The Black Lives Matter Syllabus
“I’m going to show you. I’m going to make you all proud.” Those are the words Terence Crutcher texted his twin sister Tiffany a few weeks ago about his recent enrollment at a… Read more »
So You Think You Can Write
It was only a matter of time until writers made it onto reality television (I guess?), and Tom Rachman reports in the New York Times that the Italians have beat… Read more »
Penguin Random House acquires Figment
Figment, a site for teenager writers with 300,000 members, was acquired by Penguin Random House yesterday. (Remember when Penguin released Book Country and Pearson bought Author Solutions last year?) Figment’s… Read more »
Indie publisher: Beware Bezos bearing gifts
MobyLives reported last week on Bryce Milligan, the publisher of Wings Press, an indie that’s represented by IPG and so caught in the IPG/Amazon ebook conflict. That report was inspired… Read more »
Book blogging: a review copy debate
The other day, Carolyn Kellogg at the Los Angeles Times brought up some interesting points about book blogging and review copies as a result of an unintentionally brusque e-mail from… 3 / Read more »