This week in Amazon! I mean books! There were dueling Jeff Bezos profiles in two of our finest print institutions. First up, The New Yorker, which looks at Amazon through the lens of its overall impact and potentially monopolistic practices. And while the profile in The Atlantic covers much of that ground, it also takes […]
National Book Awards
Why do some people become lifelong readers? (This week in books)
This week! Books! As you can see above I recently returned from an exciting voyage to Batuu but I have still been keeping an eye out for good writing and book links back on Earth. I missed the National Book Awards longlist for fiction, and it’s quite a list! Congrats to the nominees: Fleishman Is […]
The article that set publishing Twitter ablaze (This week in books)
This week! Books! Let’s get this one out of the way. Author Heather Demetrios was the talk of the publishing this week due to her long confession in a Medium post that she had no idea how book advances or typical literary careers worked when she got a big advance and proceeded to make many […]