Weiwei-isms, or What was that again? A collection of tweets, aphorisms, and musings on topics like freedom of expression, art and activism, and the future of China… Read more »
Simon & Schuster’s wildly important goal Ask any Simon & Schuster employee about their “WIG,” and a look of recognition mixed with a Nietzschean grin into the abyss* will flicker across his or her face. In… Read more »
Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day This Saturday, December 1st, is the third annual Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day. If you don’t have your own child you could try borrowing one, though I hear… Read more »
The fall of the House of Poe While the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum has not actually fallen, it is certainly facing some hard times. Poe’s historic home in Baltimore has been vandalized in the past… Read more »
In China, mobile phones may prove a boon for literature There has been a great deal of attention paid to China, publishing and copyright this past year, and now, some reporters and publishers on the ground are offering a more… Read more »