...If any book reviewer can save the review, I'd put my money - but not a whole lot - on these two: Lev Grossman, and a 16-year-old book critic that makes me look like a hack. I feel ancient... (what's with the hair?)
Other news
- Trying to peer into the crystal ball of the publishing industry - a Canadian perspective. And here's Amazon's perspective.
- A six-figure deal for a seven-book series: Is Samantha Shannon the next JK Rowling? Also: Why Barry Eisler walked away from a half-million-dollar book deal.
- Here, have some Taliban poetry. And a senior Kuwaiti books censor speaks. No relationship whatsoever between the two.
- Chinese dissident author Ma Jian on another fellow dissident: Qu Yuan, who's generally associated with glutinous rice dumplings and the Dragon Boat Festival. "...the story of Qu Yuan is quite possibly the story of all genuine, non state-approved Chinese authors."
- Young historians risk academic cred in packaging their research as commercial books. Sounds kind of like ... Niall Ferguson, don't you think?
- An essay on how we should speak English appears to make the case for "keep it simple" and "less is more".
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt plans to file for Chapter 11, a.k.a looking for bankruptcy protection.
- The fate of used book stores in the digital age.
- US study suggests readers may be influenced by characters in fiction. Does this explain book bans?
- Even copy editors have bad days.
- Want to know how to write best-sellers for India?
- Banned: No "Shades of Grey" in Wisconsin, Georgia and Florida libraries.
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