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Gender bias in literary criticism: solutions
Last week, the annual VIDA count revealed the continuing gender bias in US journalism and literary criticism. This topic’s attracted significant attention this past year, thanks in large part to… Read more »
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Lars Iyer’s Spurious short-listed for the Believer Book Award
“Each year, the editors of the Believer generate a short list of the novels and story collections they thought were the strongest and most underappreciated of the year,” and this… Read more »
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The Nook is headed to the UK
According to Wired magazine’s Epicenter blog, Barnes & Noble is sponsoring a March 19th event in London for tech developers. The move would be a savvy one. B&N’s devices have… Read more »
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An arms trafficker’s reading list
What’s Viktor Bout, the convicted international arms trafficker, reading these days? In an interview with Nicholas Schmidle of The New Yorker, Bout—who is currently awaiting sentencing at Manhattan Correctional Center… Read more »
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Are Tablet E-Reader Apps Too Distracting?
At first glance, the ability to read e-books on smartphones and tablets seems like a triumph of technology. Streamlining the experience by eliminating the need for a specific device, they… Read more »
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Day in Review
ALA is “deeply disappointed” at Random House’s new prices for library ebooks The Fake Books of Charles Dickens 500 new Brothers Grim-era fairy tales discovered in forgotten archive The future… Read more »
