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Fashion icon and designer Karl Lagerfeld, who died Tuesday at the age of 85, had a lot of books. “I hate leisure, except reading,” he once told Women’s Wear Daily. And he walked the walk. He had an extensive library that included…
Excited to finally be reading Figuring, out this month from Pantheon. The author is the brilliant Maria Popova who “writes about what she reads” on Brain Pickings, which is more than a blog, but rather like the elegant connections from an admirable…
Depending on your perspective, it’s been a difficult few weeks for publishing. Or it’s been a golden one. Certainly author tricks, hijinks and missteps have been everywhere, along with scandals and cups of urine. (Wait. What? Never mind. Keep reading.) Front and…
Stephen King’s novella Mile 81 (Simon & Schuster) heralded in the arrival (n full) of the e-book era back when it was first (electronically) published in 2011. Mile 81 wasn’t excerpted from something else. It wasn’t a reprint. It was an ebook,…
What would you risk to achieve your ambition? Would you risk the lives of your family and colleagues to get out of a financial hole? Would you risk all for the next big deal? How far is too far? Layers of Deception…
Beloved British novelist Rosamunde Pilcher died Wednesday in hospital in Dundee, Scotland at the age of 94. From The Guardian: Her son, the author Robin Pilcher, confirmed the news to the Guardian . “She had been in great form up until Christmas,…
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay View, In These Times, CounterPunch, and Noir City. Terrall last wrote for January…
Want some reading material for game day? Here’s a few suggestions. Short Story Book Club offers a round up of football short stories. No really. That’s a thing. You have your game day gear on. You’ve got the food heating on the…
Many people know about artist-illustrator Robert McGinnis because of the iconic posters he’s created for such Hollywood film productions as Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Barbarella, The Odd Couple, Cotton Comes to Harlem, and James Bond thrillers starring both Sean Connery and Roger Moore….
There were a few years there when the future of poetry seemed to hang in the balance. Poets still wrote poems/gave readings. But were audiences shrinking? It appeared so while a lot of people seemed to ignore poetry/rolled their eyes. That was…