February 21, 2012
Weekend in Review
by Dennis Johnson
MSNBC fires Pat Buchanan over book
On the “wonderful, terrible” habit of buying too many books
Google Translate: Gallimard, she wants to buy Flammarion
The history of naming publishing companies
Hollywood claims rights to public domain Wizard of Oz
Memoir of Hitler’s son to be republished
Michael Chabon criticized for going after the money …
… and his wife threatens the critic’s penis
Look Who’s Talking in Middlemarch
Shalom Auslander: Writing should feel like sinning
Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.