“There are all these interesting African writers being published abroad,” states publisher Bibi Bakare-Yusuf in a video introduction to Cassava Republic Press, “and they’re not available locally. No one’s heard… 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 »

If you only read one blog post about pop-up stores, read this story about small mom-and-pop operation Amazon.com, which has decided to open a pop-up store in New York that… Read more »

The conclusion of the third annual Twitter Fiction Festival last week left a small legacy of interesting and innovative experiments in ergodic literature, and a greater sense that fiction is… Read more »

It’s rough out there on the bleeding edge of digital whatsit fiction. You’re on the last anti-chapter of your hyperlinked extra-illustrated mash-up of House of Leaves and Make Way for… Read more »

When a writer or a translator strips a well-known work down to its essence, as Alice Oswald had done with The Iliad in Memorial, the narrative takes on almost new meaning. In… Read more »

The multimedia artist Nina Katchadourian started her “Sorted Books” project in 1993, when she and her classmates took over various rooms in a friend’s parents’ house to focus on their respective art… Read more »

Dublin, Ireland has unveiled a 60¢; postage stamp printed with the full text of a short story by Eoin Moore (cue headlines with puns related to “licking”). Moore’s story was… 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 »