Hua Hsu, writing in The Atlantic, once made the following observation about Tao Lin, author of the Melville House titles Bed, Eeeee Eee Eeee, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Shoplifting from American Apparel,… Read more »

The Canadian newspaper The Province reports that Charles Kembo—a man convicted of murdering his wife, his mistress, his friend, and his step-child in 2010—has self-published on Amazon the 372-page YA novel… 2 / Read more »

It’s a terrible moment for cultural exchange in Britain. A brutal visa system introduced in November 2008 means that artists coming from outside the EU for short-term work face a… Read more »

(Via Quill and Quire) The New York-based Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the Canadian organization Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund have joined forces to pay the legal costs of… Read more »

Downsizing publishers, shrinking markets, fewer reviews, disappearing retailers — the Boston Globe’s Alex Beam takes note, in his newest column, of yet another rapidly developing problem facing authors: Class action… Read more »

A Saturday New York Times report by Adam Liptak points to new transcripts of interviews with “eight Supreme Court justices describ[ing] how they write their opinions, what they look for… Read more »

Last year geneticist Craig Venter made news when, according to Forbes, he “announced that he and a team at his eponymous institute have created a genetic code synthetically and inserted… Read more »

An author who says her agent swiped her book project and turned it into a bestseller — for herself — has apparently won vindication in a lawsuit settlement. A New… Read more »

Fans of The Wire, which is compared to the novels of Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Dickens, were upset though perhaps not surprised to learn that Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, who played the pint-sized killer… Read more »

Remember the case of the author who filed criminal charges against a journal editor who published a bad review of her book? (It’s one of our most shared stories ever.)… 20 / Read more »