Some of you have met Eli Stein before; he’s written Litkicks articles about P. G. Wodehouse and Al Jaffee, and he’s my father. He’s also a cartoonist with a body of published work dating back to the 1950s. If you’ve read a lot of the Wall Street Journal or … Read the rest
Amiri Baraka, a seminal Beat poet, angry playwright, revolutionary activist and scrappy indie publisher from Newark, New Jersey has died. The Allen Ginsberg Project blog has the scoop. Here’s a Litkicks article about Amiri Baraka by Jamelah Earle from 2003.
Please feel free to share your memories or personal encounters … Read the rest
Legendary book editor and publisher Andre Schiffrin died last weekend at the age of 78. Years ago, I read his memoir/broadside The Business of Books
A surprise announcement that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is buying the Washington Post has signaled the end of a distinctive era in family publishing. The Washington Post has been owned by three generations of a single family since Eugene Meyer bought it in 1933. The Post was then only one … Read the rest
(Here’s Toro!, who runs a book cover design website and has designed posters for FOX and HBO and covers for J C Sum and John Kemmerly, and shares here some of the lesser-known challenges and tribulations of his career. — Levi)
The cover: a one-page ad forever bound to … Read the rest
All this spring and summer, we’ll be hovering over the 20th anniversary of the World Wide Web’s breakthrough into mass popularity. This week presents another possible “birthday” date for the WWW craze: it was on April 30, 1993 that CERN announced its intention to fully share its homegrown HTML and … Read the rest
Because the enigmatic South African novelist J. M. Coetzee’s first novel Dusklands is out of print everywhere I’ve looked, I always figured the book must have been a weak start to a great career.
Dusklands was published in 1974, years before Coetzee started hitting his powerful stride with The Life … Read the rest
Nobody’s exactly sure when Mosaic, the first popular web browser, was released. Wikipedia cites April 22, 1993 as the date of the 1.0 release, but other sources place the 1.0 date in November 1993. Either way, this software release changed the world.
It’s not surprising that the release … Read the rest
Nate Thayer, a well-respected journalist, has published a blog post roasting the Atlantic for asking him to provide a summary of a recent article for the Atlantic website for free. He didn’t like that idea very much.
… Read the restI am a professional journalist who has made my living by writing for
