June 18, 2013

The “shit storm” continues. Yesterday, The Bookseller reported that two more Granta employees, sales and marketing director Brigid Macleod and sales manager Sharon Murphy, would be leaving the company and… Read more »

Media

Marco Rubio’s An American Son is a memoir, but is it also an ethics violation? — Mark Krotov
Uproar over publication of Haruki Murakami's high school library records — Liam O'Brien
FSG publishing anonymously authored Silicon Valley satire---all 18 pages of it — Ena Brdjanovic
Are financial scammers really turning to Neil Strauss' The Game for guidance? — Liam O'Brien

Stephen King’s print only book available as pirated ebook

Ariel Bogle

When Stephen King announced that his latest novel, Joyland, would be published in a print-only edition with indie publisher Hard Case Crime, the move seemed to demonstrate support for his publisher, some… Read more »

Neil Gaiman signing off social media

Nick Davies

Author Neil Gaiman has been an active force on social media for some time now, with more than a million people reading his blog and following his Twitter account, @neilhimself,… Read more »

11 covers of Japanese children’s textbooks, 1920s

Kirsten Reach

Will Schofield recently shared a whimsical assortment of 1920s covers from Japanese children’s textbooks on his blog, “50 Watts” (formerly “A Journey Round My Skull”). The series was called Complete… Read more »

Poetry should not mean but be: on sharing poems on Tumblr

Emma Aylor

On May 27, Heather Christle posted a poem on her Tumblr. The poem was Christle’s own; called “1998” and picked from the collection The Trees the Trees (Octopus Books, 2011),… Read more »

Melville House Books

Two more staffers leave Granta

Alex Shephard