Day in Review
Melville House
Jhumpa Lahiri’s literary apprenticeship Every reader is an author Helen Bernstein Book Award finalists The Motherlode book club (NYT) Kindle will be 10% of Amazon sales by 2012 Gary Shteyngart… Read more »
… needs a new director of library & academic marketing. Librarians! … is it you? Imagine that: A library budget story with a happy ending
Paul Oliver
Facing a $56.7 million deficit in San Diego’s $1.1 billion operating budget, Mayor Jerry Sanders was forced to make some drastic cuts to services in January of this year. Beyond… Read more »
Keller on Judy Miller, NSA
Kelly Burdick
It was a casual exit interview with outgoing New York Times editor Bill Keller, but it’s almost unbelievable that the interviewer, Esquire reporter Scott Raab, posed the question so bluntly.… Read more »
The Bookseller of Chennai
Kelly Burdick
The current issue of the Brooklyn Rail carries Scott Sherman’s charming profile of Giggles, the “tiniest bookshop in Chennai, India’s fourth-largest city,” a store that “until two years ago, was… Read more »
#YASaves? Twitterers defend "depraved" YA novels.
Melville House
There’s been, as to be expected, some strong reactions to Meghan Cox Gurdon’s article in the WSJ which describes the new “lurid…profanity” of YA fiction, and warns that “a careless young… Read more »
Why I love you. What to pack. Lists from the Morgan Library
Melville House
The ever-unexpected Morgan Library has a new exhibit devoted to lists by famous people: ”Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art.”… 2 / Read more »
Day in Review
Melville House
The debate over YA fiction The best hard science fiction books of all time B. Traven: A Mystery Solved Ernest Hemingway wasn’t a crazy cat lady 130 Million eBooks downloaded… Read more »
