The recent shuttering of the University of Missouri Press raises an important question for all academic publishers: is the cost of peer review to blame?
Publish or Perish, But Please Don’t Peer Review
Indie Bookstores Charge for Readings
A number of indie book stores, squeezed by patrons using their shelves only for research into later online purchases, are starting to charge admission for in-store readings and events, the New York Times reports.
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Dyer on Unusual Histories
Ahead of the forthcoming release of Zona, Geoff Dyer rounds up five unusual histories for The Browser.
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No Word on What He Thought of Richard Simmons
In a review of My 1980s & Other Essays, Adam Kirsch reveals that Wayne Koestenbaum once compared a verse from a Robert Lowell poem to Buns of Steel. (Yes, that Buns of Steel.)
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Colbert 2012
Fresh on the heels of his gargantuan New York Times Magazine profile, as well as the announcement that he's led Jon Huntsman Jr. in the South Carolina polls, political prankster Stephen Colbert has decided to run for "president of the United States of South Carolina." This, of course, is not the first time he's pulled this stunt, but it is the first time he's done it with this much funding. All of this raises the question of whether this is political satire or "School House Rock on Steroids." But don't get too excited. Apparently folks from the Palmetto State will not actually be able to vote for him.
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Scariest Comic Books
All October long, Comic Book Resources is featuring the scariest comic books of all-time, as suggested by readers. Here is an archive of all the comics featured so far.
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