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A quarter of Spotify Premium users listening to its audiobooksFrom The Bookseller: Spotify has revealed data showing that 25% of Spotify Premium users are engaging with its audiobooks offering. The...
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Ten Common Copyright Myths:From Copyright Witness: We receive a large number of enquiries and these often highlight a number of common misconceptions and...
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The Big Bad Wolf, Two Little Pigs and Snow White – Art Nouveau StyleCreated by Microsoft Designer
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How to Write When the World Is a MessFrom Writer Unboxed: “The world is a mess.” I keep hearing this from people who are finding it hard to access their creativity or...
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The Idea of a Stems CollapseWe must now turn to the idea of a systems collapse, a systemic failure with both a domino and multiplier effect, from which even such a...
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After 1177 B.C.From The Wall Street Journal: The Bronze Age in the Near East and Aegean region began around 3000 B.C. It peaked in the 1500s B.C. and ended...
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Indiana’s Intellectual Diversity LawFrom The Chronicle of Higher Education: When I won a teaching award at my university, I was asked to write a brief description of my...
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Wrong couple divorced after computer error by law firmFrom BBC: A staff member at Vardag’s accidentally opened the file of a couple referred to in court papers as Mr and Mrs Williams, when...
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Old ProfessorsOld Professors never die, they just lose their faculties. Stephen Fry
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‘We may lose ability to think critically at all’: the book-summary apps accused of damaging authors’ salesFrom The Guardian: A tech sector dedicated to boiling things down has raised temperatures in some quarters of the publishing world...
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Love, the questLove, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. Helen Rowland
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Censorship Is a Hammer Looking for a NailFrom Publishers Weekly: Last week, the American Library Association released its annual list of the top 10 most challenged books. Once again,...
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‘Transitioning’ to Digital DistributionFrom Publishing Perspectives: This month’s column describes Mensch Publishing’s transition from a mixture of traditional print and...
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Can SEO writing ruin your prose style? And why Bill Bryson can call a book Wubberhumptimuph and you can’tFrom Nail Your Novel: I’ve had this question from Mark…. This question has been bouncing in my brain ever since the digital revolution...
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Why There’s Nothing Icky About Promoting a BookFrom Anne R. Allen’s Blog… with Ruth Harris: Many authors would rather chew off their own arm than stand in the spotlight promoting a...
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Steven Levitt and John Donohue defend a finding made famous by “Freakonomics”From The Economist: More than two decades have passed since we published an academic paper linking the legalisation of abortion to the...
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As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreementAs somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the...
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A bride at her second marriageA bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. Helen Rowland
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The first page of your novelThe first page of your novel is vitally important, but not necessarily because the action starts there. The first page, and first several...
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What Does an A Really Mean?From the Chronicle of Higher Education: When classes pivoted to remote instruction in 2020, some professors — even some entire colleges —...
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College students can be ‘Marriage Pact’-matched with ‘backup plan’ spouse if all else failsFrom Fox News: A college student is helping young adults feel more confident in the future of their love life with a new insurance policy...
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You know, I used to say, when people sayYou know, I used to say, when people say, ‘How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?’ And I say, ‘Well,...
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We’re Never AloneNote: This year, The Paris Review chose author Tobias Wolff to receive the Hadada Award, the magazine’s annual prize for lifetime...
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Adelle Waldman’s new novel follows workers in a big-box storeFrom The Economist: Adelle Waldman’s sharp-eyed observations of intellectuals in Brooklyn chasing book deals and bedmates made her first...
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Chess Teaches the Power of SacrificeFrom The Wall Street Journal: The act of sacrifice holds an elevated and sometimes sacred place in societies across the globe. While...
