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The Detroit Free Press reports that, “A Macomb County family is suing its school district for discrimination over a classroom reading of a racial epithet in a book depicting slavery.”… Read more »

I was pleased and amused to see my hometown of Eureka, California show up in The New York Times this weekend. Amy Stewart, bestselling author of Wicked Plants and co-owner… Read more »

This is the second installment of a series by artist Mahendra Singh on the process of adapting Lewis Carroll’s classic nonsense poem, The Hunting of a Snark, into a graphic presentation. Like… Read more »

Quick! Are you a David Mitchell fan but think he could use use some help with the character names in his novels? Well, here’s your chance to offer a hand.… Read more »

More and more, we find ourselves in awe of the quality, depth and variety of places on the internet talking about books. Thus, we’ve decided to take a year-end look… Read more »

Funny how often the conversation about literary awards nowadays ends up being about not literature but how art meets commerce — or, more precisely, how art-making meets American-style monopoly capitalism.… 10 / Read more »

Just when we thought we had seen every form of publicity possible for Tao Lin’s Richard Yates (a parodic cover story, an 11,810-word interview, a slideshow biography, an emo song), genius… Read more »