Category: publishing

“The suit, filed by the nonprofit group Advocates for Justice on behalf of five preservationists and scholars who include the historian David Levering Lewis, accuses the library of violating its charter and the state’s Constitution by dismantling seven floors of stacks and removing books from the site.”

“Without them, your reading matter will get blander and blander, and if you write a wildly experimental novel, the chances are you will be publishing it yourself. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, but that’s a different subject altogether.”

” Typing is file retrieval, remembering where a letter is. With handwriting, you create the letters anew each time, using much more complex motor skills.”

“This is the first lesson for writers — or anyone — who conducts interviews: If you want someone to talk, you’ve got to know how to listen.”

“On Friday, Granta‘s online editor, Ted Hodgkinson, announced via Twitter that he was leaving the company to join the British Council. Hodgkinson had been at Granta for the last three years; he is the eighth longtime staffer to leave in the last two months amid a larger restructuring.”

“Authors need book clubs much more than the clubs need us. And since a club only picks one book a month, I wanted to do something unique to entice them to pick “The Year of the Gadfly.” Setting an official world record is me telling these clubs: I’m so eager to reach you that I’m willing to give up my entire July to meet you and talk with you.”

“For great writers, retirement is a fairly recent career option. There have always been writers, like Thomas Hardy and Saul Bellow, who kept at it until the very end, but there are many more, like Proust, Dickens and Balzac, who died prematurely, worn out by writing itself.”

“I think that the novella in particular is very likely to see a real resurgence as a result of electronic publishing.”

The founder of Audible claimed the company “employed 2,000 actors to read books last year, and he speculated that he was probably the largest single employer of actors in the New York area.”

“The audience that gravitated to e-books first really was that voracious reader, reading for entertainment, reading multiple books in a month across multiple genres.”