Indie bookseller gives a hand for beloved single-sentence book
We often valorize the hard work being done, all across the country, by independent booksellers. There’s no better time than December—a month characterized by mis-shipments, demanding patrons, and the stifling… Read more »
In conversation with Steve Almond, author of Against Football
It’s been five years since we published Steve Almond’s Against Football, a treatise Newsweek called “a devastating multi-pronged attack against what [Almond] sees as the sins endemic to the sport’s business:… Read more »
Women writers dominate Italian lit market in wake of Ferrante Fever
One of the decade’s best publishing stories is the breakout success of pseudonymous Italian writer Elena Ferrante. She received the James Wood seal of approval, brought international flavor (and likely some much-improved… Read more »
Barnes & Noble sits out busy holiday shopping season
Publishers Weekly’s Jim Milliot reports that B&N CEO James Daunt won’t be making any immediate, holiday-inspired adjustments to the beleaguered bookstore chain he took over in August. On the one… Read more »
Thanksgiving Staff Pick: Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel
Every year I’m surprised by the dread and despair that Thanksgiving induces in so many of my friends. They’re not without good reason! Thanksgiving is, of course, fraught with colonialist… Read more »
Historic Indian book market threatened by million square foot mall
The College Street market in Kolkata, India, has less than a year to prepare for the arrival of some serious competition. Peter Yeung at Atlas Obscura reports that the legendary market,… Read more »
NFL Prime Time? Bezos might buy football team
It’s easy, from the cheap seats, to complain about the ways billionaires spend their money. But who can really say what they’d do, if they had more money than they knew… Read more »
Anti-fascist bookstore in Rome burns, days before Venice shop floods
Before landing at Melville House last month, I had the great good fortune of managing Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT. I left my BSB family in July, to be… Read more »