Simon & Schuster’s imprint Gallery Books has announced that it will publish a new biography of David Bowie by Paul Morley, who recently helped Grace Jones with her recent book I’ll Never Write My Memoirs. Morley’s book, The Age of Bowie, is scheduled to appear late this year.

MTV News has been on a hiring spree—earlier in January, the company brought in five former employees of Grantland, the ESPN-owned sports and pop-culture website that closed its doors late last year. Now, in an effort to boost its political coverage, MTV has hired author and Wonkette founder Ana Marie Cox and New York

As if primary season weren’t providing enough drama, that Washington institution Politico, in what has been described as “ French New Wave director and critic Jacques Rivette, who made landmark films such as Paris nous appartient and the Jamesian fantasy Céline and Julie Go Boating, and edited Cahiers du Cinéma in the mid-1960s, has died at the age of 87.

The New Yorker’s Page Turner has a piece about South Korea’s Nobel Prize in Literature deficit and the country’s efforts to do something about it. The piece quotes an English professor there who runs a website about Korean literature and

If the work of Franco Moretti so far represents the limit of your understanding of the statistical analysis of literature, get ready for the denizens of Poland’s Institute of Nuclear Physics, who have been busy discovering fractals and multifractals in most of our major works. Though, perhaps a little churlishly, they note that the “fractality of a literary text will in practice never be as perfect as in the world of mathematics.”

The Washington news director for Bloomberg Politics, Kathy Kiely, has resigned because she feels the company would be severely hampered in any serious attempt to

While Arianna Huffington may no longer be treating Donald Trump’s campaign as more entertainment than politics, Trump himself evidently does view it as a media story. Announcing that he planned to skip Thursday’s Republican debate after a stand-off with Fox News (over the network’s refusal to replace Megyn Kelly as moderator), he said: “Let’s see how much money Fox is going to make on the debate without me.”

Much to everyone’s chagrin, it seems that David Bowie had better things to do than write his memoirs.

Today Library of America launches a new twice-monthly column, The Moviegoer, that

Few things are more pleasing than when the news delivers the kind of twist we expect from a best seller: Congratulations to Planned Parenthood, after a grand jury declined to indict anyone from the organization, choosing instead to bring charges against the members of an anti-abortion group who had attempted to entrap them.

The group that owns The Guardian, whose financial position turns out to be much weaker than it previously appeared, has announced that it will slash its budget by 20 percent in order to stop losing money within the next three years. It will also, apparently, “align editorial

Jeff Feuerzeig’s documentary Author: The Real JT Leroy Story had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, and Amazon quickly acquired the film over the weekend. Laura Albert, the woman who pretended to be Leroy (and fooled a lot of people), attended the premiere, and told the audience that she is (surprise) working on a memoir.

The New York Times has now been publishing online content for twenty years.

Janet Malcolm does not think much of Jonathan Bate’s biography of Ted Hughes. Malcolm—who has written brilliantly about psychoanalysis and about Hughes and his wife, Sylvia

The New Republic’s well-known former literary editor Leon Wieseltier, who apparently “laughed loudly” on the record when asked if he planned to buy back the soon-to-be-abandoned TNR, is instead |http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/leon-wieseltier-teaming-up-with-steve-jobs-widow.html#|going into business| with Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs, on a new literary journal. (New York magazine’s post about this, incidentally, includes a delightful parenthesis about another of Jobs’s media side-projects, OZY Media, “curiously named after the Shelley poem ‘Ozymandias’ — you know,

A campaign called Stop Hate Dump Trump has been launched by a large group of notables, including Angela Davis, Cindy Sherman, and Cornel West, who are criticizing both the Trump campaign and the media responsible for “normalising Trump’s extremism by treating it as entertainment, by giving it inordinate and unequal air time and by refusing to interrogate it or condemn it.”

Win some, lose some: Gawker has found a new investor, but it’s also become the subject of yet another lawsuit.

A stage version of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces, now on in Boston starring Nick Offerman, hopes

Spanish broadcaster Univision has bought a substantial stake in the satirical media company The Onion for something approaching $200 million, which, as Bloomberg’s Brooke Sutherland notes, would put The Onion’s overall value at around $500 million: “To put that in perspective, it's twice what Jeff Bezos paid for the Washington Post in 2013. You read that right.” To Sutherland that’s a sign that print may really be on its last legs after all.

Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan has a point-by-point rebuttal of Jonathan Chait’s “case against Bernie Sanders” in New York magazine, ending with the suggestion

At an event yesterday in Harlem marking Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Chris Rock read from James Baldwin’s famous letter to his nephew. And Viewpoint magazine has reproduced a fascinating letter by C. L. R. James, author of the landmark study of the Haitian Revolution The Black Jacobins, about his 1957 meeting with King, their discussion of tactics in the Montgomery bus boycott, and “the always unsuspected power of the mass movement.”

The finalists for the National Book Critics Circle awards have been announced, including Vivian Gornick and Margo Jefferson in autobiography, Colm Tóibín, Maggie

In “The World’s Longest Out-of-Office Message,” Choire Sicha explains why he’s taking a sabbatical from The Awl. One reason: “I’ve taken on various roles and learned a lot about small businesses. But small businesses do things eccentrically. Independent media definitely does things eccentrically. I’d like to go look at how other people do things, maybe try on new ways of being. Then I’m going to steal all these ideas and use them here. :)” While on leave, Sicha will continue to share (with Alex Balk) the company’s voting rights, so he will “maintain the privilege of weighing in on the big

The poet C. D. Wright—whose books include Cooling Time (2005) and the award-winning One with Others (2010)—died earlier this week. Her book Shallcross is scheduled for publication in April. At the New Yorker, Ben Lerner reflects on Wright’s “peculiar brilliance,” and writes that “she was part of a line of mavericks and contrarians who struggled to keep the language particular in times of ever-encroaching standardization.” And at the Awl, poet Mark Bibbins posts Wright’s “only the crossing counts”: “It’s not how we leave one’s life. How go off / the air. You never know, do you. You think you’re