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Soon to be extinct: one of the more hyperbolic compliments engendered by last century’s technology — “I could listen to her read the phonebook….” The what? The telephone book has… 6 / Read more »
Soon to be extinct: one of the more hyperbolic compliments engendered by last century’s technology — “I could listen to her read the phonebook….” The what? The telephone book has… 6 / Read more »
REPORTER: Do you find your second novel coming slow? MISS LEE: Well, I hope to live to see it published. (From the transcript of press conference published in Rogue magazine… Read more »
On this date in 1828 Noah Webster copyrighted one of the most influential books in American history, some descendant of which most of us consult every day: An American… Read more »
Despite the irrationally exuberant popularity of literary bloodsucking I have never been tempted by the original of the genre, Bram Stoker’s Dracula. But, until now, I didn’t know that Stoker… 2 / Read more »
In a refreshing retreat from neo-con hysteria, the Weekly Standard today called for the censorship of an employee art exhibition at the Library of Congress. Actually, one employee of the… 1 / Read more »
What InAudit.com calls, without irony, the “offline book industry” absorbed the news yesterday that Borders had filed for bankruptcy, the largest such filing in retail bookselling history. In its court… 3 / Read more »
“Why don’t we have a museum that honors the great writing and the great writers in America?” That’s the question posed by Malcolm O’Hagan, a retired president and chief executive… Read more »
Our friend and colleague Carl Bromley, the editorial director of Nation Books, wrote to us yesterday with the news that John Ross had died Monday the 17th. He was 72.… Read more »
I was in Other Music the other night behind a dude of about my age who was buying The Secret Dub Life of the Flying Lizards, a group from my… Read more »
I typed “can you lend” in the Google search box and the very first result in its anticipatory menu is “can you lend books on a kindle.” The answer is… Read more »