April 21, 2014

When fictional characters sit down to eat, what does it look like? One dedicated graphic designer set out to cook, bake, scrounge, and otherwise recreate fifty fictional meals, and the… Read more »

Publishing

Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien
Fifth employee connected to Hong Kong bookstore goes missing — Liam O'Brien
After removing its books from Amazon, children’s publisher reports record profits — Kait Howard
Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga denies eating his companion — Taylor Sperry

Adventures in Christian publishing: imprints are for apostates

Dustin Kurtz

A new Christian imprint is putting out a book by a gay evangelical, leading some evangelical bloggers to ask: What is an imprint? How do they work? Something something sodomy?… Read more »

Men don’t want to read, would rather wait for the movie

Julia Fleischaker

A recent study commissioned by the organizers of World Book Night seems to support the truism that men don’t read books. The study of 2,000 British men found them making… Read more »

Amazon’s recommendation algorithm making things easy for drug dealers

Recommended based on your recent purchases: plastic baggies, Breaking Bad on DVD, and an 8-ball! That’s an exaggeration of what’s happened on Amazon recently, but it’s not so very far from… Read more »

“The more the better”: On multiple translations

Emma Aylor

Last week, Asymptote published the translator’s note to Jacek Dehnel’s new Polish edition of The Great Gatsby. The note, itself translated by Asymptote Slovakia’s Julia Sherwood, focuses on the translation that until recently had been the… Read more »

Melville House Books

“Nothing but tea”: eating one’s way through literature

Sal Robinson