NYRB launches new imprint devoted to comics
New York Review Comics, the new imprint from NYRB Classics, just released its first title: Agony by Mark Beyer. Originally published in 1987, Agony charts the misadventures of Amy and… Read more »
Houghton Mifflin partners with Weber Grills, inaugurating new era of publisher-brand collaboration
What’s the central threat to the domestic publishing industry? Is it overproduction? Is it Google Books? Is it the United States government’s consistent willingness to define consumer interest in a… Read more »
Two for Tuesday: Have we reached peak ARC?
Topics discussed: advice, Nick During, New York Review Books, Linda Rosenkrantz, Anna Wiener, ARCs, galleys, hyperbole, Twitter backlash, #JadeHelm15, limited edition boxset superproofs, City on Fire, Garth Risk Hallberg, Jonathan… Read more »
Three for Tuesday: An Interview with Tim Parks
Topics discussed: mozzarella sticks, Nick During, incompetence, silliness, fear, Martin Amis, Facebook comments, George Orwell, the New York Review of Books, Charlie Hebdo, Henry Green, the Nobel Prize, John Banville, Tomas Tranströmer, Karl Ove… Read more »
Waterstones names Stoner, which was first published in 1965, their Book of the Year 2013
Authors, take heart. The recognition you deserve could just be a few decades delayed. Case in point: John Williams’s 1965 novel, Stoner, which was just picked as Waterstones’ Book of… Read more »