Two For Tuesday: Is The Publishing Industry Doomed?
Topics discussed: death, On Kawara, bouncy castles, Mark Wahlberg, Ben Affleck, Slate, disruption, #disruption, e-books, Barnes & Noble, ideology, Matt Yglesias, Uber, martinis, dens, tweed, candelight, Mumford and Sons, Periscope,… Read more »
The Art of the Novella challenge 21: The Alienist
Title: The Alienist Author: Machado de Assis First published: 1881, in the journal A Estação Page count: 86 First line: The chronicles of Itaguai relate that in remote times a… Read more »
The Dictionary of American Regional English is in a dilly of a pickle
We are wample-cropped to hear the Dictionary of American Regional English may be discontinued in June. American dialect executive secretary Allan Metcalf calls this project “greatest American lexicographical project of the latter… Read more »
ALA’s most challenged books list
Yesterday, the American Library Association (ALA) released its annual list of the most frequently challenged and banned books in libraries across the country. Part of the organization’s State of America’s… Read more »
British school teaches wrong textbook for almost the entire year
If you’re like me, which is to say an American, your entire conception of the British primary and secondary education system is probably from books, movies and television. And what… Read more »
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