Posts Tagged ‘Amazon.com’
June 6, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
TAGS Amazon.com, Avalon books, book news, F. Scott Fitzgerald, fashion, news, On the Shelf, roundup, The Great Gatsby, writers
February 8, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
Zora Neale Hurston, 1938. Photographer: Carl Van Vechten.
A cultural news roundup.
RIP, John Christopher.
Brighten your day! The world’s most beautiful bookstores.
Book (review) clubs.
The Rings of Saturn, coming to a theater near you.
Their Eyes Were Watching God, coming to a radio near you.
Amazon.com, coming to a store near you?
R. Crumb (among others) turns the Western canon into graphic novels.
David Foster Wallace’s keeper shelf.
Mona Lisa’s double.
Pirates of Lexicon Valley.
Bloomsbury Group antics: expensive.
“If you come, so what? If you don’t come, so what? Will Turkey lose prestige?” Auster v. Erdogan.
The museum of human gullibility.
“12 Globe-Shaped Foods. Top 10 Famous Buses. 40 Culturally Relevant Birds. 13 High-Tech Steampunk USB Flash Drives.” Why we like lists.
TAGS Amazon.com, bookstores, David Foster Wallace, John Christopher, Mona Lisa, paul auster, R. Crumb, The Rings of Saturn, their eyes were watching god, WG Sebald, Zora Neale Hurston
December 7, 2011 | by Sadie Stein
Raymond Chandler.
A cultural news roundup.
Bad sex.
Bad numbers.
Good books.
Children’s books.
A visit to St. Mark’s.
“Confessions of a Plagiarist.”
Unrest at the Eliot Prizes.
Upheaval at the NYPL.
Tensions over Civilization.
The case for porn.
The case for gossip.
“Gossip Girl has always had an especially soft spot for scribblers—and not just for fleeting appearances.”
Jane Austen?
It’s not TV, it’s ... Faulkner?
“The very nicest thing Hollywood can possibly think of to say to a writer is that he is too good to be only a writer.” —Raymond Chandler
TAGS Amazon.com, booksellers, David Guterson, HBO, Jane Austen, Joseph Epstein, Niall Ferguson, NYPL, Pankaj Mishra, pornography, Q.R. Markham, Raymond Chandler, St. Marks Books, William Faulkner
October 19, 2011 | by Sadie Stein
A page from Spalding Gray's journal. Courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center.
TAGS Amazon.com, Bram Stoker, C.S. Forester, Chekhov, Emily Post, Julian Barnes, Lauren Myracle, Man Booker Prize, National Book Award, Roz Chast, Spalding Gray, Stan Lee, The Seagull, Tintin
October 5, 2011 | by Sadie Stein
Hans Christian Andersen.
A cultural news roundup.
Odds on the Nobel?
Harry Potter takes his show on the road.
But not his e-book.
The trouble with Amazon.
Bad news for independent bookstores.
And chain bookstores.
In praise of the Farmers’ Almanac.
Hans Christian Andersen to be buried, again.
Volume 12 of Selected Works of Kim Jong-il hits the shelves.
“That American culture could bring forth so relentless a critic is perhaps one of the reasons to still think well of it.”
A visit to southeast London.
Advice for students: “To get an education, you’re probably going to have to fight against the institution that you find yourself in—no matter how prestigious it may be. (In fact, the more prestigious the school, the more you’ll probably have to push.) You can get a terrific education in America now—there are astonishing opportunities at almost every college—but the education will not be presented to you wrapped and bowed. To get it, you’ll need to struggle and strive, to be strong, and occasionally even to piss off some admirable people.”
TAGS "Christopher Lasch", Amazon.com, Bob Dylan, borders, Farmers Almanac, Hans Christian Andersen, Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling, Kim Jong-il, London, Mark Edmundson
A cultural news roundup.
