Goddamn elitists
Melville House
Anyone remember the hubbub around this time last year when Barack Obama was outed as an elitist? As I recall, he said something about rednecks and Hillary jumped on a… Read more »
Anyone remember the hubbub around this time last year when Barack Obama was outed as an elitist? As I recall, he said something about rednecks and Hillary jumped on a… Read more »
Catherine Hickly of Bloomberg News reports that, “A New York court ordered a book collector to return a 16th-century volume valued at $600,000 to a museum in Stuttgart, more than… Read more »
Smut! Give me smut and nothing but – A dirty novel I can’t shut If it’s uncut, and unsubtle… Despite the wild and lurid territories that have been charted in… 2 / Read more »
Thus does art meet commerce, as reported by Leon Neyfakh in the New York Observer: Joanna Smith Rakoff had just completed revisions of her novel, Brooklyn, which she’d been working… Read more »
This just in: Several big conglomerates seem to be gobbling up major American publishers. Should we be concerned? “It is either the apex or the nadir of a tremendous change… Read more »
John Hope Franklin, “a towering scholar and pioneer of African-American studies who wrote the seminal text on the black experience in the U.S.,” died yesterday of congestive heart failure at… 2 / Read more »