Karen Zemanick Monday, April 25, 2011 Blog Today the last known typewriter manufacturer in the world announced it is shutting its doors. The Mumbai company Godrej and Boyce, with about 200 mostly Arabic-language typewriters left in stock, sold 50,000 type ...
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Matt Wood Monday, June 21, 2010 Blog At the New York Review, Tony Judt looks at the decline of articulacy, which he traces to our culture's lack of confidence in what we know, and a fear of getting it wrong. Inarticulacy hedges our bets: Shoddy prose ...
Matt Wood Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Blog Richard Nash, formerly of Soft Skull Press and now launching Cursor, a social publishing venture, says the old system of lifetime copyright contracts is out of date. " Why bother, why continue to participate in th ...
Karen Zemanick Friday, February 25, 2011 Blog ASPIRING NOVELISTS: Did you see the YouTube video “So, You Want to Write a Novel?” by David Kazzie yet? If you haven’t and you have five minutes, watch it right now. Do it. Since the video went viral, currentl ...
Karen Zemanick Tuesday, May 3, 2011 Blog The Los Angeles Times has rounded up its coverage of its 2011 Festival of Books this past weekend. Here’s a sampling. Patti Smith and Dave Eggers discussed writing before a rapt audience. When Smith read from her w ...
Matt Wood Tuesday, June 1, 2010 Blog Speaking at the Guardian Hay Festival, Nadine Gordimer mounted a defense of printed books over digital from a different perspective than the usual arguments about aesthetics or nostalgia, focusing on accessibility by p ...
Matt Wood Friday, June 11, 2010 Blog Some local Chicago news here: Haki Madhubuti, poet and founder of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center at Chicago State University, is moving to DePaul University to become the new Ida B. Wells-Barnett professor, where he will ...
Matt Wood Monday, May 10, 2010 Blog On the Virginia Quarterly Review blog, Megan Alix Fishmann writes about the marginalia in print books that will be lost and impossible to recreate in e-books. Sure, the Kindle lets you take notes, which is nice in a dr ...
Matt Wood Friday, May 28, 2010 Blog Some German researchers say they have found that creative writing can reveal certain things about the author's personality, namely "openness" and "agreeableness." I hope they continue this line ...