A Residency In Portland

from Observer Sci-Fi Author Ursula Le Guin’s Portland Home Is Becoming a Writers Residency Le Guin had a clear vision for her home to become a creative space for writers and a beacon for the literary community, according to Literary Arts director Andrew Proctor....

Next To Heaven

from Deadline Who Is Anonymous, The Author Of Hot Book ‘Next To Heaven?’ Deadline Solves The Mystery As TV Rights Deal Closes With Publishing Pact Coming By Mike Fleming Jr. The novel Next to Heaven hit the market this week. Written by Anonymous, it’s a social satire...

AI Frey

from Centre Pompidou James Frey: “I use artificial intelligence because I want to write the best book possible.”  James Frey is on holiday with his children by a lake in Wisconsin. Against this bucolic backdrop, the American writer with shaved head is lost in...

TBK IDK

from RealClearMarkets Yet Another Attempt To Make Sense of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ By John Tamny In his excellent new memoir, Never Say You Had a Lucky Life (review coming soon), Joseph Epstein writes of a Harvard economics...

Some of them eat raw hamburger… while on duty.

from Atlas Obscura 6 Badass Librarians Who Changed History They will not be shushed. BY APRIL WHITE LIBRARIANS HAVE NEVER BEEN A quiet bunch: Information, after all, is power. To mark National Library Week—typically celebrated the second full week of April—Atlas...

Fight Pub

from The Free Press The Fight for the Future of Publishing Ideological fanatics and fear have crippled the major houses. But new book publishers are rising up to take the risks they won’t. By Alex Perez Illustration by Monsieur Collage for The Free Press On September...