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After a request from Matt Supko, the Director of IndieCommerce, the e-commerce platform of the American Booksellers Association (ABA), Publishers Weekly has changed the headline and text of its story that… 8 / Read more »

Should your best friends also be cruel? At The Guardian, Lars Iyer (Spurious, Dogma) praises the frenemy in literature and in life: “‘In your friend you should possess your best enemy’, Nietzsche… Read more »

Among the many abstractions abandoned by modernity and rarely confronted in cosmopolitan, “First World” settings like the one I’m self-congratulatingly writing from, if you will allow that unfashionable designation (especially… Read more »

“A member of the Occupy Wall Street movement filed a claim on behalf of the group Thursday that the city had damaged or destroyed $47,000 worth of books and other… 1 / Read more »

Ever more options for the self-publisher: the new service GetBookCover allows self-published authors to buy an image, add their title and captions using an in-browser editor, and generate and download… 3 / Read more »

Courtesy of San Francisco’s KQED: Leigh Stein reads a passage from her debut novel, The Fallback Plan, about what happens when you graduate college without a job or a fallback… Read more »

The Rise, the Fall, and the Attempted Rise of Stefan Zweig We have Shirley Temple to thank for one of Graham Greene’s best books James Joyce children’s story discovered Greg… Read more »