Melville House and the NYPL kick off the Climate Change Reading Group!
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably heard about the Melville House Climate Project. But, in case you’re new around here, let’s recap! In November 2018, the Trump administration quietly released the USGCRP… Read more »
Canadian historian unearths the long lost catalog of Hernando Colon’s massive 16th century library
In the early 16th century, Hernando Colon, the bastard son of Christopher Columbus, set about collecting the largest and most comprehensive library in the western world, funded by his father’s… Read more »
350NYC Releases Climate Emergency Media Standards
As part of our ongoing Climate Project Campaign, we’ve been working with the fine folks at 350NYC, our local branch of 350.org. Recently, they’ve launched an absolutely crucial campaign to… Read more »
Scribd to launch original content series with non-fiction by Garrett Graff
Scribd, an online reading subscription service founded in 2007, announced two months ago that they would begin publishing original content, in addition to providing subscription-based access to ebooks, audiobooks, articles, and other… Read more »
Nearly ten years in the making, Chelsea Green Publishing completes transition to employee ownership model
As reported by Alex Green in Publishers Weekly, Chelsea Green Publishing has completed their transition to employee ownership. The employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) was conceived by founders Ian and Margot Baldwin in… Read more »
Alaa al-Aswany, Egyptian author and activist, is being sued by the Egyptian military for insulting President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
Alaa al-Aswany, author of The Yacoubian Building and critic of the political regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, will face a lawsuit filed by the military authority of Egypt. According to reporting… Read more »
Amazon removes from the marketplace books promoting dangerous and false “cures” for autism
One week after concerns regarding Amazon’s algorithmic promotion of whack-o conspiracy theory garbage made headlines, the company is back in the news for removing a different breed of insane and… Read more »
Awaeke Emezi, a non-binary trans person, has made the longlist of the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction and that’s great!
The UK’s prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction announced the long list for the 2019 prize on March 4. As always, it’s a diverse and star studded list, including perennial heavy-hitters… Read more »
Lawsuits all the way down: the bizarre afterlife of To Kill a Mockingbird continues
According to reporting by Alexandra Alter and Michael Paulson for The New York Times, dozens of community theater productions of Christopher Sergel’s 1990 stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill… Read more »
Jonathan Lethem joins Bill Henderson to give new life to out-of-print works
Independent publishing is a business with few celebrities. You wouldn’t call it a glamorous industry. Which is why it’s all the more noteworthy when two genuine superstars join forces on… Read more »