Thanks, NSA: Americans are reading again (or maybe they’re just reading 1984)
Nineteen Eighty-Four first came out 64 years ago this week, and thanks to the NSA, George Orwell’s dystopian novel is doing better than ever. Sales on Amazon have risen by more than… Read more »
SLIDESHOW: Literary graffiti
The folks over at Buzzfeed are always good for a fun photo set, and on Friday they posted one that will appeal to book nerds and street art enthusiasts alike.… Read more »
“The Fable of the Weasel,” by Alexander Cockburn
The following is Alexander Cockburn’s foreword to John Reed’s Snowball’s Chance, releasing in August as part of Melville House’s The Neversink Library. Snowball’s Chance takes its intriguing departure from Animal… Read more »
“Can someone save criticism from The Atlantic?”
So asks Scott Esposito at Conversational Reading, in reply to a new essay by Sarah Fay — “Could the Internet Save Book Reviews?” — published on the website of The… Read more »
George Orwell and the long fight for readable government documents
“If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy,” George Orwell wrote in his 1946 essay ”Politics and the English Language”—a famous attack on the obscurity and inanity… Read more »
Weird interactions with customers, part two
Emily Cleaver worked at Quinto Bookshop in London for four years, and wrote to us with a link to her website, Small Plays About My Day. In it, she details… Read more »