Time for a Digital Diet?
Anybody feeling the “encroachment of the buzz,” the multitudinous distractions that prevent us from concentrating on a book? Johann Hari is offering survival tips for these distracting times.“A book...
View ArticleArundhati Roy’s Political Writing
What has Arundhati Roy been up to since her 1997 Booker Prize for The God of Small Things? This piece answers that, exploring Roy’s current writings on India’s Maoist rebels.“When her essay about the...
View ArticleRebel Muses
Famous female literary muses Zelda Fitzgerald, Louise Joyce, and Vivienne Eliot were more than just the apple of their respective husbands’ and fathers’ eye. It turns out they were also hard party-ers...
View ArticlePatrons and Propaganda
Michelangelo had the Medicis; Jackson Pollock had the CIA.It’s true—in order to ensure the US kept up with the Soviet Union culturally and artistically, the CIA funded abstract expressionist art,...
View ArticleDave Eggers Gets Google-y Eyed
Dave Eggers’s upcoming novel The Circle is about a woman whose life takes a turn for the sinister after she starts work at “the world’s most powerful internet company” with its “ towering glass dining...
View ArticleBuilding Hagrid’s Hut
Killiechassie House, the £1.9 million Scottish estate author J.K. Rowling calls home, will gain a new addition: a circular stone hut similar to the hut that Hagrid resides in at Hogwarts. The summer...
View ArticleA Solitary Figure
For The Independent, Cahal Milmo pens a profile on Marsha Mehran, bestselling author, noted beauty, and adamant recluse. Spending her time between exile and literature, Mehran championed her...
View ArticleRead a Book, Get a Free Bus Pass
In Chuj-Napoca, Romania’s second-most populous city, an initiative passed to offer book-reading passengers free bus fare during a week in June. The initiative was started by a local citizen’s...
View ArticleFans Leave Behind Notes in Harry Potter Books
Harry Potter fans have been leaving notes in the series’ books for future fans to find. Fan site Mugglenet has been encouraging people to leave the notes and hashtag photos of them with...
View ArticlePublishers Risk Losing Writers
Rude rejection letters could cost publishers the next big author, warns Hannah MacDonald, founder of September Publishing. MacDonald told colleagues at the FutureBook conference that publishers need to...
View ArticlePaying Authors to Appear
The British Society of Authors has called on literary festival organizers to pay authors who make appearances at events. The organization is asking that any literary festivals that charge entrance fees...
View ArticleVisible Only in Literature
From Cinderella and Oliver Twist to Anne of Green Gables and Harry Potter, Etan Smallman muses on the paradox of why so many of literature’s most celebrated protagonists are orphans:Many of the most...
View ArticleTransvestite Vampire Biker Nuns vs. Birdwatchers
Finally, the 2016 Oddest Book Title of the Year nominees have been announced, and they include captivating titles like Transvestite Vampire Biker Nuns from Outer Space: A Consideration of Cult Film and...
View ArticleExistential Black Magic
Desperate stuff, all about sex. Some fella called Simon de Beaver. It’s called existentialism.The Independent’s John Walsh sat down to interview Sarah Bakewell about At the Existentialist Café:...
View ArticleThis Week in Indie Bookstores
Publisher HarperCollins has plans to aid new independent bookstores with a development program in the form of discounts and grants.American Bookstore Association members, a trade organization for...
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This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent and relevant content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet...
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