So you want to write a novel?
Anybody who has ever spent even an hour or two in the slush pile will recognize the aspiring novelist in this feature-length cartoon from David Kazzie: So how do you… 2 / Read more »
Anybody who has ever spent even an hour or two in the slush pile will recognize the aspiring novelist in this feature-length cartoon from David Kazzie: So how do you… 2 / Read more »
I try to make a practice of looking on futureofthebook.com (devoted to the “preservation and persistence of the changing book”–“book”specified as the “codex book”) to be soothed by the orphic… 2 / Read more »
The logotype that identifies all Melville House books, found near the bottom of their spines, is composed of a triangle sitting off center atop a square — a black, geometrically… Read more »
In 1993 I worked as the assistant manager of the Classic Bookshop on the concourse of the World Trade Center. Several weeks after the February 26th bombing, after we had… 6 / Read more »
How much some things have changed since the 1996 publication of Nicholas Negroponte’s bestselling book, Being Digital, can be measured by a snippet from a contemporaneous review by Roy Johnson.… Read more »
Glenn Beck’s latest foray into fiction, The Overton Window: A Thriller, is number 3 on Amazon’s bestseller list. It’s not on the New York Times list yet but as Jennifer… Read more »
The story of an unlikely friendship between a writer and her elderly neighbor set against the evocative backdrop of a remote and beautiful coastal town in Maine, The Country of… 4 / Read more »
Is no news good news? In a story at CNET today, reporter Tom Krazit reminds us that the Google Book settlement remains unsettled with no end in sight. At the… Read more »
“O’s 2010 Summer Reading List†showed up in our email-boxes Friday — that’s from Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine —- promising twenty “Lush historical novels, wise contemporary tales and crowd-pleasing beach… Read more »
Dutch writer Gerbrand Bakker has won the 2010 IMPAC prize for his debut novel, The Twin, published in the United States by fellow independent publisher — and Brooklynite — Archipelago… Read more »