BookHampton Amagansett Gone

from The Sag Harbor Express BookHampton Closes Amagansett Store After two years of business in Amagansett Square, BookHampton may have closed its Amagansett location, but its Sag Harbor store, pictured here with manager Sarah Doherty and Barry Lisee, is still going...

More Dead Novel

from Salon.com RIP: The novel A book that defends plagiarism, champions faked memoirs and declares fiction dead has the literary world up in arms By Laura Miller iStockphoto/Allkindza David Shields’ new book, “Reality Hunger: A Manifesto,” is,...

Good Riddance To Print

from The New York Times Former Book Designer Says Good Riddance to Print By NICK BILTON craigmod.com Craig Mod discusses a series of book “interfaces” that could make the transition from print to digital. A recent blog post by Craig Mod, a self-titled computer...

Four Jars of Preserves and Mostly Friendly Pets

from The LA Times Book tour? More like a safari With publisher publicity departments backing away from traditional author tours, writers are left to their own devices (and strangers’ couches). Book tour (J.T. Steiny / For The Times) By Carolyn Kellogg, March 7,...

Frey de Plume

from The New York Post Frey’s names a guessing game James Frey — the controversial author of “A Million Little Pieces” and “Bright Shiny Morning” — is using so many pseudonyms lately that any nom de plume is suspected to be...