On David Graeber
Melville House
Brooklyn, September 2, 2020 — We are sad to announce the passing of our author David Graeber. He was 59 years old, and died yesterday in a hospital in Venice,… Read more »
Brooklyn, September 2, 2020 — We are sad to announce the passing of our author David Graeber. He was 59 years old, and died yesterday in a hospital in Venice,… Read more »
Another year at the Hay Festival, the UK’s annual “Woodstock of the mind,” another controversial lecture by a leading academic. Indeed, Germaine Greer has been at it again, this time attempting to redefine… Read more »
We’re all going to hell, but hopefully with the impending destruction of the universe more space will open up for new peaks of literary greatness. Luckily, Maddy Foley over at Bustle… Read more »
As any New Yorker surely knows, the great indie booksellers at McNally Jackson opened up a new shop in Williamsburg earlier this year. Manager Sam MacLaughlin very graciously took a few… Read more »
I’m a pretty standard news consumer, in that I love reading stories about things that are familiar and relatable to me, particularly in a professional sense. And if it’s a… Read more »
Last week, Buzzfeed published an essay by the writer Isaac Fitzgerald about his encounters with books during his youth and early adulthood. In the piece, Fitzgerald described a few of… Read more »
Yesterday, “legendary hoarder” and newsletterman Mike Allen reported that former White House press secretary Jay Carney will join Amazon next week. Carney’s new title is “senior vice president for Worldwide… Read more »
Earlier this week, the Indianapolis Star reported that Indiana governor and potential Republican presidential candidate Mike Pence was starting a taxpayer-funded, state-run news outlet called Just IN. This was weird. Why… Read more »
Last week, London residents made their way into the tube for their Monday morning commute after the holiday vacation where they were confronted with tube advertisements designed by Strike! Magazine.… Read more »
Hachette Book Group is selling three titles directly through its authors’ Twitter accounts. The trial run includes three authors with substantial fan bases: astronaut Chris Hadfield, singer Amanda Palmer, and,… Read more »