We are so pleased to have been chosen as a winter partner for the book-reviewing newsletter Book Post! Book Post is a by-subscription book review newsletter that sends bite-sized book reviews, by distinguished and engaging writers, direct to readers’ in-boxes.

Book Post links its book reviews to a different independent bookseller every few months, to encourage readers to shop independent and to spread the news of the nation’s vital book cultures.

In addition to subscriber-only reviews by writers like Joy Williams, John Banville, Caleb Crain, Emily Bernard, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, and Álvaro Enrigue, founder Ann Kjellberg also posts for the public about book making and bookselling in her Notebooks, and invites writers like Jamaica Kincaid, Ian Frazier, Lucy Ellmann, Octavio Solis, and Marina Warner to contribute their reading Diaries.

Ann founded Book Post after working for thirty-five years as a book review editor at the New York Review of Books (NYRB). She wanted to import the NYRB’s founding premise—that books are the most powerful medium we have for engaging with ideas—to a new medium and a new moment, in which folks tend to read fast, social media prioritizes inflammatory messaging, and local outlets for news of books and ideas, like newspapers and booksellers, are under threat. 

 Book Post aspires to revitalize book reviewing in a new form, to grow the audience for reading, to nourish the informed conversation, and to make ideas-based journalism sustainable by paying writers, providing an alternative to click-bait and ad-based revenue models, and advocating for independent bookselling and other ways to nourish writers and writing.

We are looking forward to a season of collaboration and celebration of books! For now, check out this wonderful excerpt from Book Post about Hilary Mantel's body of work.