paper trail

Nov 21, 2011 @ 4:00:00 am

One of Julian Montague’s recent book cover selections.

Europeans are slow to jump on the e-reader bandwagon.

Norway’s crime writers consider how their attitudes towards crime fiction have changed in the wake of the Oslo massacre.

What would you read in an Occupy Wall Street reading group? We’re taking suggestions on our twitter feed with the hash-tag, #owsbookclub.

Tonight at the New York Public Library, Joan Didion talks to author Sloane Crosley about Didion’s latest memoir, Blue Nights.

Designer Julian Montague’s book cover a day website should be your new go-to procrastination page.

A website called Fiction Circus is leaning on YouTube to create a “fiction” category for its videos. From their site: “You will note that while Google has made serious, extremely well-organized attempts to purchase and control all out-of-print literature and create a massive online digital library, they have not bothered to create a ‘literature’ category for YouTube, revealing once again that they would be terrible shepherds for the human inheritance of written knowledge.”