Hot investment tip: Buy old books
Taylor Sperry
There was the Internet bubble, the housing bubble, and now, maybe, the rare book bubble. Amelia Murray reports for The Telegraph that the value of rare, first edition books has… Read more »
There was the Internet bubble, the housing bubble, and now, maybe, the rare book bubble. Amelia Murray reports for The Telegraph that the value of rare, first edition books has… Read more »
Last month, despite apparent reservations, The Orwell Society decided to publish a slim volume of 42 little-known poems written by George Orwell. The poems were written over a 35-year span, from… Read more »
Topics discussed: mozzarella sticks, Nick During, incompetence, silliness, fear, Martin Amis, Facebook comments, George Orwell, the New York Review of Books, Charlie Hebdo, Henry Green, the Nobel Prize, John Banville, Tomas Tranströmer, Karl Ove… Read more »
In 1933, George Orwell’s now canonical memoir Down and Out in Paris and London was published, documenting his vivid recollections of living among the poor and destitute. But suspicions of… Read more »
A Cairo University student was arrested last weekend, and rumors immediately began to circulate that his possession of a copy of 1984 by George Orwell was a big part of… Read more »
Last week, we brought news of a major leap into the future from those brave, bold innovators at Amazon: the creation of New York’s first-ever pop-up shop/storage facility/product takeout space/kitchenware… Read more »
Amazon has had a rough time with George Orwell in the past. Now even pro-Amazon bloggers are misquoting the author. It started in 2009, when the retailer deleted copies of George… Read more »
PEN America recently finished a 62 day Surveillance Metaphor Mapping Project, tracking the language that journalists use most often to describe government surveillance. They looked at 133 articles, by 105… Read more »
Authors from across the world have signed a petition condemning state surveillance like that carried out by the NSA, as revealed by Edward Snowden earlier this year. Their petition, which… Read more »
Writing in The Irrawaddy, Kyaw Phyo Tha reports that the Burmese Ministry of Information named the new translation of Burmese Days the winner of the 2012 National Literary Award’s informative… Read more »