June 13, 2013

In 2005, New York Times reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau published a story detailing how the Bush administration had allowed the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on phone calls… Read more »

Literacy

Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien
Is Bill Gates the new Oprah? (No, of course not.) — Ena Brdjanovic
The scientific theory behind what makes Dr. Seuss funny — Zeljka Marosevic
Uproar over publication of Haruki Murakami's high school library records — Liam O'Brien

Profile Books publisher: majority of self-published books are “unutterable rubbish”

Alex Shephard

Yesterday, we reported that self-published books now make up 20% of the genre ebook market in the UK. That figure was first announced on Tuesday by Steve Bohme, the research… Read more »

Forget the Nobel medal, buy more pomade

Dustin Kurtz

Fans of William Faulkner, Nobel laureate and one of the great voices in the history of American literature proved themselves shockingly sane this week. In a Tuesday auction hyped by… Read more »

Thanks, NSA: Americans are reading again (or maybe they’re just reading 1984)

Abigail Grace Murdy

Nineteen Eighty-Four first came out 64 years ago this week, and thanks to the NSA, George Orwell’s dystopian novel is doing better than ever. Sales on Amazon have risen by more than… Read more »

Danish designer creates comic book for blind readers

Nick Davies

A designer in Copenhagen has come up with a novel way of reaching an audience for comic books that wouldn’t usually be able to enjoy them: the blind. Liz Stinson… Read more »

Melville House Books

Does nobody read USA Today? The surprising furor over NSA spying

Kelly Burdick