September 29, 2016

On 8th October, The Booksellers Association of the UK and Ireland is holding its first National Bookshop Day, with around 2,000 bookshops participating. What awaits book lovers on this inaugural day?… Read more »

Authors

Raymond Chandler once tried his hands at jokes… — Athena Bryan
Prince of Pulp Patterson props up pedagogues; teachers thanked with timely donation — Mike Lindgren
Hail & Farewell, Randall Kenan — Dennis Johnson
On David Graeber — Melville House

Here’s how you pull off a multimillion-dollar e-book scam

Liam O’Brien

The secret to getting rich in the bookselling business is to sell lots of books. Big house publishing and most bookstores rely on gargantuan sales from a handful of tentpole… Read more »

Italian judge metes out justice with feminist reading list

Taylor Sperry

In Rome, a thirty-five-year-old man who was convicted of paying an underage girl for sex has been ordered to buy thirty feminist books… for the girl to read. Rachael Pells reports… Read more »

If this local library had a surplus of money, this Florida resident would probably know to follow it

Chad Felix

Clinton Cash, Peter Schweizer’s 2015 investigation into the Clinton Foundation, is generally considered to be a pretty good hit job. Given its author’s day job as senior editor-at-large for alt-right… Read more »

Melville House Books

Go bookshops, go! The first National Bookshop Day is coming to the UK…

Nikki Griffiths