Amazon has lost Malcolm Gladwell
Alex Shephard
It’s been almost a month since we first learned that Amazon and Hachette were in the midst of brutal contract negotiations. Neither side has said that much about the dispute—though… Read more »
It’s been almost a month since we first learned that Amazon and Hachette were in the midst of brutal contract negotiations. Neither side has said that much about the dispute—though… Read more »
This year was a year of extremes: 2013 yielded unprecedented sales numbers for George Saunders’s story collection and an unfathomable advance for a 900 page debut by Garth Risk Hallberg.… Read more »
Wednesday night, the Randolph County School Board reversed its ban on Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man, just nine days after they had removed the book from school library shelves. The… Read more »
What is steampunk? Is it important? Does genre have an important role in literary culture? Or is genre troublesome, as Soren Kierkegaard may have unintentionally implied when he wrote that… Read more »
Tomorrow afternoon the author of Aurorarama (and its forthcoming sequel: Luminous Chaos), the learned Jean-Christophe Valtat, will make his way by ”transaerian psychomotive” airship to Boston for a three-day steampunk festival.… Read more »
“I suspect I’m not the only person starting 2012 with a resolution to buy fewer books from Amazon,” writes Laura Miller in her newest column at Salon. She’s not. In… Read more »
The damage was self-inflicted, of course, but it hasn’t been a great week for the National Book Awards. But before the fiasco whereby they forced Lauren Myracle to withdraw from… 2 / Read more »