1911 NYT nugget suggests fiction-divorce connection; “rose-color books” cited
We confess that we don’t always play super-close attention to the “Gray Lady’s” weekly “Books in Brief” missive—so many e-mails! triage! triage! Our fancies were tickled, though, by the inclusion… Read more »
NYTimes tallies tsunami of Trump tomes; why John Dean’s book Is different
On Monday the New York Times published one of their intermittent “what’s going on in publishing” articles, this one titled “Trump Books Keep Coming, and Readers Can’t Stop Buying.” Times… Read more »
AP rules “Black” should now be capitalized; change seen as long overdue
On June 19, 2020—better known, this year, as Juneteenth—the Associated Press formally ruled that the word “Black,” when used in “a racial, ethnic or cultural sense,” must be capitalized. In… Read more »
Book critics org roiled by race controversy; prez, board members resign
The divisions and dissension that have rocked the publishing world over the last two weeks have spread even unto the normally staid world of book reviewers. When a dispute over… Read more »
“C” is for “Censorship”; CIA deploys iron-fisted approval process: sycophants only, please!
The pending publication of moustachioed former national security adviser John Bolton’s book The Room Where It Happened has run into snags during the process of being vetted by the Central… Read more »
Anonymous anti-Trump author censured: Hachette holds hard line
Last week we posted our admittedly somewhat jaded reactions to the news that the anonymous author of the much-discussed anti-Trump op-ed in the New York Times has written a book.… Read more »
Anonymous Trump critic to publish book; secrecy abounds in unusual arrangement
Remember way back in that innocent time of September 2018, when an unidentified Trump administration official published a New York Times op-ed titled “I Am Part of the Resistance”? Does… Read more »
Vanity Fair has an amazing digital archive
Vanity Fair, founded in 1913, created an AMAZING online digital archive with all issues, all pages, and all the fun from the beginning of their time as a magazine until… Read more »
The guy in charge of keeping undocumented youth detained is writing an anti-abortion book
If you keep up with the infuriating news about the Trump administration’s statements and actions against immigrants and refugees, then you are probably familiar with the name Scott Lloyd? The… Read more »
We will not be rid of fake news until we learn how to detect it
One media professor is taking our country’s reluctance to discern critical information to heart, and teaching students how to detect fake news in social media and more traditional media. For… Read more »