Meet a legendary, even mythical, support group in Portland, run by Chuck Palahniuk: “I recognize several of the attendees: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Abraham Verghese, Eoin Colfer.”
Category: publishing
Who Will Win The (Meerkat Holiday Book) Battle Of Britain?
That’s right: The Brits like their meerkats. Celebrities in the U.K. fight it out for top holiday meerkat book status.
In France, Producing E-Books With An Eye On The Future
The media site Owni.fr hasn’t quite figured out this e-book thing yet, but it’s throwing resources toward “livrels” anyway in a bid for a future French audience.
Digital Doesn’t Kill Books (Really! It’s Saving Print)
Four new ventures into the rapidly mutating world of publishing bravely chart new territory – or is it ground Dickens, magazines and T.V. shows have already covered?
Have You No Aspiration Left, Britain?
Geoff Dyer on Julian Barnes’ Booker prizewinning novel, The Sense of an Ending: “There seemed less to get second time around. If such a thing is possible, I didn’t get it even more than I hadn’t got it first time around.”
Why Poets Love Ampersands
“For nearly a century, the ampersand has been a key feature of certain strands of American poetry. To understand the ampersand’s history in the genre, one must return to the character’s origins–which are somewhat obscure, in part because they date back to antiquity.”
The Best Of Christopher Hitchens: A Slate Smorgasbord
Slate‘s June Thomas: “Editing Christopher Hitchens, who died Thursday at the age of 62, was the easiest job in journalism. He never filed late – in fact, he was usually early, even when he was clearly very sick – and he managed to make his work seem like a great lark.” Thomas offers her favorite bits of Hitch’s work.
What Bookstores Have That Amazon Doesn’t: People
“Bookstores enjoy a rare trait: To many, the store itself is seen as at least as important to the community as the product it sells. There are several reasons for this, which is why a Slate story published earlier this week called ‘Don’t Support Your Local Bookseller’ has sparked a small online uprising of indignant bookworms.”
E-Books Start To Evolve Significantly Beyond Paper
“Designed to take full advantage of the new technology, the best of them are far more elaborate and interactive than ordinary e-books that simply reproduce printed content. They are also generally more expensive, suggesting a whole new value equation for digital content.”
Auction Of Naguib Mahfouz Archive Arouses Anger In Egypt
“Sotheby’s announcement that it had scheduled a ‘highly significant archive’ of work by Nobel literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz for auction this Thursday has sparked vigorous debate in the author’s native Egypt.”