October 14, 2013

Self-styled ‘forward thinkers’ love e-books. They love them. They want to marry them. They want to have grotesque half-digital babies with them and grow old with them and be buried… Read more »

Marketing and Publicity

Fake Penguin publicist catfishes bloggers (to get reviews for her own book) — Julia Fleischaker
FSG publishing anonymously authored Silicon Valley satire---all 18 pages of it — Ena Brdjanovic
Minimalist Tokyo bookstore stocks only one book each week — Kait Howard
When reading can transport you ... because there's a subway chip in the cover — Taylor Sperry

Librarians confess all!

Sal Robinson

The role of librarian comes with a strange moral burden attached — maybe it’s just the effect of hoary old stereotypes, or the fact that the job description demands a certain… Read more »

In a recent piece for Hazlitt, Chris Randle takes the opportunity to “gawk at” John Ashbery’s possessions, even as the poetry of the famously “inscrutable elder” remains obscure. John Ashbery Collects: Poet Among… Read more »

Meg Ryan comes to the small screen as a book editor

Nick Davies

Defying reports from earlier this month that Meg Ryan had more or less retired from show business in order to enjoy a quiet life with her children and boyfriend John… Read more »

Indie press Two Dollar Radio to launch film division

Claire Kelley

Eric Obenauf, publisher of Columbus, Ohio based independent publisher Two Dollar Radio, has recently announced the company’s plans to launch a film division called Two Dollar Radio Moving Pictures. Obenauf,… Read more »

Melville House Books

Ad-driven ebooks are worse—and closer—than you imagine

Dustin Kurtz