Douglas Stuart, one of four debut novelists shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, has won the award for Shuggie Bain, which was rejected by thirty editors before finding a publisher. Stuart thanked his mother—“I’ve been clear without her I wouldn’t be here, my work wouldn’t be here”—and “joked that his winnings would be spent on settling his bet with his husband that he wouldn’t win.”

For The Nation, Audrey Wollen discusses “afterwardness” and collective, political memory in Annie Ernaux’s memoirs: “Ernaux has done repeatedly what many believe to be impossible in memoir writing: articulate

Former staff of Poets House have responded to the center’s closure and layoffs earlier this week, “out of concern not just for ourselves, but for the integrity of Poets House and its mission.”

The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, which supports work on short- and long-form projects, has announced this year’s twenty-two grantees. Recipients include, among others, Jeannine Tang, Ratik Asokan, and Lauren O’Neill-Butler.

Novelist Akwaeke Emezi has spoken out against Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s support of J. K. Rowling’s anti-trans essay, and shared their own experiences with Adichie: “

Reader-supported press organization Shadowproof has announced the launch of its Marvel Cooke Fellowship, which will support writers of color covering the movement toward prison abolition.

Here are the odds for the six novels up for this year’s Booker Prize, as aggregated by NicerOdds. The winner will be announced Thursday at 2 PM EST.

At Vulture, Sarah Jones wonders who the Netflix adaptation of J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy is for. Reviewing the book when it came out, Jones called Vance’s volume “poverty porn wrapped in a right-wing message”; in Jones’s estimation, the movie may be even

In Columbia Journalism Review’s winter issue, Clio Chang profiles Substack, the newsletter platform that has “begun to look like it’s reverse engineering a media company.” The most successful writers on Substack like Matt Taibbi, Andrew Sullivan, and now Glenn Greenwald tend to be white, male, and already “well-served” by careers in existing media. “In general,” Chang asks, “will Substack replicate the patterns of marginalization found across the media industry, or will it help people locked out of the dominant media sphere to flourish? To a large extent, the answer depends on whether or not

In June, Knopf will publish Wayward, the new novel by Dana Spiotta, author of Eat the Document and Innocents and Others. According to the publisher, Wayward is “about aging, about the female body, and about female difficulty—female complexity—in the age of Trump. Probing and provocative, brainy and sensual, it is a testament to our weird, off-kilter America, to reforms and resistance and utopian wishes, and to the beauty of ruins. Tremendous new work from one of the most gifted writers of her generation.”

Americanah author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks with The Guardian about Trump (“If you

Alex Shephard looks at the question of whether book publishers should put out the inevitable Trump memoir. Though it would likely be lucrative, the potential consequences could dissuade the big five publishing houses from touching the book. As Shephard writes: “Increased labor activism and demands that publishers live up to their stated values have been two of the biggest stories in publishing during the Trump era—a larger publisher putting out a Trump memoir would lead to a surge in both.”

Maggie Haberman has secured a deal with Penguin Press to write “a definitive and fascinating account of

At the New York Review of Books, David Treuer looks at a recent history of the Lakota people. Pekka Hämäläinen’s Lakota America “emphasizes that to understand American history it is vital to understand Lakota—and, by extension, Native American—history; that rather than existing in a state of constant first contact marked by incomprehension and surprise, Native nations and the American nation knew each other, grew up and around and through each other; that contact between the Lakota and European powers wasn’t one-sided and didn’t necessarily spell doom for Indians.”

PEN America has announced

Goodreads has announced their 2020 Choice Awards.

Timothy D. Snyder, author of On Tyranny, has written a twenty-tweet thread on the post-election situation: “The mechanism to undo democracy is usually a fake emergency, a claim that internal enemies have done something outrageous.”

The Los Angeles Times and Tribune Publishing have settled a class-action lawsuit, agreeing to pay three million dollars to address allegations of pay disparities between persons of color and white employees.

The first pick for the online book club hosted by T: The New York Times Style Magazine is James Baldwin’s

The White Review is inviting proposals for a new two-year, part-time editorship.

At New York’s Intelligencer, Reeves Wiedeman reports on the “ideological turf war” at the New York Times, talking with staff about how the paper has handled recent reckonings over diversity, institutional objectivity, the 1619 Project, and the Tom Cotton op-ed. “Change does not come swiftly to the Times,” Wiedeman writes, noting that the Trump presidency “has been a unifying force for the institutionalists and insurrectionists” at the paper. Wiedeman wonders how the paper will confront these issues, which have

CNN, The Guardian, and WorldCrunch look at front-page newspaper coverage of Joe Biden’s presidential victory.

Random House has released the cover image for poet and critic Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, which will be published in March. The photo, shot by Gjon Mili in 1943, shows Willa Mae Ricker and Leon James, “ecstatic during the Lindy Hop.”

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who has “long been seen as one of the biggest proponents in the White House of minimizing the threat” of COVID, tested positive for the virus last week.

Facebook has an internal metric, “violence and incitement trends,” which has seen a 45 percent rise in recent days. The metric has apparently not been previously reported on. Nina Jankowicz, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, said that she was heartened that Facebook monitors these trends. Still, Jankowicz stressed that it was not nearly enough: “We’re talking about the broader structure of Facebook that incentivizes these communities to organize and foster offline violence. . . . I’m not sure they have a handle on it at all. It’s a structure that they’re relying

CNN’s election night coverage used a graphic that referred to voters who are not Latino, Black, Asian, or white as “something else.” The Native American Journalists Association has responded that the network’s language “continues the efforts to erase Indigenous and other voters” and note that “being Native American is a political classification—not merely a racial background.” NAJA is demanding a public apology from CNN and proposes a meeting with senior editorial staff “to discuss how to improve the network’s coverage of Indian Country.”

The New York Times’s Miami bureau chief, Patricia