The greatest TV show ever made about book publishing
It’s nigh-on impossible to find realistic portrayals of any job on television because television is (supposed to be) entertaining and actual jobs are boring. The most common professions depicted on TV—cop, lawyer, scientist, politician, and… Read more »
Pulitzer Prize Board: Respect our authority!
Last week, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced the winners of the 2015 prizes. The fiction award went to Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See—which was hailed in these… Read more »
Publishers scramble for their own “Murakami One-Two”
On Monday, Knopf announced the forthcoming publication of The Strange Library, a new book by Haruki Murakami. The 96-page novel will be released in December, only three and a half… Read more »
It’s a shame that there are only five authors left in America
It’s a sad day for literature here on the American continents. Where once we had a flourishing population of authors, somehow, overnight, we are down to just a handful. Where… Read more »