Bespoke subscription book service? Sure, why not!
The Guardian wrote a piece about Heywood Hill bookshop, a posh-sounding British bookshop (I’m sure I didn’t use that word right—“posh” that is, not “bookshop”) that once employed Nancy Mitford… Read more »
Amazon has been quietly removing Nazi books from its listings
For The New York Times, David Streitfeld reports that the online super store has been taking down listings for Nazi books including two books by David Duke and several titles… Read more »
A rare tiny book penned by Charlotte Brontë goes on display Saturday
Remember that story we were spinning about Charlotte Brontë, Judi Dench, books the size of a sensible portion of cheese, a man whose guilty brain is on fire? Ringing any… Read more »
Philly literary scene is thriving, full of women, features something called The Claw
Philadelphia’s literary resurgence has everything: a groundswell of new independent bookstores, a thriving community of readers, MFA programs, independent presses, a growing coterie of prominent writers, a women’s writing group… Read more »
Gritty Nancy Drew update goes ahead and just kills off Nancy Drew
Dead girls. They’re everywhere. They’re in the window. They’re in the water. They’re in cabin 10. They on the beach—wrapped in plastic. They’re in red coats and in the snow.… Read more »
First look at Hunger Games prequel sparks outrage
While the controversy over American Dirt is a-brewing right smack in the middle of mainstream book culture at the moment, the usually much-more-tumultuous YA publishing world has managed to kick up… Read more »
Bob Woodward has interviewed Trump for his follow-up to Fear
What comes after fear? Horror? Numbness? Tragedy? Something in between—say, a holding pattern of dazed, ambient anxiety? Better figure that out soon, because legendary reporter of Watergate fame, Bob Woodward,… Read more »
This week in newspeak: Donald Trump, The Environmentalist
Lest we begin to doubt the impact that books can have on the culture, in a backwards and entirely upsetting way, Donald Trump has reaffirmed the power of the written… Read more »
Book adaptations struggle at the box office in 2019
As noted by Paula Bernstein in Fortune, the big screen adaptations of several blockbuster novels of years past failed the impress critically or at the box office throughout 2019. These… Read more »
Remember when you all got mad about books being shelved page-side-out? Well…bad news…
Last May, an interior design tip to display books so their pages faced the room made it onto twitter.com and incited a day or two of genial outrage. This followed… Read more »