It’s only a couple short months before the release of Harper Lee’s new novel/sequel/draft/novel, Go Set A Watchman. As the literary world continues to chamber their thinkpiece guns, one thing remains… Read more »

Topics discussed: Gene Simmons (again), this column’s terrible name (again), Salman Rushdie, Jonah Berger, Rick Moody, Goodreads, Amazon, Netflix, Barnes & Noble, the New York Review of Books, n+1, The… Read more »

Today in author news that’s only questionably newsworthy, Salman Rushdie joined Goodreads. This might have made Twitter regardless–the man won a Booker Prize, and people pay attention to his presence… Read more »

Charlie Hebdo, the left-leaning French satirical magazine that was massacred early this week, has announced that it will proceed with next week’s issue. Rather than a typical run of 60,000,… Read more »

It’s not just the word of 2013; apparently it’s the joke of 2014. “Selfies” seemed to hit everyone’s feeds on April Fool’s Day. Gmail made a joke about sharable selfies,… Read more »

Zarar Khan reported for the Associated Press this weekend (picked up here by the Boston Globe) that Malala Yousafzai’s memoir, I Am Malala, has been been in private schools across… Read more »

The news today that a dozen books from Carlos Fuentes’s backlist, including The Death of Artemio Cruz and The Old Gringo, will now be available as e-books, and the conclusion… Read more »

Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first and only female Prime Minister, died yesterday at the age of 87. Over the course of her 11 year reign, Thatcher sold every government asset that… Read more »

Turns out research libraries are collecting all kinds of things these days… Read more »

Major bookstores in Beijing have stopped selling books by Japanese authors, including Haruki Murakami’s newest tome 1Q84… Read more »