publishing
A welcome return
After months of radio silence had led to questions from readers about their very existence, small UK publisher Hesperus Press sprang back into online life today with a blog post announcing a sharply designed new series of Brief Histories. From the inaugural batch, I’m particularly excited about Alexandra Johnson’s A Brief History of Diaries: From [...]
Conversation with Blue Hour Press
Justin Runge of Blue Hour Press talks about publishing digital-only chapbooks.
So… What Can Be Done, Exactly?
As an industry philosophy, his perception about reading as a communal activity is both heartening and seemingly irrefutable. But what practices, specifically, does Nash advocate? Has he outlined these practices elsewhere?
The One Speech You Must Hear
On the future of publishing, Richard Nash is sharp as a ginzu. The future of books is about communities.
No sure thing
This press-release-ish Bloomberg article on Chad Harbach’s staggering $650,000 advance for his debut novel, The Art of Fielding, leaves the most pressing question unanswered: Why? The writer gives many reasons why the book could be a low-seller (long page length, a niche topic, Infinite Jest-level ambition,no vampires) without explaining why on earth Little, Brown spent [...]
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