Literature - Kbin Lab

English-Language Books Are Filling Europe’s Bookstores. Mon Dieu! ( www.nytimes.com )

Publishers are complaining that people prefer to read the novels in English instead of their native tongues.

Raw Craft with Anthony Bourdain - Episode Five: Arion Press (2015) ( youtu.be )

Anthony Bourdain & The Balvenie head to San Francisco, California to meet with Andrew Hoyem, master typographer and printer of Arion Press. One of the last of its kind, Arion Press has only a handful of members on its staff, all fellow craftsmen dedicated to this age old process. Each works meticulously to create the books in...

Book Bans Are Surging in Florida. So Lauren Groff Opened a Bookstore. ( www.nytimes.com )

No one buys books ( www.elysian.press )

Not sure I like the "Netflix of books" suggestion(libraries exist!), but I thought this was interesting.

America’s Great Poet of Darkness ( hedgehogreview.com )

What Orwell Really Feared ( www.theatlantic.com )

“The Small Press World is About to Fall Apart.” On the Collapse of Small Press Distribution ( lithub.com )

Please see also: beehaw.org/post/12924678

Lily, the Immortal [6,356 words] ( www.uncannymagazine.com )

This bookshop in Fort Collins is paying people to sit down and read quietly ( coloradosun.com )

Perelandra Bookshop’s reader-in-residence commits to reading at the store for two hours per week in exchange for a small coffee and book stipend

Should Modern Newspapers Publish Poetry? ( the-artifice.com )

The Great Fiction of AI: The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction ( www.theverge.com )

Let's talk about Goodreads: Publishing obsesses over Goodreads, but does Goodreads actually sell books? ( misshelved.substack.com )

Amazon Kindle e-book updates need a public changelog ( goodereader.com )

Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books ( lithub.com )

I’m not saying that all self-help is bad. There’s always been an audience for short and snappy self-improvement books (there’s a reason why there are only 7 Habits, not 70), and that’s just fine. But I do worry about a larger phenomenon that I’ll call the bulletpointification of books and media....