The dark visions of Alberto Vitale
Former Random House CEO Alberto Vitale is back from the dead, expounding on the future of publishing and desperately trying to seem relevant in a long interview posted on Publishing… 2 / Read more »
Arguing about “marginal cost”
In an article on the Columbia Journalism Review website Ryan Chittum takes on a spate of recent tech posts “arguing that production costs (you know, minor details like advances, editors,… Read more »
Letters to the editor
There’s a long tradition of scathing notes sent by writers to proofreaders and copy editors. Raymond Chandler, writing to a copy editor at the Atlantic Monthly in 1947, told her… Read more »
Can anyone be part of the literary establishment?
“There is no such thing as the literary establishment. I know this because I am part of it,” writes Geoff Dyer in a Guardian essay. But why not just try and define what… Read more »
INTERVIEW: Rebecca Swift, founder of The Literary Consultancy, on changes in the industry and getting published
Rebecca Swift is the founder of Britain’s first and leading manuscript assessment service, The Literary Consultancy, established in 1996. She talked to MobyLives about the many different paths to publication… 1 / Read more »
Dickens and the paper trail: What we lose when editing is electronic
It’s a Christmas miracle: Cambridge University Press is allowing us to see what the original manuscript of Great Expectations looked like. As The Guardian reports, it’s a charming, labyrinthine mess… Read more »
Hail & Farewell: Peter Campbell
Designer, critic, and painter Peter Campbell, best known for his contributions to the London Review of Books—which included a biweekly watercolor for the magazine’s cover and a review—died October 25… Read more »
The 9%: Women on Wikipedia
Remember the surprisingly unsurprising news from the New York Times way back in January, that fewer than 15% of Wikipedia contributors were women? Then there was the even more depressing… 6 / Read more »
According to a report on Discovery.com, male editors of early drafts of the Bible made a rather startling cut, according to several Biblical scholars: They cut almost all mention that… 7 / Read more »
One of the saddest stories that took place during our August hiatus was the suicide of The Virginia Quarterly Review managing editor Kevin Morrissey, allegedly as a result of workplace… 2 / Read more »