- Bookstore sales on upward trend;
- What it was like to write Bad Art Friend, then watch it go nuts;
- Strange fuckery in a Texas U? Meh. Involving Steven Pinker? Oooh;
- On getting rid of your books;
- New Fellowship for Puerto Rican writers announces first cohort;
- Librarians gird their loins (and in the case of NYPL, lions) for long censorship battle with the American right wing, which is seemingly intent on turning dystopian fiction into dystopian non-fiction;
- The ever-smart Alison Flood argues in The Guardian that The Wheel of Time books didn’t have the “strong women” Amazon promises for the adaptation at its core… I read the first three of these when I was a kid, and then gave up because I was worried I would die by the time I got to the last one… And I can honestly tell you, they’re just like most other fantasy novels of that vintage: designed for horny boys with delusions of grandeur… boobs, chosen one prophecies that uplift the weak despite their obvious lack of merit, and power domination dreams… Look, Robert Jordan got his start writing Conan novels. Have you ever seen the cover of a Conan novel? It’s advertised right there… That said, she’s right;
- Every now and then some site recovers the history of miniature books, and I love it;
- On the book-within-the-book as a literary tool for the slow reveal;
- It’s that tiny, yearly window when Amazon focuses on books again;
- A little bit of Stephen Fry talking the Gutenberg press?;
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