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Illustrations of authors, if we were to take their names literally.
Tailless Monkey Arrested for Telemarketing Fraud, and other new titles for classic children’s books based only on their covers.
The real instructions needed to build an IKEA bookshelf.
Lonely Fitzgerald Read more
Robin Sloan on books, the internet and his debut novel, Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.
Death By Subtitle: How Extravagantly Fallacious Subtitles Are Ruining Books.
Wayne Macauley’s Read more
Jay Griffiths on forests of the mind.
21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels, some more successfully than others.
So be straight and white and male and old, maybe grow a big bushy beard.
Take a ride on the world’s largest floating bookstore. (Question: do you have to pay tax in international waters?)
The 10 most-mentioned songs in books.
English is Not Easy: a beautiful and quirky illustrated guide to the English language.
However, one increasingly pressing question is being asked by today’s twitterati: is this brevity, which has long been practiced—and which Shakespeare famously argues is the soul of wit—now being imposed upon writers by Twitter? Read more
Cory Doctorow argues that giving book buyers the chance to pay what they think is right works.
It’s so easy to mock Blockhead—misreading, misquoting, just plain misunderstanding, but passionately exclaiming his complaint all the same. The novels of F.
Want to be a writer? New research suggests it would help if you have literary parents.
