LIFE&STYLE
Dylan to meet Nobel academy to receive literature diploma
Nobel literature prize laureate Bob Dylan will meet with members of the Swedish Academy during a weekend visit to Stockholm and they will hand over his Nobel diploma and medal, the academy said Wedne...
Mar 30, 2017
LTI Korea digitalizes classical, contemporary Korean literature
Classical and contemporary Korean literature will be available electronically through the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, which has digitalized 33 masterpieces. The project involved digit...
Mar 13, 2017
Barack, Michelle Obama sign bumper book deal
Barack and Michelle Obama have signed a deal to publish their memoirs with New York-based Penguin Random House, in a coveted contract reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars. America‘s first Af...
Mar 1, 2017
Barack, Michelle Obama sign bumper book deal: publisher
New York based publisher Penguin Random House has won the industry's most coveted contract: a two-for-one deal to produce the memoirs of former president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. ...
Playwright who inspired ‘Moonlight’ wins PEN award
The playwright who inspired the Oscar-nominated movie “Moonlight” has won a prize from PEN America, the literary and human rights organization. Tarell Alvin McCraney received an award for best midca...
Feb 23, 2017
Books on conservatism and rural whites up for Lukas Prize
Jane Mayer’s “Dark Money” and Zachary Roth’s “The Great Suppression” are among several works about the modern conservative movement and rural whites that are on the short list for the J. Anthony Luka...
Feb 22, 2017
Diaz, Nguyen contributing to book about age of Trump
Pulitzer Prize winners Junot Diaz, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jane Smiley are among 32 writers contributing to a book of letters responding to the election of President Donald Trump. Vintage Books told T...
Feb 14, 2017
Margaret Atwood says Trump win boosted sales of her dystopian classic
Canada‘s best-known writer Margaret Atwood said it was largely worries about women’s issues after the US election that made her book “The Handmaid’s Tale” the latest dystopian novel to shoot back up ...
Feb 13, 2017
Stephen King and son Owen King to team up at book convention
NEW YORK (AP) -- This year’s BookExpo will feature a popular father-and-son combination: Stephen and Owen King. Convention organizers ReedPop told the Associated Press on Tuesday that the authors w...
Feb 8, 2017
UK newspaper to spotlight Korean poems in regular feature
Korean poems will become a regular feature in the Guardian newspaper this year. The poems -- selected in partnership with Asymptote, a website specializing in translations of literature -- will be f...
Feb 7, 2017
New book details old New Orleans’ hooker directories
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- “Josie came to this city ... to have a good time and she is going to have it while she lasts,” one madam advertised in a 1903 directory of Storyville, then New Orleans’ flourishin...
Feb 5, 2017
Coelho, local authors slam books seizure in east Libya
TRIPOLI (AFP) - Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho joined more than 100 Libyan writers and intellectuals Monday in condemning security forces for seizing books deemed “erotic” or anti-Islamic. Coelho’s...
Jan 25, 2017
Tips on using newspapers to learn English
“English Learning Tips Based on English Newspapers ENIE” by Yang Sung-jin; Surprise Publishing (272 pages, 15,000 won) English newspapers in South Korea have a long history. The Korea Herald, for in...
Jan 23, 2017
Book spurs rising above theological comfort zone
Evangelical Christians and reform-minded Protestants have reason to celebrate the recent publication of “Thinking the Think,” a book that critically engages their cherished beliefs and encourages the...
Jan 20, 2017
Korean novelist evokes horrors of Gwangju massacre
“Human Acts: A Novel” by Han Kang; Hogarth (224 pages, $22) In May of 1980, the South Korean government turned its guns on its own people, murdering hundreds in the city of Gwangju who had been prot...