Prachi Gupta

Author Archive

  • October 21, 2013
    Bestselling novelist Neil Gaiman is in disbelief that a New Mexico school district is seriously considering a permanent ban on his fantasy novel “Neverwhere.” Last...
  • October 19, 2013
    Canadian writer Alice Munro, who is the nation’s first female writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature, will not be able to travel to Sweden for the ceremony because of...
  • October 16, 2013
    Alamogordo High School in New Mexico has “temporarily removed” Neil Gaiman’s novel “Neverwhere” from its courses after the mother of a sophomore...
  • August 19, 2013
    Award-winning novelist Salman Rushdie, who lived under a fatwa for a decade after the publication of “The Satanic Verses” in 1988, says that we live in a culture where...
  • August 9, 2013
  • August 3, 2013
    It seems as if the New York Review of Books is competing with the London Review of Books to be the most male-dominated literary publication this side of the pond. Womenâ??s literary...
  • June 24, 2013
    Prolific best-selling author Stephen King held an AMA on Reddit Thursday evening, revealing, among other things, that his fans should not expect sequels to his works. Although fans...
  • May 22, 2013
    As book blurb whore/not whore Gary Shteyngart will tell you, writing book blurbs is an artform — but it’s also a bit of a farce.
  • May 10, 2013
    Jason Collins made sports history when he came out as gay in April, prompting an outpouring of support from pretty much everyone but Fox News.
  • May 1, 2013
  • March 27, 2013
    Today, Italy’s highest appeal court overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox, the 25-year-old who in 2009 was convicted, along with her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, for...