October 28, 2013

As seems to be happening with increasing frequency lately, a couple of weeks ago I got invited to another country, in this case Sweden, to speak about contemporary publishing, with… Read more »

Amazon

Returning an ebook after reading: is Amazon's return policy damaging to authors and publishers? — Nikki Griffiths
Dave Eggers’ new hardcover will be available in indie bookstores only — Bryn Goldstein
"BoxedOut" campaign to warn customers of costs of shopping on Amazon this season — Ryan Harrington
What are the other options for those who think GoodReads “sucks” and is “just shy of unbearable”? — Athena Bryan

What We Talk About When We’re Talking About Suzanne Rivecca Talking About Mary Gaitskill

Sal Robinson

When critic and writer Suzanne Rivecca wrote an essay for the Rumpus a couple of weeks ago about the way male critics tend to write about Mary Gaitskill’s work —which… Read more »

Was James Agee related to Walt Whitman?

In the November 7 issue of The New York Review of Books, Ian Frazier’s review of James Agee’s Cotton Tenants, includes an intriguing parenthetical remark as he describes Let Us Now Praise… Read more »

What’s it like to be a ghostwriter? V.C. Andrews’s longtime ghostwriter tells all.

Nick Davies

Under his own name, Andrew Neiderman is probably best known for writing the novel The Devil’s Advocate, which itself is better known as the 1997 film version. But as Rachel Martin… Read more »

Bridging gaps between poets

Emma Aylor

As reported on Harriet and The Millions, an Indiegogo campaign by Brooklyn Poets asks for funding to build “The Bridge,” a new site which would become “the world’s first poetry network connecting… Read more »

Melville House Books

Is Amazon in trouble?

Dennis Johnson