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Now it can be told: Bestselling author Gerald Posner stepped down from his position last month as “chief investigative reporter” of The Daily Beast after a Jack Shafer report for… 2 / Read more »

And so, after less than two years in office, Bob Miller exits the stage of big time New York publishing, to the shock of the media that covered him like… Read more »

The road to the Red Carpet is never smooth. But now you can follow along, here, from the comfort of your own home, as filmaker/librarian Kacper Jarecki makes his first… 2 / Read more »

The British Poet Laureate, Carole Ann Duffy, has penned a new poem for her job — “Achilles,” about the Achilles heel injury suffered by soccer star David Beckham. According to… Read more »

For a long time I’ve been wondering how the romantic myth of book publishing has persisted, especially with the “death of publishing” chant persistently penetrating the ever-darkening atmosphere surrounding “old-fashioned”… Read more »