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Finally: A major publisher announces it will go DRM-free
It’s finally happened: a major publishing house has announced it will abandon DRM protection for its ebooks. Yesterday afternoon Macmillan sci-fi imprint Tor/Forge announced in a release on Tor’s website… 6 / Read more »
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A Travel Guide to New Venice (Part I)
To our reader yet unfamiliar with New Venice, beyond a few unclear and mysterious dreams, it has been decided that a few words of introduction might not prove quite useless.… Read more »
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Are novels today gutless?
Fiction in which the author takes a clear political stance and argues for change seems to be disappearing from modern letters. As Aditya Chakrabortty in The Guardian argues, the English or American “political” author… 3 / Read more »
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Antiques Roadshow unearths a signed copy of Gone with the Wind
A guest on Monday night’s episode of Antiques Roadshow, now in its sixteenth season on PBS, brought the show’s expert appraisers a very rare item — a copy of Gone… Read more »
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Letters to the editor
There’s a long tradition of scathing notes sent by writers to proofreaders and copy editors. Raymond Chandler, writing to a copy editor at the Atlantic Monthly in 1947, told her… Read more »
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Day in Review
User’s guide to the brain The debt that burdens Ballard, Dybek, and Krasznahorkai There is no innocent literary prize The internet’s tin ear Eugene O’Neill’s weakness was his strength Ship… Read more »
