The Princeton Review and Taylor Swift are never ever ever getting back together. The split came after it was revealed that Princeton Review, which preps students for college admissions tests,… Read more »

We’ve written about when book scanners go wrong on this blog, and we’ve also covered the controversy and lawsuits over Google’s decision to scan books. But somewhere in the midst… Read more »

Admit it: you’ve always thought that your tumblr would make a great book. Strangers think so too because they’re always reblogging you like totally all the time. So now, here… Read more »

Last week, Wired ran an obituary for the letter “E”, in which Joshua David Stein claims that the letter has become almost obsolete and completely unfashionable in the internet age. It may… Read more »

The role of librarian comes with a strange moral burden attached — maybe it’s just the effect of hoary old stereotypes, or the fact that the job description demands a certain… Read more »

On May 27, Heather Christle posted a poem on her Tumblr. The poem was Christle’s own; called “1998” and picked from the collection The Trees the Trees (Octopus Books, 2011),… Read more »

After the Chicago Sun-Times laid off its entire photography staff last week, including Pulitzer Prize winner John H. White, the paper announced that reporters would be trained to take iPhone… Read more »

Who Pays Writers?, a days-old tumblr, is already making waves in literary online circles. The site is simple in design, gentle even — a white field with gray text, no… Read more »

Venerable web magazine Salon announced yesterday  that they’d instituted a small change in the way readers would see much of their content. Rather than a “continue reading” button, the entirety of… Read more »

Well, among other things, you encounter Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s moustache, Derek Raymond’s devilish grin, and one very lovely, very famous author dressed in drag … Go check it out. (Sorry if… Read more »