Mark Twain plaque recovered in “good condition”
The bronze plaque that was stolen from Mark Twain’s grave in late-December of last year has been recovered, according to the Elmira Police Department. A report from the Star Gazette indicates that… Read more »
Are the trailers for Ron Howard’s upcoming epic In The Heart of the Sea missing a hyphen?
Moby-Dick is a book that is very close to this publishing house’s heart, for obvious reasons. It’s also my favorite novel. (Bold choice, I know.) But there’s one thing in the… Read more »
“There are so many memories.” An interview with Sam Weller, Bradbury’s authorized biographer, about the author’s now-demolished home
Over the past several months, Sam Weller has written a series of moving posts on his personal website about Ray Bradbury’s Los Angeles home, which was recently demolished. Weller spent… Read more »
Why was Ray Bradbury’s home demolished? An interview with architect Thom Mayne
When news broke earlier this week that the Los Angeles home where Ray Bradbury lived for fifty years, the dominant reactions were frustration and grief. Responses on Twitter to a… Read more »
Ray Bradbury’s home in Los Angeles is being demolished
Ray Bradbury’s home in the Cheviot Hills neighborhood in Los Angeles, where the science fiction pioneer lived and wrote for 50 years, is being torn down by the developer who… Read more »
“Restructuring” at Penguin
“Restructuring” is one of the corporate world’s greatest euphemisms. It usually means that a lot of people are going to get fired in the name of “greater efficiency” (read: greater… Read more »
I did not rob Mark Twain’s grave
Sometime over the holidays—likely between Christmas and New Years Day—someone removed a bronze plaque featuring Mark Twain’s profile from the author’s gravesite in Elmira, NY. Twain wrote many of his most… Read more »
John Oliver starts illegal nuclear weapons program, develops atomic bomb, tests it on Jeff Bezos
OK, so this is actually a pretty tame joke—I just wanted to make a late entry into the John Oliver Sweepstakes. The joke starts at the 1:25 mark. And if… Read more »
Holiday Staff Picks
People always ask us for holiday recommendations from our list. Tough one! The beauty of working at an indie is that you don’t have to work on books you don’t… Read more »
This week in 1913: Kaiser Wilhelm finds the tango vulgar, Kafka weeps, Duchamp creates an art work that is not an art work
1913 is now available in paperback. Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . . It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt… Read more »