The 2016 VIDA Count is out, adds intersectional tracking based on age and educational background
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts released their 2016 survey results this week. Each year, the count tracks representation in literary media by gender. This is the first one to factor in age… Read more »
Back to the future: A DIY history of nerd-strife in the University of Iowa’s Helevin Collection
Librarians, archivists, and garden-variety nerds are working together to digitize the trove of science fiction “pulps, fanzines, fan convention materials, books, and art” in the University of Iowa Library’s Helevin… Read more »
Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron address the Frankfurt Book Fair
As Andrew Albanese reports at Publishers Weekly, and Anna Codrea-Rado at the New York Times, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron made a joint address at the opening ceremony… Read more »
I want to believe: Donald Trump traveled back in time to ghostwrite a pair of terrible adventure novels about how smart he is
In 1889, Ingersoll Lockwood, lawyer and novelist, one-time ambassador to the Kindgom of Hanover, and son of Munson Ingersoll Lockwood, wrote a pair of novels following the fantastic escapades of Wilhelm… Read more »
Journalists at the LA Times are attempting to form a union
On Wednesday morning, LA Times national correspondent Matt Pearce posted this photo of a letter announcing a public campaign to unionize the paper’s newsroom: https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/915586452884307972 The letter formalizes a union drive that… Read more »
From sea to shining sea: Amazon to open a second North American headquarters
Amazon is planning on opening a second headquarters sometime in the next few years. According to a press release, the new digs will be called HQ2 (BOOOOORING), and the location will… Read more »
Biff, Chip, Kipper, cottaging — you know, normal British stuff
As Alison Flood reports this week at the Guardian, Oxford University Press is catching some classic Twitter heat for an alleged depiction of “cottaging” in an installment of their popular children’s book series… Read more »
You say no to drugs, Lee Child can’t
Lee Child (né James Grant) has sold 100 million copies of his Jack Reacher novels, and (by our count) smoked at least 13,640 joints over the last forty-four years. At least. This… Read more »
Experts agree, colonialism was a lark
The editorial staff of the Third World Quarterly has resigned in protest over the publication of a controversial article in the journal’s most recent issue. The piece, titled “In Defense… Read more »
Sean Spicer and Margaret Atwood at the Emmys
Television is a pretty big deal in America. Lots of people watch it. Lots of people get paid too much money to write about it. Some people imagine political figures… Read more »