Someone has won a Welsh bookshop in a raffle and we’re not jealous at all
This week, Charlotte Eyre in the Bookseller reported that a man had won an entire bookshop in a promotional raffle organised over three months by retiring bookseller Paul Morris, of Bookmarks… Read more »
Summer in New York is terrible, which is why you should read Viking Economics
Two weeks ago, New York City faced down a heatwave so blisteringly gross that all outdoor living became unreasonable. As a longtime New Yorker, this is not a new experience — summer… Read more »
Iceland celebrates annual “Christmas book flood”
In publishing, the holiday season is a time to look back and celebrate the most successful books of the year. Unless, that is, you live in notoriously book-friendly Iceland, where many… Read more »
PRESS RELEASE: Melville House to publish book by mayor of Reykjavík, Jón Gnarr
Icelandic comedian invented a political party and won the mayoral election; his term ends June 2014 Brooklyn, NY, February 18, 2014 – Melville House has announced the acquisition of a memoir from the… Read more »
Iceland: books and Björks
New figures about Iceland’s publishing and reading habits came out recently that show how Icelanders rack up intellectually against their regional neighbors. A study from Bifröst University, reported on by… Read more »