• Does Barnes & Noble anymore?
• Simon & Schuster 3.8% in 2014, and profits dropped 5.6%. But that’s okay, they say: current initiatives “will march us into the future.” Your left! Your left! Your left, ri-ight, left!
• Editing clauses in publishing contracts: how to .
• The latest Oprah Book Club pick is , by Cynthia Bond. Oprah fell in love with the book after only the first sentence. I’ll spare you the trouble of looking it up: “Ruby Bell was a constant reminder of what could befall a woman whose shoe heels were too high.”
• It’s never too late to . In fact, maybe you ought to wait. JFK Jr., when asked whether he would ever enter politics, said it was an old person’s game. Something similar could be said for writing.
• from author Elizabeth Spann Craig.
• Mark Twain’s has been recovered. And for the record, I didn’t steal it. I’ve never been to Elmira, New York. Except for that one time, the day the plaque was stolen, but I was just passing through.
• Is fan fiction the ? Part of the fiber, maybe, but the future? Nah.
• Melanie’s Marvelous Measles . Visit the to read the reviews, but please don’t buy the book. You might catch something.
• Library visits are down in the UK, by . Libraries are closing and budgets are shrinking. To a bibliophile like me, this is Armageddon.
• It gets worst. According to the National Endowment for the Arts, only 54% of surveyed Americans last year. Fiction is declining. Poetry fell from 12% to 6.7%. The sky is falling!
• And yet: listen to spoken word poet Sarah Kay recite “,” and prove poetry is as relevant today as it ever has been.
• Apparently with the new book deal. At least everyone who purports to speak on her behalf says so.
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