While I focus on things other than blogging this month, I’m running a series on independent bookstores. Below Michael Kennedy, a writer and former journalist living in Tokyo, remembers Kenny’s Bookshop of Galway, Ireland, which closed its doors in 2005 to sell exclusively online. Since my connection to Ireland is one generation removed, I have returned to County Mayo several . . .
Doris Lessing, on her new SF novel, The Cleft: “[W]hat a pity it couldn’t have … James Thurber cartoons to illustrate it.”
Scrivener: amazing new tool to help you finish your novel, or amazing new stalling tactic? Either way, sign me up. (See also.)
The NY Times‘ real estate ad circular section doesn’t just trumpet luxury amidst a subprime meltdown. It may also be sugar-coating sales stats.
While I focus on things other than blogging this month, I’m running a series on independent bookstores. Below Jim Hanas recalls working at Memphis, Tennessee’s landmark Burke’s Book Store, which was founded in 1875 and doubles as a publisher of local-interest titles. The shop nearly went out of business last year but has since relocated to a different part of . . .