At the New York Times, Concepción de León reports on the upcoming Bronx Book Festival, organized by Saraciea J. Fennell. A publicist for Tor Books and a Bronx native, Fennell says she was inspired to create the festival after attending a similar event in Brooklyn. “I thought to myself, ‘This is amazing,’” she recalled. “‘Why doesn’t the Bronx have something like this?’” The event will be held this Saturday at Fordham Plaza.

The O. Henry Prize Stories for 2018 have been announced. The selected works will be anthologized in a collection, which will be published this fall by Anchor.

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Queer Eye fashion expert Tan France is writing a memoir, which will be published by St. Martin’s Press next year. The still-untitled book details France’s story of growing up as “one of the few people of color” in small-town Northern England and his “experience of coming out to his family” and “revealing to them that he is happily married to his partner of over 10 years, a self-described gay Mormon cowboy from Salt Lake City.”

Michiko Kakutani has released the cover and publication date of her upcoming book. The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump will be published by Tim

Tom Wolfe, the writer and reporter known for creating New Journalism in the 1960s, died yesterday in Manhattan. He was 87.

New York Times reporter Scott Shane considers the difficulties of reporting on leaks during and after the 2016 election. Shane feels that while many leaks are newsworthy, relying on old methods of reporting aren’t sufficient for covering them. “For the most part, the 2016 stories based on the hacked Democratic emails revealed true and important things. . . . The problem was that Russian hackers chose not to deliver to American voters the same inside material from the Trump

Ronan Farrow, the Pulitzer-winning journalist who has written extensively about sexual misconduct for the New Yorker, has sold a book called Catch and Kill to Little, Brown. According to the publisher, the book is “a deeply personal story about a reporter grappling with how much to put on the line to protect the truth, and a story that expands our understanding of the forces in law, politics, and media that maintained a conspiracy of silence around Weinstein and other men in power committing gross abuses with impunity."

Director Ramin Bahrani, whose adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 begins airing

The politics and news site Talking Points Memo is joining the Writers Guild of America East union. The site’s owner, Josh Marshall, wrote to his staff saying, “We have always strived to espouse and embody a belief in creating a society that is more equitable, just, humane and free. I believe this morning’s decision is consistent with those values and that history. I look forward to working together with the TPM Union to build on what we’ve already created together.” Over the past few years the union has successfully drafted many online media sites, including Vice, the Huffington Post, the

The unrest at the Denver Post continues, with the paper’s journalists staging a protest in front of the New York City building where the hedge fund that owns the paper is located. Alden Capital, which acquired the paper in 2010, has made the newspaper business a profitable one by cutting costs and laying off staff. Last week, the editorial page editor resigned after an article critical of Alden was blocked by ownership. According to the New York Times, one of the protestors, Elizabeth Hernandez, wore a pin that said “I am a certified pest.” She told the Times, “I don’t like being the story.

Richard Lloyd Parry has won the Rathbones Folio Prize for his book Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone. For our winter issue, William T. Vollmann wrote about the book: “A lesser writer might have exploited

The staff at the Denver Post have released a statement heavily criticizing the paper’s ownership, Digital First Media and the hedge fund Alden Capital. The letter was released soon after the editorial page editor, Chuck Plunkett, resigned because an op-ed critical of the owners was blocked by DFM’s chief operating officer. The open letter concludes with a call for the ownership group to make big changes: “It has become vividly clear that they must either invest in the newspaper or sell it to someone who cares about Colorado, and they must do it immediately.” The Daily Beast has more background

The Swedish Academy has announced that there will be no Nobel Prize in Literature this year. The decision comes in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal, in which photographer Jean-Claude Arnault—who is married to one academy member and friends with others—has been accused of abusing and assaulting at least eighteen women. The Complete Review has a comprehensive list of stories and reactions to the news, including a New Yorker piece where Alexandra Schwartz writes, “It seems inevitable that all this chaos will damage the prestige of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Maybe the bigger surprise is

BuzzFeed news reports on the newsroom drama at the New York Times in response to Amy Chozick’s new book, Chasing Hillary, about the paper’s coverage of the 2016 campaign. Times staffers have expressed misgivings that the book contains private comments from colleagues, an inside look at the maneuverings of reporters angling to get front-page stories, and a general theme that journalists are driven by ego and ambition as much as by lofty ideals about truth and accountability. For her part, Choznick says, “I haven’t heard any complaints,” while executive editor Dean Baquet’s comment offers a

The Loudest Voice in the Room author Gabriel Sherman is working on a screenplay about Donald Trump. According to the Hollywood Reporter, The Apprentice will follow Trump’s road to fame and the presidency, “focusing on his early influences like attorney Roy Cohn.” In a statement, Sherman explained that his interest in the film comes from the fifteen years he’s spent reporting on Trump. "I've long been fascinated by his origin story as a young builder coming up in the gritty world of 1970s and '80s New York,” he said. “This formative period tells us so much about the man who today occupies the

Rachel Kushner talks to Entertainment Weekly about art, activism, and her new book, The Mars Room. Although some recent works on the criminal justice system, like Serial and Making a Murderer, have led to activism, Kushner says that wasn’t her aim in setting The Mars Room in a women’s prison. “I don’t think art can be message-y or political,” she said. “Why not just write an op-ed? And I’m not the person to do that.”

The Washington Post's Jason Rezaian is joining CNN as a global affairs analyst. In his tweet announcing the new job, Rezaian, who was arrested and detained in Iran for nearly two