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Ten Great Writers Nobody Reads
No one will read your book. This isn’t an insult. It’s a statistical fact. For an example that’s depressing on many levels, take Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s Killing Patton, which according to...
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Ten Great Books With Their Own Languages
In a “Note on Language” in The Wake, his debut novel just published in the US by Graywolf Press, Paul Kingsnorth argues that he doesn’t “get on with historical novels written in contemporary...
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Literary Long Weekend: San Francisco
On June 6, during a panel at the inaugural Bay Area Book Festival, a New York Times columnist claimed, much to the vocal displeasure of those in attendance, that only two bookstores remained in San...
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10 More Great Writers Nobody Reads
Writing in 1934, John Dos Passos characterized the publishing industry in a manner that holds true nearly a century later: “Everything published goes down the same chute out of the overbright glare of...
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Katie Holten on Turning Words and Paragraphs into Whole Forests
Katie Holten’s tree project is the best example I’ve encountered in recent memory of a simple idea that carries the weight of something much more complex. Holten, an Irish-born visual artist based in...
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Introducing: Bookselling in the 21st Century
The American Booksellers Association has a page on its website called Independent Bookstores Are Thriving, on which one can read headlines like “Judy Blume on Why Independent Bookstores are Thriving,”...
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Bookselling at the End of the World
On the afternoon of Wednesday, March 18, 2020 I stood in an empty bookstore and cried. A friend had just sent a congratulatory text with a picture from the April issue of Alta Magazine. My wife and I...
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