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Two for Tuesday: Reviews! What Are They Good For? (Absolutely Nothing?) (Or Absolutely Everything?) (Or Something In Between?) Huh!

Topics discussed: Gene Simmons (again), this column’s terrible name (again), Salman Rushdie, Jonah Berger, Rick Moody, Goodreads, Amazon, Netflix, Barnes & Noble, the New York Review of Books, n+1, The… Read more »

Two for Tuesday

Two for Tuesday: Awesome Show, Great Job — Mark Krotov & Alex Shephard
Two for Tuesday: Let's write a novel about publishing together! — Mark Krotov & Alex Shephard
Two for Tuesday: President Obama should invite Thomas Pynchon to the White House — Mark Krotov & Alex Shephard
Two For Tuesday: What time is it? BEA time! — Mark Krotov & Alex Shephard

Salman Rushdie pans classic novels on Goodreads. Does anyone care?

Kirsten Reach

Today in author news that’s only questionably newsworthy, Salman Rushdie joined Goodreads. This might have made Twitter regardless–the man won a Booker Prize, and people pay attention to his presence… Read more »

Does a medieval medical text hold the cure for MRSA?

Liam O'Brien

When the exploration of the natural sciences become a content-ready package, an interesting and exotic morsel you might hear on Radiolab or see paired with an unsourced photo on Facebook,… Read more »

Coloring books for grown-ups top bestseller list

Nick Davies

Small British publisher Laurence King has had a surprise runaway hit here in the US with an unlikely title. Alison Flood reports for The Guardian that two coloring books created… Read more »

Melville House Books

April 7, 2015