In the only good news anywhere this week, illustrator Ehsan Abdollahi has been granted a visa!
Guys! Gals! We did it! We won! Last week, we wrote about Ehsan Abdollahi, and his frustrating attempts to obtain a travel visa in advance of the Edinburgh International Book Festival.… Read more »
Journalists, critics, and editors have released a statement of solidarity with workers of the Village Voice Union
We’re a little late to the party on this, but in case you haven’t already heard, members of the Village Voice Union (a historic chapter of the UAW Local 2110,… Read more »
Illustrator Ehsan Abdollahi is denied a visa by the UK’s Home Office in advance of the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Ehsan Abdollahi, illustrator of When I Coloured In the World by Ahmadreza Ahmadi and A Bottle of Happiness by Pippa Goodhart (both published in the UK by Tiny Owl) and citizen of Iran, has been denied… Read more »
Chinese architects have completed a bookwormhole in Zhejiang Province
Imagine you’re in a wormhole, rocketing across spacetime at the speed of light, plummeting through the multiverse like a lead weight sinking to the bottom of a cool, clear lake. Now… Read more »
An angry dude is suing Chelsea Clinton for copyright infringement
According to reports by Kaja Whitehouse and Natalie O’Neill of the New York Post and Kaileen Gaul of the Daily Mail, a man from Albany, NY is suing former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and her publisher, Penguin… Read more »
UK man returning from Syria arrested for possessing a partial copy of The Anarchist Cookbook
Ryan Gallagher recently published a long profile in the Intercept. His subject, Josh Walker of Wales, was recently arrested in the UK after returning from a stint with the YPG (an… Read more »
Everything you ever wanted to know about teens, emoji, and heiroglyphs
Some people use emoji. Some people do not use emoji. Some people, when they use emoji, use them to ask a partner or friend whether they should eat pizza for… Read more »
New York Times copy desk protests Dean Baquet and Joe Kahn’s plans to radically reorganize Gray Lady’s editorial department
At the end of May, Dean Baquet and Joe Kahn circulated a memo to the editorial staff at their paper, the New York Times, informing them of plans to dramatically recalibrate the newsroom,… Read more »
Founder of NYC radical bookstore Bluestockings re-ups in sunny San Francisco, with Black Bird Bookstore
If you’ve ever been to Bluestockings Bookstore, Activist Center, and Fair Trade Café on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, you would probably agree that “minimalist” is not a particularly apt descriptor of the… Read more »
How my publishing job was made totally super-obsolete with a little help from Leslie Norins, MD, PhD
Folks, the jig is up. After decades of market research, untold hours fiddling with Photoshop, trackless weeks spent optimizing and promoting and cross-marketing and emailing and reading and burning sacrificial… Read more »