No gods, no masters, no bad boy publishers
“Publishing has always depended on having smart people willing to do its down-market work; what’s changed is how those people go about it.” This is the crux of Noreen Malone’s… Read more »
A gallery of burning buildings: 10 first paragraphs about The End in Russian literature
10. Here is how it will end: you will be on a train. You will be walking down a street, in St. Petersburg. You will be riding a red horse.… Read more »
Historic D.C. Public Library to be redeveloped for mixed-use amid some opposition
As the last building designed by Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe and one of the only examples of modern architecture in Washington D.C., the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library was… Read more »
Now I’ve written the whole thing. For Christ’s sake give me a drink.
On Lapham’s Quarterly’s Roundtable blog, Colin Dickey notes that their Means of Communications issue features an amazing collection of “complaints and marginal notes” left by medieval monks, who had to copy manuscripts… Read more »
Beloved Boston bookstore set to reopen its doors
Book-loving travelers of New England suffered an almost catastrophic blow in the spring of 2013 when Chicago-based chain Barbara’s Bookstores was forced to shutter its store in Boston’s South Station… Read more »
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