Kate Mosse announced that Orange will no longer be sponsoring the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction, given annually to the best work of English-language fiction written by a woman.
Orange to withdraw sponsorship of woman’s fiction prize
“Albertine says she does not know.”
Recommended Reading: Anne Carson’s poem, “The Albertine Workout,” as it appears in the latest edition of the London Review of Books. The work is actually excerpted from her forthcoming New Directions pamphlet of the same name.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Jin; Saizarbitoria; Jackson; Carson; Conroy; Boyle
Out this week: The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin; Martutene by Ramón Saizarbitoria; Black Elk by Joe Jackson; Float by Anne Carson; A Lowcountry Heart by Pat Conroy; and The Terranauts by T.C. Boyle. For more on these and other new titles, go read our Great Second-Half 2016 Book Preview.
Football Book Club: ‘The Case Against Satan’
It's a brand new week and Football Book Club is reading Ray Russell's The Case Against Satan. For those of you scoring at home, that's an exorcism novel written by a former executive editor of Playboy. Plus posts about Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction and Carmen Giménez Smith’s Milk and Filth.
Tuesday New Release Day
New this holiday week is former indie rocker Matthew Gallaway's The Metropolis Case, an opera infused debut, written up favorably and excerpted at The Times.
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Hollywood and the Brontes
USA Today suggests that Hollywood's love affair with Jane Austen is ebbing and, with film versions of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights on the way, the bigwigs have moved on to the Brontes.
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Electric Lit interviews Patricia Lockwood
Electric Literature has a fantastic interview with "viral poet" Patricia Lockwood, author of "Rape Joke," new book Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, and this prophecy: "We’re going to have something in the future that is so much more revealing than tit pics, and we don’t even know what it is yet." Pair with: today's new Millions piece on publishers' struggle to turn the love of poetry into poetry sales.
Animals!
Today in things you might like to read about animals: Some birds, apparently, not only mourn their dead but even hold funeral services. And while it's widely known that the internet is made of cats, Wired dug a little deeper and tried to uncover the root of our collective feline fixation.
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Lispector Inspector
The new issue of The New York Review of Books is out. A highlight, as usual, is Michael Wood, who does a better job than we did with Inherent Vice. But those of us on this side of the pay wall will have to make do with Lorrie Moore's intriguing essay on Clarice Lispector.