Rizzoli Bookstore moves out of Midtown, like the rest of the NY book world
Rizzoli Bookstore looks right. It looks left. It explodes south, barreling past hotels and stops just short of the Flatiron Building on Broadway. The bookstore closed in April 2014 with… Read more »
Baldwin’s voice: on editing a collection of interviews with James Baldwin
These late days of July I’ve spent partly in putting together a collection of interviews with James Baldwin, which will be the next installment of Melville House’s Last Interviews series.… Read more »
Three Salinger stories “leaked” online
Three stories by J.D. Salinger, known but unpublished in accordance with the author’s wishes, were uploaded to What.cd last week. Within two hours, the news hit Reddit, and the “locked”… Read more »
On Wanda Coleman, unofficial poet laureate of LA
Wanda Coleman, Los Angeles’s unofficial poet laureate, died on November 22 after a long illness. She was sixty-seven. “She wrote not just about the black experience in Los Angeles but… Read more »