Up until the age of 76, Updike never stopped working, turning out a vast body of words. But nothing can top the astonishing piece he wrote on Ted Williams' final game.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 02.21.2009 | Media
BookCamp London started with a blank grid: 6 time slots and 5 spaces (or 5 spaces, 6 time slots?), with participants asked to fill in the grid, adding sessions they'd like to discuss.
Joanne Rendell | Posted 02.14.2009 | Style
When I was reading, I started to realize that Barack Obama, the very-soon-to-be 44th President of the United States of America, is Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy.
Nicole Kenealy | Posted 02.11.2009 | Media
Another article informing me about the impending death of the publishing industry. Like I needed a reminder? Black Wednesday wasn't so long ago that we already need a recap.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 02.07.2009 | Media
I no longer have to carry a book, because I have 75 of them sitting on my iPod, which I have anyway. The Kindle & Sony Reader both say: carry me the way you used to carry your book.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 02.06.2009 | Media
If everyone can cheaply produce media -- music, text, video, sound, and photos -- then much of it is going to be of little interest to most of us.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 01.27.2009 | Media
The book business has stopped caring much about books. Like all businesses with stock, the people running them have one central responsibility: to increase shareholder value.
Joanne Rendell | Posted 01.22.2009 | Style
Kids' fiction unleashes our long-ago dampened imaginations, so take a break from that Salman Rushdie book you're reading, and treat your mind to a kids book this holiday.
Frankie Sturm | Posted 01.19.2009 | Home
Leo Tolstoy was always a dark horse candidate for Secretary of Defense. For starters, the Senate would never confirm a dead Russian to such a critical...
Hugh McGuire | Posted 01.12.2009 | Media
One thing did become clear when I spoke to other people about ebooks though. They are seen as a supplement to the printed word, not a replacement for it.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 12.27.2008 | Media
Like Tom Joad returning to his home only to find his family gone and the house half covered by the encroaching rows of cotton, each of us this Thanksgiving will find something at home that we did not expect.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 12.22.2008 | Media
That's how many e-books are getting downloaded through Stanza, the simple e-book platform for the iPhone/iPod.
Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 12.21.2008 | Entertainment
Alastair Campbell's depiction of a gauche sexual encounter in his debut novel All in the Mind has won him a place on the shortlist for the literary wo...
Hugh McGuire | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media
Reading digital text on a small handheld device is nothing like reading text on a computer (desktop or laptop). A mobile device is much more comfortable, for plenty of reasons.
Howard Wolinsky | Posted 12.02.2008 | Chicago
Studs was an advocate for progressive change and I wish he had lived long enough to hear what he had to say on the outcome of Tuesday's Presidential election.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 12.01.2008 | Chicago
Studs Terkel died on Friday in Chicago at the age of 96. He was too young. But then, whenever he ended up dying, he'd be too young.
Maxine Hong Kingston | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
I am certain that growing up in Hawai'i, Obama learned the values of ho'oponopono and ohana.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 11.28.2008 | Media
Reading an ebooks is just "another way" to be reading, it's not necessarily a replacement of a hard copy. I prefer to talk to people face-to-face, but I recognize the utility of the telephone.
Robert Brustein | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
The Candidate appears on Fox before three weird blonde anchors, Greta Van Sustren, Rita Cosby, Anne Coulter. They chant, "All Hail McCain, Thane of Arizona, that shall be President hereafter."
AP | ONDREJ HEJMA | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media
PRAGUE, Czech Republic — A document written by the Czech Communist police claims that Milan Kundera _ author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Bei...
Rick Ayers | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media
The comments of the Swedish Academy secretary suggesting that an American is unlikely to win the Nobel Prize in Literature this week have provoked great patriotic upswellings.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 10.30.2008 | Media
There's going to be a shake-up, no doubt. It'll be ugly for publishing companies that don't adjust.
Jeff VanderMeer | Posted 09.14.2008 | Entertainment
This summer has seen the release of some engrossing novels that reflect a post 9-11 sensibility that assimilates and responds to the last seven years of absurdity, horror, heartbreak, stupidity, and dueling cynicism-idealism.
Sarah Seltzer | Posted 09.09.2008 | Entertainment
If you've been spending time in proximity to teenage girls this week, there's a strong chance you've heard about Edward Cullen. Cullen is the undead hero of bestselling young adult fantasy/romance series The Twilight saga.
Jennifer Nix | Posted 08.06.2008 | Living
I once again see the potential and power of literature, and hope to tell new and necessary stories. As activists, we must not lose sight of art. Here are some questions I posed to Aleksandar Hemon.
David Margolick | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media