I was barely 20 and when I first met Harlan Ellison in the too brightly lit cafeteria of South Mountain Community College in Phoenix, Arizona.…
Category: Books
Then I looked at the fine print. CCSU bases their study on factors like libraries, bookstores, periodicals, newspaper circulation, Internet resources, and education levels. But…
I’m a big fan of the work of Christopher Priest. Many US readers will only be aware of him through a little movie titled The Prestige, based on…
Penguin and Random House intend to merge and have been submitting approval documents to regulatory authorities in all of the major countries they operate in. When…
Co-worker: Hey, I picked this book up for a dollar the other day and it sounded like something you might enjoy. Me: Oh, Boorstin’s The…
It’s a tiny space but she still entertained s with her stories for a little while before signing books.
I heard this on NPR last night and found it to be an interesting intersection between digitizing books and big data. Were people happier in…
“Neil Gaiman has professed himself nervous about his latest book, The Ocean at the End of the Lane. It’s a magical tale, filled with horror…