Chanel Miller. Photo: Mariah Tiffany Emily Doe, the woman whose statement at Brock Turner’s sentencing for assaulting her went viral after being published by BuzzFeed, is writing a memoir. Know My Name will be published under Doe’s real name, Chanel Miller, by Viking. “I jumped out of my chair to acquire it,” Viking editor in chief Andrea Schulz told the New York Times. “It was just obvious to me from the beginning what she had to say and how different it was and how extraordinarily well she was going to say it. She had the brain and the voice

Carmen Maria Machado The Booker Prize shortlist has been announced. The finalists include Salman Rushdie, Lucy Ellmann, Bernardine Evarist, Chigozie Obioma, Elif Shafak, and Maragaret Atwood. Atwood was nominated for The Testament (her forthcoming sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale), which will be published in the US on September 10th. The chairman of the Booker’s judging panel praised Atwood’s book, calling it “a savage and beautiful novel that speaks to us today with unusual conviction and power.” The Verge looks at how coordinated one-star reviews can sabotage a podcast. At the New Yorker’s Page Turner blog, Ceridwen Dovey examines collective

Vice Media is moving away from entertainment and lifestyle content and shifting toward news. The company’s cable channel, Viceland, is cutting jobs. In late 2018, the Wall Street Journal reported that Vice was on track to lose about fifty million dollars that year, and, in January, the organization laid off roughly 10% of staff. The long-awaited sequel to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale will be published on September 10th. At the New York Times, Joumana Khatib runs down everything you should read and watch in preparation. Ryan Lizza has announced on Twitter that he is joining Politico. According to

Salman Rushdie At the New York Times, Parul Sehgal reviews Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, Quichotte, finding that the exuberance and panache of his early work has now become formulaic and mannered: “He is a writer in free fall. What happened?” In The Guardian, war correspondent Sara Firth wonders if anyone is still paying attention to the war in Syria: “When I first started reporting inside Syria at the very beginning of the war I felt humbled at being entrusted with the brave stories of the Syrian men and women paying such a high price in asking for freedom in

Hailee Steinfeld as Emily Dickinson in Apple TV’s Dickinson. As part of their “Redux” series, the Paris Review has lifted the paywall on Don DeLillo’s 1993 “Art of Fiction” interview. More than twenty-five years later, it still seems timely. Talking about about his novel Great Jones Street, a book about fictional 1970s rock star Bucky Wunderlick, DeLillo says, “Those were the days when the enemy was some presence seeping out of the government, and the most paranoid sort of fear was indistinguishable from common sense.” The Guardian looks at recent film adaptations of Little Women and of Emily Dickinson’s

Bernie Sanders in 2015. Photo: Phil Roeder/Flickr. At CJR, Bernie Sanders writes an op-ed outlining his plan for journalism. Sanders targets both Wall Street and Silicon Valley companies like Facebook and Google for “the decimation” of the press. The Vermont senator and presidential hopeful proposes regulations to limit media mergers, requiring media companies to disclose whether there will be layoffs if mergers are approved, promoting new progressive leadership of the FCC, and strictly enforcing antitrust laws against technology companies like Facebook and Google, among other policies. As Sanders puts it, “Our constitution’s First Amendment explicitly protects the free press

Colm Toibin (photo: Brigitte Lacombe) Novelist Colm Toibin has won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. At the New York Times, David Streitfeld reports on how many illegitimate versions of George Orwell’s books for sale on Amazon have revised (if not butchered) the author’s original language. Homage to Catalonia, a memoir of the author’s experience fighting in the Spanish Civil War, has become, in one case, Homepage to Catalonia. Does Amazon care? Not much. The company said in a statement that “‘there is no single source of truth’ for the copyright status of every book in every country.”

Matthew Yglesias Cathleen Schine talks to the New York Times By the Book section about contemporary fiction, why she avoids literary dinner parties, and her new book, The Grammarians. “Many years ago, as a 30-year-old, I attended a dinner party with a number of well-known New York writers,” she said. “I spent an excruciating evening among these very successful, older writers, trying not to spill my wine and wondering if I should pretend I had read ‘The Bonfire of the Vanities’ and tell Tom Wolfe, who was sitting next to me, how much I liked it. I did not,

Bassey Ikpi At Longreads, Naomi Elias talks to Bassey Ikpi about memory, truth, and her new book, I’m Telling the Truth but I’m Lying. “What I tried to do was be very honest about the things I couldn’t remember,” she said of the book. “What was difficult was, the first book that we actually sold was supposed to be this — now that I think about it, I laugh — this self-help book, like a ‘this is how I got here’ kind of thing; and it was just impossible to do. Where am I? I didn’t get anywhere. In

Rachel Monroe. Photo: Emma Rogers The Cut talks to Rachel Monroe about true crime, empathy, and her new book, Savage Appetites. “People talk about being fascinated by true crime because they empathize with the victims. Empathy can be a positive force, but there’s so much bias built into empathy, and I think as white women, if you’re not thinking about what you’re doing, the stories we empathize with are just other stories about white women,” she said. “Empathy can blind us to pain that doesn’t look like our own.” Facebook is hiring a “small team” of journalists to select

