November 23, 2016

This is a follow-up to an earlier post about the beginning of the What We Do Now project … Call it what you will — crashing a book, “dropping in” a… Read more »

Publishing

Footballer Marcus Rashford's mum accepts Book of the Year award on his behalf — Tom Clayton
Oxford University Press pull Biff & Chip book over "scary" country pages — Tom Clayton
Book Aid For Ukraine auctions off publishing goodies raising relief funds — Nikki Griffiths
Fantasy author raises $25 million on Kickstarter to self-publish 4 new novels — Nikki Griffiths

Megyn Kelly’s new book got (briefly) panned on Amazon. Unfair!

Simon Reichley

According to science, there are a near-infinite number of possible universes, all of which exist in kaleidoscopic, eleven-dimensional parallel to each other. Unfortunately, of all the gazillion possible versions of… Read more »

Book industry plans turnout for inauguration weekend protest

Kait Howard

As hundreds of thousands, if not millions, descend on Washington, DC, to protest at Donald Trump’s inauguration, members of the book industry will be out in full force. Yesterday, Shelf… Read more »

“Post-truth” is the International Word of the Year

Ryan Harrington

As we learned last week, the election has brought a number of new words into the public consciousness. We also learned that the results of the 2016 US Presidential Election seem to indicate that… Read more »

“These truths may be self-evident, but they are not self-replicating.”

Melville House

Many Americans have said many things about the current moment in American politics. Few have said anything as eloquent, or as urgent, as a statement that veteran newsman Dan Rather published on… Read more »

Melville House Books

Anatomy of a crash, episode deux

Dennis Johnson