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Take it to the mat, and bring some books with you Can you wrestle and read at the same time? Better still, can you make a wrestler read? As if America’s youth did not have enough challenges facing them, WrestleMania has… Read more »
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An attack that “made no sense whatever”: Alexander Cockburn’s fight with a publisher In the American Prospect, Harold Myerson considers the legacy of Alex Cockburn, who died last Friday at 71, by revisiting his peculiar reaction to the demolition of Pantheon Books in… Read more »
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Sales up, earnings down: Same old same old in Amazon’s latest quarterly report Amazon announced its quarterly numbers yesterday, and it was an old story, best repeated by David Streitfeld in a report for the New York Times: Leaping revenue, little profit. That… Read more »
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The only list that matters Let’s start with the facts: you read books. According to NEA surveys, about half of americans do not. But you are reading these very words on the website of a… 4 / Read more »
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Rare Book School: summer camp for book lovers Earlier this week the New York Times ran an article about an event for book nerds that, frankly, sounds like a lot of fun. Rare Book School is held several… Read more »
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FRIDAY SOMETHING-OR-OTHER-TO-DO-WITH-BOOKS MUSIC VIDEO: Phil Ochs Phil Ochs, folkie, counter-culture icon, whinnying witty crooner and occasional madcap drunkard, penned a prodigious amount of songs — many of them alliterative — during the 1960s and early 70s.… Read more »
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Books vs police batons The People’s Library of Occupy Wall Street observe that books have played a crucial role in the OWS. As they write on their Facebook page: Books have become a key… Read more »
