Almost a year ago to the day, Penguin Random House closed their nearly 500,000 square foot facility in Kirkwood, New York, laying off 286 workers in the process. Coupled with… Read more »

Corporate America has long distinguished itself at humiliating employees in the beginning, middle, and end of their employment. For instance, would you like to pee or drink water? Oh, you fussy thing,… Read more »

Say you run a huge corporation, with $2.7 billion in annual revenue. Say, too, that a major part of your empire is a series of college bookstores—over eight hundred of… Read more »

While everyone knows that the life of a newspaper book editor is usually all free lunches, soft couches made of ARCs, and foot rubs from first time novellists, some days… Read more »

It would be wrong to say that a more-than-is-usual amount of navel-gazing is taking place … Read more »