June 19, 2013

The short answer is no. On Monday, as part of a fiction issue on women writers, Vice published a fashion spread depicting the suicides of well-known authors. Doppelganger models portray Sylvia… Read more »

Authors

Protesting sexism, comic book artists pull out of running for Angoulême Grand Prix — Liam O'Brien
20th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest features fan-designed cover — Kait Howard
Amazon picks up The Last Tycoon adaptation, casts Kelsey Grammer in lead — Liam O'Brien
Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga denies eating his companion — Taylor Sperry

New DRM will change the words of your ebook

Ariel Bogle

A new version of Digital Rights Management will change the words of your ebook, so that the version is unique and any matching pirate copy can be traced back to… Read more »

UK’s Department of Culture spending cut by 8% — but it could have been worse

Zeljka Marosevic

The Culture Secretary, Maria Miller has agreed with the Treasury that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will take an 8% cut in spending. English museums and arts… Read more »

The OED updates “follow,” “stream,” and other computing terms

Kirsten Reach

The first dictionary I bought for school included the definition for information superhighway. The addition of this term merited a special announcement on the dust jacket, which seemed almost comical;… Read more »

Melville House Books

Is there any virtue in Vice’s suicide spread?

Abigail Grace Murdy