February 27, 2014

Matthew Zadrozny is a hero to thousands. And not only because he looks good wearing a oilskin duster coat and eating chicken from a camping saucepan in front of the… Read more »

Libraries & librarians

University of Iowa president makes badly-timed joke, librarian calls him out — Chad Felix
Tolstoy’s great-great-granddaughter organizes four-day marathon reading of War and Peace — Ena Brdjanovic
French Booksellers Association releases reading list meant to shed light on Paris attacks — Kait Howard
Uproar over publication of Haruki Murakami's high school library records — Liam O'Brien

Librarian Q&A: San Diego Public Library

Claire Kelley

Last week we posted a short interview with Jennifer Lawson and Jenny Hanson from the San Diego County Library. The next visit on my trip up the West Coast was with Robyn… Read more »

The National Enquirer inadvertently funds Philip Seymour Hoffman literary prize

Martin Rouse

Batten down the hatches and hide your kids, hide your wife, because the end of the world as we know it is here: The National Enquirer is funding a literary… Read more »

How do authors respond when they become the victims of stalking?

Amy Conchie

As an author, you want to cultivate obsessive fans—fans who will buy each of your books in hardcover and patiently wait for hours to have you sign them without then… Read more »

Big Bang kicks off a new universe for fanfiction authors

Fanfiction and other works may be one of the last bastions of nerdery still vehemently rejected by mainstream culture—outsiders often view the community as being fundamentally unoriginal. Even in an atmosphere… Read more »

Melville House Books

On the Central Library Plan, Humans of New York interviewee Matthew Zadrozny kills it

Sal Robinson