Two of our favorite people — Steve Almond, author and one-time MobyLives contributor (well, many-time contributor), and Kevin Sampsell, author and publisher of Future Tense Books — discuss what happens… Read more »

Tao Lin, author of Richard Yates, marvels at a bus stop ad.

Move over e-books, the cake-book is here. Flavorpill made our Friday with this wonderful bit of literary confection. So we thought we’d return the favor and highlight a few of… Read more »

French publishers just aren’t having anything to do with it. Rien. According to a report by Barbara Casassus and Philip Jones for the Bookseller, Agent Andrew Wylie has moved to… Read more »

As a weird tangential story to this week’s tumult surrounding e-books (see this story by Julie Bosman in the New York Times about a couple of e-books priced higher than… 2 / Read more »

“There now is your insular city of Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs — commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets… Read more »

We return to the obscure but delightful English words that French author Jean-Christophe Valtat uses in his novel Aurorarama – words that had our copy-editor reaching for her dictionary. apperceive: to make… Read more »

Always a charming conversant, David Foster Wallace discusses the split in the U.S. market between commercial writing and more literary fare, and our growing inability to handle the alone-time of… Read more »

We recently reported on the betting odds for the Nobel and Man Booker literary prizes. It turns out the Nobel jury once again thwarted American authors and gambler’s expectation by… Read more »

Earlier this week a Publishers Weekly report said that Google has yet again set a timeline for the launch of Google Editions. Well, sort of. Not really. According to the… Read more »