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The LA Times Jacket Copy report lets us in on a highly coveted ticket — the Patti Smith / Dave Eggers double-bill at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival. The… Read more »

Earlier this year, the UK-based non-profit organization Media Standards Trust created the website Churnalism as a tool to determine when “journalism” is actually just a cut-and-pasted press release. Here’s how… Read more »

New York rock star and icon of 80s- and 90s-era “alternative music” Suzanne Vega has written a play about Carson McCullers that’s about to go up in New York. “I… Read more »

A recent commentary at Publishing Perspectives, Ed Nawotka brings what should have been (but wasn’t) THE question of the technological age to bear on the question of the moment: “Is… Read more »

The center of William Faulkner’s cosmos The day “science fiction” was invented Russia and Ukraine squabble over fairytale creatures The secret life of libraries Banned book awareness: The Qur’an Let’s… Read more »