An unwritten masterpiece
Ellie Robins
MobyLives recently reported on the new espionage in literature: Amazon and other ebook-sellers harvesting information about our reading habits and passing it to publishers, some of whom use it to… Read more »
MobyLives recently reported on the new espionage in literature: Amazon and other ebook-sellers harvesting information about our reading habits and passing it to publishers, some of whom use it to… Read more »
Ray Bradbury biographer Sam Weller writes on his blog that a new short story, “The Shadows Behind the Trees” (PDF here) is a tribute to his friend and mentor. About… Read more »
The problem with death, Ray Bradbury once said to me, is that “it is so damned permanent.” Bradbury, who died Tuesday at 91, was a legend of sci-fi and a… 2 / Read more »
Fellow book lovers: word is, the party’s over. Last year, Lars Iyer—Blanchot scholar, philosophy lecturer, and author of the self-evisceratingly hilarious novels Spurious and Dogma—asked: what do we do after the end… 1 / Read more »
Conversations With Chen Xitong, a new book of interviews with former Beijing mayor Chen Xitong, provides a starkly different assessment of events surrounding the Tiananmen Square massacre, claiming the Chinese… 3 / Read more »
On September 27th— just, no doubt, as Fifty Shades of Grey begins to pass somewhat more slowly across the counters of US bookstores—another British hamper will arrive, in the form… 1 / Read more »
There are very few recordings of the great short story writer Flannery O’Connor. But here’s one (courtesy of Openculture.com). It was made in April of 1959, from a reading O’Connor gave… 1 / Read more »
Just last December, it was the talk of not just the UK but New York when James Daunt, legendary London indie bookseller and currently head of chain retailer Waterstones, publicly… 2 / Read more »
There was a depressing article in the New York Times over the weekend about the rate at which novelists are expected to churn out books these days: two a year… 1 / Read more »
When the Pulitzer Prize board decided not to present an award for fiction last month, independent bookstores were frustrated at the lack of a winner, which would usually give them… Read more »