The Bookworm is up for top honors in a few categories for The Beijinger Bar & Club Awards – including Best Cafe, Best Networking and, of course, Best Quiz. You can vote for us here and Voting is open until May 9th.

In celebration of China Week, (China is the market focus at the London Book Fair this week), Granta is publishing a short stories, excerpts and podcasts from Chinese writers, including BLF 2011 author A Yi‘s Petty Thief (trans. Alice Xin Liu) about a thief with a secret power and a poem from Wang Yin, Flying [...]

The Orange Prize shortlist was announced today. This is the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman. The finalists are: Esi Edugyan Half Blood Blues Anne Enright The Forgotten Georgina Harding Painter of Silence Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles Cynthia Ozick Foreign Bodies Ann Patchett State of Wonder The winner will [...]

Paul French‘s brilliant Midnight in Peking will be adapted to the small screen. Midnight in Peking follows the murder and investigation of British-citizen Pamela Werner in 1037 in Beijing. Kudos Television of London will be developing the book for television. Let the casting speculation begin!

BLF 2012 author Mara Hvistendahl was named a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction for her book Unnatural Selection. Listen to the podcast of Hvistendahl’s BLF 2012 talk at BLF 2012 here. The 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction was “awarded to “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,” by Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton [...]

On February 14, environmentalist Lester Brown, the founder of the Worldwatch Institue and the Earth Policy Institute, returned to The Bookworm to discuss his latest book World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse. In the book, Brown warns that the world is facing issues of near-overwhelming complexity and unprecedented urgency and outlines his [...]

The Bookworm makes it onto the Financial Time‘s list of favorite foreign language bookshops. They write: Gone are the days when expats in Beijing had to rely on the government-run Foreign Languages Bookstore for its stodgy selection. The city got its first international-calibre mega-emporium last year with the opening of Page One, but many people [...]

Flavorwire has named The Beijing Bookworm one of the twenty most beautiful bookstores in the world. The list’s compilers write: With Amazon slowly taking over the publishing world and bookstores closing left and right, things can sometimes seem a little grim for the brick and mortar booksellers of the world. After all, why would anyone [...]

What, BLF alumnus Leslie T. Chang, asks in the latest issue of The New Yorker, do the most industrious people on earth read when they’re not working? The answer as it turns out: novels about, what else, work. In the piece, the Factory Girls author mines Chinese bestsellers like The Diary of Government Official Hou Weidong, [...]

In October, Yoram Bauman, the world’s first and only Stand-Up Economist, brought his act to the Beijing Bookworm. Check out this report of the event by China Radio International’s Dominic Swire: Yoram Bauman at the Bookworm