The Yeti’s Back
Pun titles for the win
In which Jami Attenberg (whose forthcoming The Middlesteins made it to our big 2012 second half books preview) discusses the outright mockery of Jeffrey Eugenides's pseudo-famous vest in the web advertising campaign (which--full disclosure--also ran on The Millions) for Jennifer Weiner's The Next Best Thing: "Hit Me with Your Vest Shot."
Social Graces
Some people go by alphabet, others by subject, and still others arrange their books as they "would seat guests at a dinner party."
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Viva La Vida
“We break down thirty-nine literary journals and well-respected periodicals, tallying genre, book reviewers, books reviewed, and journalistic bylines to offer an accurate assessment of the publishing world.” This year's VIDA Count is out.
Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
Following in the footsteps of the recent Pride, Prejudice and Zombies, the Coen Brothers' cult movie The Big Lebowski has received the Shakespeare treatment.
Smile More
Recommended (Frustrating) Reading: "Men Explain Submissions To Me," an eye-opening new piece from Sarah Blake at The Rumpus.
Pythonated
We’ve published a fair number of pieces about the import of book covers. You may have read one of our US-UK book cover battles. Over at The Awl, Amanda Pickering takes a look at one of the stranger aspects of book design: the animals that appear on the covers of programming books.