Are review-bots the only way to avoid conflicts of interest in book reviewing?
In a wonderful review of two books on automation in this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, the writer Barbara Ehrenreich wondered how well robots would be able to handle… Read more »
An attack that “made no sense whatever”: Alexander Cockburn’s fight with a publisher
In the American Prospect, Harold Myerson considers the legacy of Alex Cockburn, who died last Friday at 71, by revisiting his peculiar reaction to the demolition of Pantheon Books in… Read more »
The dark visions of Alberto Vitale
Former Random House CEO Alberto Vitale is back from the dead, expounding on the future of publishing and desperately trying to seem relevant in a long interview posted on Publishing… 2 / Read more »
Yesterday saw the launch of OccupyWriters.com, “an open letter of support by creative writers for Occupy Wall St and the Occupy movement around the world, signed by more than 1,000… Read more »