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August 6, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner

Book News: Courtroom Sketches, E-Book Animosity

The Washington Post announced yesterday that it is being sold to Jeff Bezos Amazon founder for two hundred and fifty million dollars. (David Remnick on why the owner Donald Graham sold the paper to Bezos;...
August 5, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner

Book News: Mass-Market Marathon, Shakespeare’s Zero

Sherman Alexie’s “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” which tells the story of a Native American boy who transfers to an all-white school, has been pulled from the sixth-grade summer reading list of...
August 1, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner

Designing “Lolita”

Designing a cover for a controversial novel is always a fraught endeavor, but few novels come with as much visual baggage as “Lolita”…
July 25, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner

Tweets from a Lonely Planet

One travel writer created a Twitter hashtag for reminiscences about far-flung Lonely Planet adventures.
July 22, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner

Book News: The Discoverability of Books, The Biographies of Poets

A Mississippi judge has dismissed the lawsuit brought against Sony Pictures by the owners of the rights to William Faulkner’s works over a line from Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris.” “To me, Mademoiselle was...
July 18, 2013
Blog: Culture Desk

Woody Allen’s Standup

Woody Allen has been “toying with the idea” of developing new standup material…
July 8, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner

Internet Book Fetishists Versus Anti-Fetishists

A perennial topic of debate among literary types on the Internet is the relative importance of books as physical objects…
July 8, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner

Book News: Linked And Unlinked Reading, Cringeworthy Words

The New York Times reports that Amazon, facing reduced competition from other booksellers, has been cutting discounts on scholarly and small-press books. (How Amazon’s fluctuating prices are affecting publishers.) Guillermo del Toro tells the...
July 5, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner

Book News: Miranda July’s Newsletter, David Rakoff’s Posthumous Novel

Cengage Learning, one of the country’s largest publishers of college-course material, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.Miranda July’s new project, “We Think Alone,” commissioned alongside an exhibit at the Stockholm museum Magasin 3, is a...
July 2, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner

Book News: “Sandman” Returns, Plath’s Drawings

Penguin and Random House finalized their merger on Monday, calling their union “the world’s first truly global trade book publishing company.” DC Entertainment’s Vertigo has announced that Neil Gaiman will bring back his “Sandman”...
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