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I’m 82. I’m ill. My reaction has been to settle here, in Berlin. Act? I can only do that by writing. And yet when I do, it doesn’t have any… 1 / Read more »

It’s often noted — but seems in another way to be generally disregarded, by Wall Street and media alike — that the terrific sales often touted by Amazon are, well,… Read more »

While noting “Penguin did NOT stop doing business with libraries. They stopped doing business with OverDrive,” librarian Bobbi Newman, at her Librarian By Day blog, nonetheless provides scripts for librarians about… Read more »

Here’s an idea you’ll wish you’d had yourself: framing your favourite literary characters as criminals at large. New Tumblr The Composites runs descriptive passages from works of fiction through police composite… Read more »

“Fashion designer Carlos Campos first read Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera when he was a teenager. And the book stayed with him: The designer, now 39,… Read more »

The English historian Ronald Fraser has died. He was the author of a number of books on Spanish history including In Search of a Past and In Hiding, which Arthur Miller… Read more »

Another famous indie up for sale: Pittsburgh’s Mystery Lovers Bookshop When Dickens fell out with America E.L. Doctorow remembers John Leonard RWA backlash helps its opposite bill, the FRPAA Indie… Read more »