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Obituaries

• Bourbon and beasts: Hunter S. Thompson & Ralph Steadman at The Kentucky Derby

  Kentucky Derby weekend (and the hangover that punctuates its end) marks the anniversary of the first collaboration between Hunter S. Thompson and illustrator Ralph Steadman. In “The Kentucky Derby is… Read more »

• Remembering Nina Bourne, book advertising and publishing legend

  Nina Bourne worked in book publishing for  seventy years. After graduating from Barnard, she started her career in 1939 and learned her celebrated copywriting skills from beloved and legendary Simon… Read more »

• The death of print has been greatly exaggerated

  Could we please agree to stop using the word “dead” in headlines about print media and publishing? I’m convinced “the death of print” has been around for at least 130… Read more »

• 5 writers on Margaret Thatcher (and 5 songs she inspired)

  Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first and only female Prime Minister, died yesterday at the age of 87. Over the course of her 11 year reign, Thatcher sold every government asset that… Read more »

• Hail & Farewell: Chinua Achebe

  In 2000, via campus mail, I received an invitation to attend a party to celebrate Chinua Achebe’s 70th birthday. I was a student in his “Modern African Fiction” class at… Read more »

• Hail & Farewell: Jakob Arjouni

  Jakob Arjouni, one of our authors and one of our friends, died in Berlin Wednesday, after a long battle against pancreatic cancer… Read more »

• Dave Brubeck, poetry as jazz

  As many of you by now have heard, Dave Brubeck died yesterday at the age of 91. It was a sad day for good music, a sad day for jazz.… Read more »