November 20, 2013

The subject of British publishing salaries is in the air as bookcareers.com, “an independent careers consultancy specialising in the book industry”, launches a new survey of salaries across the publishing… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Protesting sexism, comic book artists pull out of running for Angoulême Grand Prix — Liam O'Brien
Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien
Fifth employee connected to Hong Kong bookstore goes missing — Liam O'Brien
20th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest features fan-designed cover — Kait Howard

The Smithsonian wants you… to print a gunboat

Sal Robinson

If you’ve long harbored a desire to print out a Revolutionary War gunboat on your local 3-D printer, your day has come. Starting this Wednesday, the Smithsonian is making many… Read more »

The Oxford English Dictionaries word of the year is terrible

Nick Davies

Drumroll, please! It’s time for the big announcement of which word the Oxford English Dictionaries has selected as its official word of the year. Which word, more than any other,… Read more »

Doris Lessing 1922 – 2013

Amy Conchie

Doris Lessing died on Sunday. She was the author of numerous novels, short story collections, plays, librettos and memoirs, and her work spanned multiple genres and modes of inquiry as… Read more »

BREAKING NEWS: Tina Brown still reads

Kirsten Reach

As we mentioned before, Tina Brown had some quips about her reading habits from a talk at THiNK 2013 — a conference run by India’s leading news magazine, Tehelka — … Read more »

Melville House Books

The “big issue” of publishing salaries: survey finds entry-level jobs are the worst

Zeljka Marosevic