November 28, 2012

A collection of tweets, aphorisms, and musings on topics like freedom of expression, art and activism, and the future of China… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Salman Rushdie, Ian Rankin and Joanne Harris amongst those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list — Nikki Griffiths
Lost Charlotte Brontë manuscript sold for $1.25 million — Nikki Griffiths
Waterstones appeal aims to raise £1m for Ukraine disaster fund — Tom Clayton
The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths

Simon & Schuster’s wildly important goal

Claire Kelley

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

Ellie Robins

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

Nick Davies

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

Ariel Bogle

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 »

Melville House Books

Weiwei-isms, or What was that again?

Sal Robinson