September 25, 2013

Sexual roleplay isn’t the only thing banned on Goodreads these days. The company (eaten by Amazon earlier this year) is drawing a firm line on the content of the site’s… 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

Michael Gove: teens should send poems, not sexts

Zeljka Marosevic

What is it about government ministers and sex these days? While last week Russia’s children’s ombudsman suggested that children would learn more from reading Russian literature than from sex ed… Read more »

Amazon workers sue over unpaid security screenings

Alex Shephard

Current and former Amazon warehouse workers in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Washington have filed class-action lawsuits against the online retail giant over lengthy, unpaid security screenings they are forced to undergo… Read more »

Volunteers pitch in to restore the Roethke House

Sal Robinson

This Thursday and Friday, in Saginaw, Michigan, a group of volunteers will be hard at work on Theodore Roethke’s childhood home. There are two properties, at 1805 and 1759 Gratiot… Read more »

Charles Bukowski, pitchman

Julia Fleischaker

Sixteen years after Fred Astaire dueted with a Dirt Devil, and ten years after Jack Kerouac sold khakis for the GAP, it seems advertisers have finally perfected the art of… Read more »

New literary festival kicks off in Paris

Nick Davies

This weekend, bookish Americans flocked to the National Book Festival in Washington, DC, and to the Brooklyn Book Festival. Never content to be outdone, the French launched their own book festival this past weekend… Read more »

Melville House Books

Goodreads will delete content “focused on author behavior”

Kirsten Reach