• Naomi Alderman, whose book I’m dying to read, has won the Orange Prize for New Fiction. And Zadie Smith was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction.

• Oxford University’s last single-sex college (alma mater to writers Monica Ali and Barbara Pym) voted yesterday to admit male students.

• A.L. Kennedy has announced plans to perform her stand-up show, Feel the Love, at this year’s Festival Fringe. (In Scotland.)

• Readings at a Jamaican literary festival mark the 75th anniversary of Jean Rhys’ After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie, which was based on her relationship with Ford Madox Ford.

• The Hotel Chelsea blog — documenting the work of the writers, artists and musicians who’ve lived, stayed and died at the hotel — recently celebrated its first anniversary.

• Digital publishing (and promotion) changes the rules.

• Michael Orthofer admires Suite Francaise. See also Alice Kaplan’s glowing take.

• Sandy Boylan discusses his new book, which centers on Palestinian Bahsir al-Khairi, who returned to his boyhood home nearly 20 years after his family fled and “began a lifelong friendship with a woman living there.” (Via Moorish Girl.)