March 18, 2015

The Art of the Novella challenge 17 & 18: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Jonathan Gibbs

Title: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald First published: 1922 Page count: 84 First line: John T. Unger came from a family that had been… 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

What’s going on in Chinese publishing: a “new Amazon”? 200K new ebooks published globally?

Internet giant Tencent Literature announced on Friday it is partnering with Trajectory, a publishing company based in Boston, to release 200,000 ebooks in North and South America. Trajectory’s titles will… Read more »

The fight to be the next editor of The Guardian

Zeljka Marosevic

The new editor of the Guardian newspaper will be announced on Friday, when a new individual will be placed at the helm of Britain’s leading liberal newspaper. Alan Rusbridger, the… Read more »

Louise Erdrich to receive Library of Congress fiction prize

Nick Davies

Highly acclaimed Ojibwe writer Louise Erdrich has just been announced as the latest recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Alexandra Alter reports for the New York… Read more »

Penn Books, Penn Station’s excellent independent bookstore, needs help

Alex Shephard

Penn Books, a small independent bookstore locating in New York’s iconic Penn Station, is in trouble. Vanishing New York reports that the store’s owner, Craig Newman, posted a call to… Read more »

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