This week’s edition of Coffee and Markets, has Pejman Yousefzadeh and I talking with Keith Urbahn, former chief of staff to Donald Rumsfeld, to discuss his new PR firm Javelin, which is involved in book publishing from a right-of-center perspective. We discussed the relationship between traditional publishers and the conservative movement, …
Many love to talk about tolerance and discussion but someone writes an article they disagree with on a subject near and dear to their heart and they react as if civilization itself is at risk (social media over-reaction, weird I know).
A Q&A with young adult author Richard Lewis touching on his books, writing, publishing, surfing and more.
In this episode of the Penguin’s The Literary Life Sigrid Nunez, author of Salvation City, discusses where she finds inspiration when she’s …
Today, Penguin Group launched a new monthly radio series called The Literary Life. Completely written, produced, and hosted by Penguin employees featuring …
J. Mark Betrand ruminates on the End of the Book debate. I particularly liked this passage: Book is a shifty word, denoting …
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Hearing that the Amazon Kindle had been compared to an eight-track player Alan Kaufman decided he …
Some of us just like reading books and any technology that makes that easier or improves the process is going to be popular.
I know Amazon isn’t real popular right about now (if it was ever popular with the literary crowd) and the story I …
I hope this means more books available for Kindle and available on the publication date. Â I seem to have looked at a …