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It’s (Word) Award Season!

Well, as you can probably tell by the fact that your neighbors have had their Christmas lights up for nearly ...

Will Bourdain Break Through as a Brand-Name Imprint?

Giving a celebrity a book imprint might sound like the equivalent of bestowing a horse-drawn carriage. (Imagine the maintenance.) But ...

The books that occupy the Occupy movement

Forget outdoor supply stores, books have been central to equipping the Occupy movement. For many of those camped out in ...

The Don Draper Award for Book Publicity

I know I’m not the only person who now looks at every piece of advertising through Mad Men goggles. I ...

How the Booker got snookered

The literary world does bitchy really well. For proof, look no further than this year’s Man Booker Prize, featuring an ...

You Say Reader’s Choice, I Say Independent Literary Awards

Have you ever seen the winners list of certain book awards and wondered how in the world some of those ...

Judging A Reader By Their Cover

When the great Venn diagrams of this world are drawn, and what a day that will be, one of the ...

Steve Jobs, Champion of the (Type)Written Word

The news this week, ever since Wednesday’s passing of Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs at the age of 56, has ...

Glasgow Snuff Films: Where Great Books Go To Die

The sight of Halle Berry and Brad Pitt chills my blood. Trust me, I’ve seen them. The pair stalk the ...

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Yes, “retweet” is totally a word—so says the Oxford English Dictionary in the new, centennial 12th edition of its Concise ...