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Poet Adrienne Rich died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz, California, after a long battle with rheumatoid arthritis. Rich was 82. As a San Francisco Chronicle obituary by Meredith… 1 / Read more »

  In the video below, legendary Iranian writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi discusses the background to his masterpiece, Missing Soluch, and describes why he writes about what he writes about. We post… Read more »

Which countries are most loyal to the printed book? R.R. Bowker’s “Global eBook Monitor” study (as summarized here by the Digital Book World blog, and in the above Bowker chart)… Read more »

Is this the work of anti-environmentalist radicals? A statue of the Dr. Seuss character the Lorax was stolen from the late author’s home in La Jolla, CA over the weekend.… Read more »

Sinead O’Connor, book reviewer Title waves New Lemony Snicket cover revealed Book-inspired art in hospitals Hitchens nominated for the Orwell Prize Publishing in the machine age The value of pretty… Read more »

Mark Twain’s famous quip about the reports of his death being greatly exaggerated can be uttered by the publishing industry with a certain satisfaction this morning, according to an Association of… Read more »

Dum dum dum, just another day in another boring work week, right? WRONG! This week is big, people. Very big. This is the week David Rees, the world’s foremost pencil… Read more »

More than half a million books were published in 2011. In the United States and beyond, the book industry is growing increasingly crowded. The bad news for publishers is fierce… Read more »