Suketu Mehta Suketu Mehta talks to The Guardian about immigration, history, and his new book, This Land Is Our Land. “I am a migrant, but I’m also an American. My taxes financed an illegal and incredibly bloody war that plunged the whole of the Middle East into turmoil. I’m the recipient of an economy that is fouling the atmosphere. So I’m certainly enjoying my privilege here and deeply implicated in all of this,” he said. “Yet I’m always shocked by the lack of historical awareness on the part of the average American. Many of the people who have come

The buzz is building for Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, which is due out in September. Journalist Mark Halperin—author of Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime—has sold his new book, How to Beat Trump: America’s Top Political Strategists on What It Will Take, to Regan Arts. The book, which will come out in November, will draw on extensive interviews with Democratic strategists such as Donna Brazile, James Carville, Jennifer Granholm, and Kathleen Sebelius. Halperin was in the news most recently after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct,

Lyz Lenz The Maris Review talks to Lyz Lenz about christianity, politics, and her new book, God Land. “Christianity has become so twisted up in our concept of nationalism that what we practice has very little to do with actual theology and more to do with ideas of belonging, morality, and moral capital,” she said. “It helps you self-identify in your space, and that has absolutely nothing to do with theology. That has everything to do with the way we practice Americanism and internationalism, and it’s really toxic.” The Guardian has announced the nominees for the 4th Estate Short

Juliet Escoria The Atlantic’s Taylor Lorenz is joining the New York Times Styles section. “Taylor Lorenz beat the Styles desk on three stories in one month. We had some options about how to handle that,” editor Choire Sicha said in a statement. “The easiest and most humane solution was . . . we hired her.” The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the recipients of $29 million in grants. “I do feel like a memoir implies that you learn something. I definitely did learn something by my experiences, but that wasn’t what I was interested in,” Juliet the

Yoko Ogawa. Photo: Tadashi Okochi The New York Times talks to Yoko Ogawa about writing, motherhood, and her recently-translated book, The Memory Police. “Now that my son has grown, I feel like I was at my happiest when I was writing while raising my child,” she said. “Now that I can write as much as I want 24 hours a day, it’s not as if I produce any greater work now than I did in the past.” Netflix has bought the rights to Pyros, a series based on Thomas Pierce’s short story “Tardy Man,” which was published in the

Ta-Nehisi Coates. Photo: Gregory Halpern After analyzing the words of Rush Limbaugh, Tucker Carlson, and others, the New York Times has concluded that “there is a striking degree of overlap between the words of right-wing media personalities and the language used by the Texas man who confessed to killing 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso this month.” Staff of The Ringer have unionized with Writers’ Guild of America East. The Guardian has released the shortlist for their “Not the Booker” prize. Nominees include Ali Smith’s Spring, Lara Williams’s Supepr Club, and Robbie Arnott’s Flames. At Vanity Fair,

After the news of Toni Morrison’s death last week, the New Yorker decided to pay tribute to the author on the cover of its next issue. Under a tight deadline, art director Françoise Mouly reached out to artist Kara Walker created Quiet as It’s Kept, the cover illustration for the magazine’s August 19 issue, in less than twenty-four hours. Nine stories that Marcel Proust wrote in the 1890s but kept secret are going to be published by Éditions de Fallois in France in October. The author presumably kept the stories to himself because they touch on “themes of homosexuality,”

Bryan Washington At The Guardian, Richard Lea talks to Bryan Washington about homophobia, Houston, and his story collection, Lot. “There is no singular experience – there’s no story I could have written that would have encapsulated what it meant or what it could mean to live in the city,” Washington says of his hometown. “And I don’t think there’s any author who’s going to do that, just because there’s such a multiplicity of experiences in this particular city.” Entertainment Weekly has the trailer for the film adaptation of James Frey’s fabricated memoir A Million Little Pieces. Molly Young is

Nicholas Jackson. Photo: Terence Patrick Model, dietitian, and Elon Musk’s mother Maye Musk is publishing a book. According to the press release, A Woman Makes a Plan: Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty, and Success will be “a fount of frank and practical advice on how the choices you make in every decade can pay off in surprising, exciting ways throughout your life.” The book will be published in December by Viking. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is working on a book based on her BBC show. Fleabag: Scriptures will include scripts from both seasons of the show, which will be

Jia Tolentino. Photo: Elena Mudd Atlantic staff writer and former ESPN correspondent Jemele Hill is working on a memoir. “I hope that by sharing some very personal experiences in this memoir—things I’ve never shared publicly before—people will have a better understanding of who I am,” Hill said in a press release. The still-untitled book will be published in 2021 by Henry Holt. Hillary and Chelsea Clinton are writing a book. The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience celebrates “the women who have inspired them throughout their lives” and their “histories that all too often get