• The New York Times sparks criticism after releasing an . As , “Another day, another all-white list of recommended reading.”
• On a related subject, apparently books about women . “Women aren’t interesting, this result says. Women don’t count.”
• Flannery O’Connor is . A pretty one—with peacock feathers!
• The Authors Guild : a fresh look at the “standard” contract.
• Yes yes, we know, you’re all tired of analyzing the . But this is worth a look.
• Remember that newly discovered of Shakespeare? It was .
• B-E-A is . So far it’s “.” Jonathan Franzen .
• John Scalzi signed a with Tor for $3.4 million. The advance gives us a boner, but 13 books is a lot of books. Passive Guy has a on all this.
• The way to beat ebook pirates is by .
• The Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction . Chris Connolly took home the prize with “The Imminence of Flight.” His story and those of 17 other finalists will appear in The 2015 Lascaux Prize Anthology.
• Could libraries ? Speaking from a perspective of nostalgia, let’s hope so.
• , the new Kindle font.
• The Conan Doyle estate is . Goodness gracious, the man’s been dead 85 years. Let it go.
• Not everyone can write a good book: from a former publicist turned author.
• The Scrabble dictionary has been with 6,500 additional words. We always knew “cakeages” should be on the list, but “paczki?”
• Roxana Robinson, president of the Author’s Guild, not to write for free. We agree with the writer of the article that “Roxana is dead wrong.” And her mother wears combat boots. Here’s on the matter, for those who want to keep whizzing on her.
• The 2015 stories.
• Six punctuation marks you might be . Strunk & White, people, STRUNK AND WHITE.
• Happy 100th birthday, ! Also, , and forgive us for saying it, but when 750 years old you are, look as good you will not.
• JK Rowling won an from Daily Mail, a British tabloid toiletpaper. The toiletpaper had reported that JK made up the story about being a struggling single mother while writing the first Harry Potter book. She’ll donate the money to charity. While on the subject of JK, here are some books she said . You see? If only you’d read these when you were young, you’d be a billionaire too.
• In the “Oh, all right” department, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s is for sale. So go buy it. Then invite us over.
• Finally, the Lovereading Google Maps . Don’t leave home without it.
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