America has yet to recover from Andy Warhol (the Brits aren’t celebrity-obsessed at all).
Brian Mitchell, 17, accused of hiring a hit man to kill a witness in a murder case, focused his book report on a searing story called “Until Gwen.”
Do the math: The number of booksellers has declined, the number of readers remains stubbornly the same, the number of publishers (desktop and otherwise) has shot up by the thousands.
Do you mean they’re ugly, or do you mean they are too fat? (The books, that is–via ArtsJournal).
Google, watch out: Microsoft’s Live Book Search portal, to be launched early next year, will make available two strands of material: out-of-copyright scholarly material from educational establishments, and in-copyright books that are sent to Microsoft by publishers or authors and which are scanned by the company free of charge.
McEwan’s muse for Atonement has died.
What the “myths of writing” are vary from person to person. Here’s yet another take (via Booksquare).