Category: publishing

A list.

“Barnes & Noble Inc, the largest U.S. bookstore chain, on Tuesday reported a higher than expected quarterly profit as it cut store workers’ hours scaled back its money losing Nook business, helping it offset sharp sales declines … [of] 8 percent.”

Adam Kirsch: “What made, and still makes, [the book] so inflammatory to some readers is in large part Arendt’s tone; but tone, in this case, is closely connected to substance.” Rivka Galchen: “Many of the objections to her work are based on arguments [she] never made.”

“In the comic Tell, the legendary nationalist has returned as a towering cyborg who protects a crumbling future Switzerland from villains sowing anarchy in once-pristine Zurich. Tell’s digital eyes identify foes, and his trademark crossbow shoots radiation-tipped arrows.”

“Putin apparently decided recently that it was time for him to take over literature, and he reached for the only kind of literary legitimacy he understands: the great names.” Masha Gessen visits the University of the Friendship of the Peoples in Moscow for the All-Russian Literary Gathering, packed with namesakes and relations of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Solzhentsyn, etc.

“Fan fiction in its current form was born in the late 1960s, in the pages of mimeographed science-fiction fanzines. But it has flourished in the Internet age.”

“The book is becoming more like the web, opened up to web-like forms of inquiry, to searching, excerpting and analysis. In the long term, the possibilities for research, learning and discovery are endless.”

“Some of the best of our writers, even those with international reputations are unknown to the general reader as a result of what we feel is the narrow focus of our reviewers and awards cultures. “

“It’s a model that isn’t rooted in community, isn’t rooted in humanity, is all about the dollar bills and trite, unhealthy, viral sense of Make Or Break explosiveness that usually makes human shells out of people when it doesn’t all out kill them.”