20th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest features fan-designed cover
Twenty years after David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest was originally published, the iconic cloud-dappled, block-lettered book cover design has been put to bed. Last August, Wallace’s longtime publisher, Little, Brown, announced… Read more »
Little, Brown to publish memoir of Charlie Hebdo editor finished two days before his murder
It’s been nearly a year since the attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, an attack that left 12 people dead after Islamic extremists opened fire during an editorial meeting at… Read more »
Forthcoming Super Thursday most official Super Thursday ever
Great Britain has given America a lot: hard-to-pronounce place names, elegant SUVs, Armando Iannucci. But we’ve also given back our share. Take the word “super.” Sure, the word comes from… Read more »
Joan Rivers biography coming in 2016
Little, Brown and Company announced last week that it had acquired the rights to a biography of comedian Joan Rivers. Ashley Lee writes for the Hollywood Reporter that the bio… Read more »
Leslie Jamison receives two-book deal from Little, Brown
Leslie Jamison, author of the bestselling The Empathy Exams, has earned “a reported seven figure deal with Little, Brown for two books,” Biographile reported last week. The two books are the… Read more »
They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our slightly larger jpgs!
Maria Popova, whose blog Brain Pickings is a popular aggregator of internet curiosities, spent some time on a horse of Dali-esque height and absurdity yesterday after her request to use… 2 / Read more »