot and 12 Monkeys. Martin will not be involved due to fealty to HBO’s Game of Thrones and the pressure he’s under to finish Winds of Winter, the final installment in his A Song of Ice and Fire series. Martin writes that assistant editor Melinda Snodgrass and producer Gregory Noveck, who will be working on the TV version, “know and love the Wild Cards universe almost as well as I do.”

At Recode, Edmund Lee writes that NBC’s decision

New York Times public editor Liz Spayd explains the paper’s new Metro section, which will cut back on local news (which is “of no interest to readers in Beijing or London”) and focus more on “stories with larger, more consequential themes.” Using the story of a fire in the Bronx that killed two young children as an example, Spayd and Metro editor Wendell Jamieson argue that “when 90 percent of your audience lives outside New York, it makes sense to skip the small stuff and write stories with the kind of wattage that attracts attention from a farther distance.”

After twenty years with the paper,

A British woman was stopped by airport security after a crew member on her flight home to the UK reported her to police for reading Malu Halasa’s award-winning book Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline. “Ironically, a part of my job is working on anti-radicalisation,” Faizah Shaheen told The Independent, “assessing vulnerable young people with mental health problems

The Forbes list of 2016’s highest-paid writers notes that “the written word isn’t dead—although television and movie adaptations often help drive sales.” James Patterson, whose novel Zoo was adapted into a TV series that’s now in its second season, topped the list. Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney came in second, most likely thanks to the slew of movies made from his books. George R. R. Martin placed twelfth with $9.5 million, but Forbes worries that his slow writing pace and the end of the HBO version of Game of Thrones may keep him off the list next year: “His reign may be near its

Colson Whitehead’s new novel, The Underground Railroad, was released yesterday, one month early, in a surprise move to coincide with the announcement of its inclusion in Oprah’s book club. For now, the book is only available in the Oprah-approved format. This weekend, the Times will feature a 16,000 word excerpt of the book, but only in print.

The Times might be the next news outlet to find itself on the Trump media blacklist. After insinuating as much at a campaign event, the candidate sat down with Sean Hannity to call out the newspaper for being sub-literate: “They don’t know how to write

Poet and writer Kevin Young will be taking over for historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad as the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York. Young is currently a professor and curator of rare books at Emory University, “where he helped spearhead a number of major acquisitions, including archives of Jack Kerouac . . . Flannery O’Connor and Lucille Clifton.”

Yale University Press London has laid off the distinguished art editors Gillian Malpass and Sally Salvesen. The decision received a strong rebuke from the scholarly community, with more than three-hundred professors