Earlier this week, Capital New York reported on a new partnership between the New York Review of Books and Vice News. Capital is an excellent publication (full disclosure: I have… Read more »

  “I have a friend who has a drone.” So begins a post on the New York Public Library blog by Morgan Holzer, Information Architect in the Web Group. No, she’s… Read more »

Recently, we brought you a report on the BBC’s forthcoming new drama, The Whale, which will centre around the tragedy of the Essex whaleship, the historical basis for Moby-Dick. Now, we bring you… Read more »

Oh, Canada, Canada, Canada. A furor has erupted there in the past few days over a new code of conduct issued by Library and Archives Canada, which is the governmental… Read more »

Break out your mink hats, Cream fans, here’s Jack Bruce and his mates (Eric Clapton, guitar; Ginger Baker, drums) performing “Tales of Brave Ulysses” live on the Smothers Brothers Comedy… 1 / Read more »

Just in case you need a reason to love the Velvet Underground, here’s one more. This week, for our musicaliterary inspired video, we’ve got the song “Venus in Furs”, the… Read more »

Leave it to Wes Anderson to reverse engineer things, and make a book trailer for a movie — for books that only exist in the fictional universe of the movie.… Read more »

Publishers Johnny Temple of Akashic and Melville House’s own Dennis Johnson were interviewed by C-Span’s Book TV at the industry convention Book Expo America two weeks ago in New York… 1 / Read more »

Just weeks after publishing a memoir called The Riot Within: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption, Rodney King, famous for being beaten savagely by a group of Los Angeles policeman,… Read more »

Tomorrow is Bloomsday, the day when James Joyce enthusiasts across the globe gather to celebrate the events comprising Ulysses, the author’s masterpiece. With this in mind, it seems fitting this week… 1 / Read more »