Dead man writing . . .
Dennis Johnson
A new novel by Ernest Hemingway — or at least, an unabridged version of a book that was previously published in 1998 as a “fiction memoir” — will be published by Kent… Read more »
A new novel by Ernest Hemingway — or at least, an unabridged version of a book that was previously published in 1998 as a “fiction memoir” — will be published by Kent… Read more »
Embattled author Ward Churchill continues to be savaged relentlessly by the far right, especially from the empire of Rupert Murdoch, where Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity have kept a steady and vicious attack underway… Read more »
One of the major “middlemen” in the American book industry, the giant wholesaler Ingram Book Group, “has formed a company to handle distribution services for publishers and has signed four such… Read more »
America’s second-largest chain bookseller, the Borders Group Inc., “is launching a major initiative this month, introducing a new stationery and gift store called Paperchase inside of Borders Books and Music superstores and… Read more »
Most of the biggest publisher in England have joined in a one-year-old project “to define new ways of working together” with the country’s libraries. According to a Publishing News report, Macmillan and… Read more »
In Great Britain, a government study of five-year-olds has found that the children of wealthy parents have more advanced reading skills than other children, and ” the gap occurs irrespective… Read more »
An appearance by Essie Mae Washington Williams, the daughter of the late, racist U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond and “the Thurmond family’s black maid,” drew hundreds of people to a bookstore in Columbia,… Read more »
The Guardian notes that its “three years on” since Jessa Crispin started Bookslut.com and now “she is a minor celebrity,” so they asked her provide a diary of a week in the… Read more »
“If you ask the White House what President Bush is reading these days,” says Elisabeth Bumiller, “the press office will call back with the official list: ‘His Excellency: George Washington’ by Joseph J.… Read more »