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The Millions: Could geeking out over a mutually beloved novel surpass even alcohol as the ultimate social ice-breaker?
The Bookseller: Booksellers must address their "toxic" real estate and band together to compete in an "omni-channel marketplace" against some of the richest corporations the world has ever seen, former Borders U.K. chief executive Philip Downer has said. Bookshops, he advised, need to develop personalities because the day of the "general bookshop" was over.
DC Comics publisher defends prequels.
Salon: The maker of the documentary film "Inside Job" has a new book excoriating Wall Street and President Obama.
Barbara Vey
For some reason I've been having a lot of nightmares lately. You know, the kind where when you wake up you don't know what's real and what's not....
Elizabeth Bluemle
Once in a while, I blog about book covers that drive me crazy because they are either overdone, mired in trend and cliché, or are impossible handsells. I figure it's time to celebrate some stando...
Rose Fox
Hotel shenanigans and plastic suburbia....
Adam Boretz
Our final piece in Publishers Weekly's Focus on Audio 2012 is a Q&A with comedian, actor, director, and writer Michael Showalter -- narrator of the audio edition of his memoir Mr. Funny Pants and...
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