Travis Alber and Aaron Miller both have undergraduate degrees in English, and Aaron also has a MFA in creative writing from Irvine. One might expect them to have typical literary… Read more »

Type “North Korea” one too many times on Twitter and you might come to the attention of the Department of Homeland Security. James Fallows at The Atlantic writes about two recently released… Read more »

The spirit of Félix Fénéon lives on. Remember Luc Sante’s brilliant 2007 translation of his faits divers? Novels in Three Lines collected the French anarchist and art critic’s beautifully and hilariously condensed… Read more »

Writer Clive Thompson — a regular contributor to Wired and the New York Times Magazine and one of those people generally treated like a guru when it comes to the… 4 / Read more »

Good ran an article Wednesday about a growing trend on Facebook that suggests users are “defriending” people who are not in some way actually linked to their lives. Shocking! The trend,… 1 / Read more »

A new take on the public library seems to be sweeping the nation, in one form or another. Last week Moby posted about Columbia University architecture school grad John Locke’s project of… Read more »

The Atlantic Wire has an interview with Michael Crossan, who last week came to the world’s attention as the creator of a Twitter account purporting to be that of reclusive… Read more »

As publishers of books and a blog, we’re well aware of the necessity of adapting to the social media landscape. While we don’t ask all of our authors to start… 2 / Read more »

On Friday,  NPR “On the Media” host Bob Garfield interviewed Mona Seif, a blogger and one of the protest organizers in Cairo. Seif spoke to Garfield from the middle of Tahrir… 2 / Read more »

Over in Wired’s Danger Room they recently published a humorous piece on the increasing number of US Generals that are using Twitter. There are two common reactions to this concept.… Read more »