If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….
— William Butler Yeats
- Another “book tours are dead” article
- Words given wings
- Reviewing the academics (via Maud Newton)
- More Faint Praise (my take here)
- Susan Sontag Prize for Translation
- Tourist Remover
- Google resurrects the dead (via Search Engine Land)
- Old media still not getting new media
Duly quoted
- “Since 2001, employment in the publishing side of America’s book industry has fallen from 88,000 to 81,000, while book-printing employment has dropped from 38,000 to 30,000.” — Progressive Policy Institute