Reb Livingston, the publisher of No Tell Books, has written a post about the economics of her own press in the light of the BlazeVOX controversy. What kinds of sales…
Paul La Farge’s novel is coming to your local bookseller’s shelves soon. Luminous Airplanes, is about a man cleaning up his deceased grandfather’s home. His book’s got an accompanying website…
This week in San Francisco…!!! Tuesday 9/6: Comedians and collaborators Boots Riley and W. Kamau Bell discuss their careers, dreams, and years of incorporating the political and personal into the…
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine…
Sometimes Google gets it wrong … which can be rough on the small businesses it marks as “closed” when they’re actually not. Has email driven the closure of the US…
New York’s September’s got a slew of literary events, brought to you by Housing Works Bookstore Café at 126 Crosby in SoHo. The events range from internet meme-themed variety shows,…
The International Children’s Digital Library is providing free access to books, hoping to collect books from all cultures and languages in order to preserve a sense of family heritage and…
A descendant of Cheever, Stuart Nadler traces evolving relationships with delicate, precise prose in his debut short story collection, The Book of Life.
Perhaps you are wondering what the proper protocol is when looking for a yeti in the 50s. Have y’all been following the constitutional goings on in Iceland these days? I…