July 10, 2015

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t review your friends’ books on Amazon

Kirsten Reach

A few weeks ago, author Imy Santiago bought a book, wrote an Amazon review, and found it wouldn’t post to Amazon. Weird, right? An automated note from Amazon, which you… Read more »

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After removing its books from Amazon, children’s publisher reports record profits — Kait Howard
Amazon picks up The Last Tycoon adaptation, casts Kelsey Grammer in lead — Liam O'Brien
Book spotted in San Bernardino shooting suspects' home inspires Amazon review battle — Liam O'Brien
Amazon shows New Jersey a thing or two about traffic — Liam O'Brien

Confusion surrounding Harper Lee’s forthcoming Go Set A Watchman spreads, causing severe bout of historical dissociation in small Alabama town of Monroeville

Simon Reichley

The narrative surrounding the publication of Harper Lee’s upcoming novel Go Set a Watchman has been inconsistent at best. Tonja Carter — Lee’s lawyer and friend — has been cagey;… Read more »

The University of Texas releases 22,000 literary images to the public with Project REVEAL

Claire Kelley

The Harry Ransom Center, the humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas, Austin, has decided to forgo permission requirements and fees in order to release a large… Read more »

Texas to collectively forget about much of Civil War, U.S. history

Jelani Cobb, in his brilliant take in last week’s New Yorker on the post-Charleston backlash against the Confederate flag, put the oblivious narrative used by the flag’s supporters within the… Read more »

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