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 »

One of the mantras of the DIY and cost-cutting forces assaulting publishing these days is that editors are “an unnecessary step in the content process,” observes ibm.com editor in chief… 2 / Read more »

The Los Angeles Times has named a new book editor to replace David Ulin: In another terse press release the paper announced rather joylessly that managing editor Jon Thurber will… Read more »

A few months back, we engaged in some “irresponsible speculation” about who might be in line for the editorship of The Paris Review. The magazine’s current editor, Philip Gourevitch, announced… 2 / Read more »

India’s national newspaper, The Hindu, has a lovely feature written by academic and literary critic Meenakshi Mukherjee on The Writers Workshop, a legendary publishing house that has been a major… 2 / Read more »

“I’d hardly settled behind my desk when one of my bosses asked if I would join her in the corner office. ‘Please close the door,’ she said as I entered… Read more »

Indie publishers walking the streets of the big city are hearing it a lot these days: “You guys are the ones who are going to survive this thing.” The idea… Read more »

In a move that was expected but made suddenly overnight, Barnes & Noble laid off (previously known as “fired”) 100 people yesterday, or, as you prefer, eliminated 100 “positions” (formerly… 8 / Read more »

Those who decry the waning influence of literature upon public discourse should take heart from the way Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel about Laura Bush, American Wife, seems to have prompted —… Read more »

Barely a month after leaving Random House, where he was editor of such bestsellers as Seabiscuit and The Orchid Thief, Jonathan Karp has been named as the pubisher of a… Read more »