The Frankfurt Book Fair bows to Chinese censorship, B&N Review gets redesigned, a single sentence animated, private lives made public, and more.
Yesterday evening, I read that poet Jim Carroll passed away this weekend from a heart attack at just sixty years old. I surprised myself by crying for a man I did not even know.
Some would toss their e-book device in the glove compartment and head out on the super highway. I’ll take the heft of the book in my hand.
Israel is Real blowback, authors make it big on HBO, Condé Nast soft-pedals an investigation into Putin, and more.
Dominique Browning asks why somebody won’t think of the children?
Mark Penn continues to embarrass the WSJ, Venezuela cracks down on publishers, the poetry of Shimon Peres, and more.
Amidst all the excitement of the Roths and Moores and Chabons we should not forget about Lydia Davis, whose Collected Stories comes out in one month.
