“The final victory of the censor”: What is at stake in the Salman Rushdie assault
"This is the final victory of the censor: when people cease to be able to imagine a non-censorious society."
Early reports indicate Salman Rushdie attacked in New York
The author, who spent years in the 1980s and ’90s in hiding from an Iranian death sentence, was preparing to give a speech when he was assaulted.
Albert Woodfox, author and activist who spent more than four decades in solitary confinement, dies at 75
On his release, Woodfox, who staunchly maintained his innocence in the murder he was accused of, dedicated himself to educating others about systemic racism.
Casey Plett will be everywhere in fall 2022 and spring 2023
Plett's own debut collection of short fiction, A Safe Girl to Love, is being reissued by her current publisher, Vancouver's Arsenal Pulp Press.
Publishers as “angels” and other weird assertions from Markus Dohle cap a busy week at DoJ v. PRH antitrust trial
Dohle suggested on the stand that publishers resembled the "Silicon Valley of media" and compared their work to that of angel investors in business.
“A high and beautiful wave”: Revisiting the savage journey of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas fifty years later
Thompson's wild, violent, funny, anarchic book chronicles a motorcycle derby, an extended drug binge, and – most significantly – the corrosion of the American Dream.
Stephen King and Jonathan Karp square off in the early days of the DoJ/PRH/S&S antitrust suit
"When I started in this business, there were literally hundreds of imprints, and some of them were run by people with extremely idiosyncratic tastes, one might say."
Controversial journalist and confessed “sex radical” Gerald Hannon’s memoir provides an overview of LGBTQ+ history over the past four decades
One need not agree with everything the author writes or believes in order to recognize the importance of his memoir as a document of the LGBTQ+ community's development in Canada.
In How to Read Now, Elaine Castillo argues for expanding and interrogating unquestioned interpretive approaches toward art and literature
"White supremacy makes for terrible readers," Castillo writes in this collection of provocative and confrontational essays.
In Bad City, journalist Paul Pringle recounts institutional resistance to investigative reporting – from inside his own newsroom
Pringle's book tells the story of a dean at USC who was found in a hotel room with a twenty-one-year-old woman who had overdosed on illegal drugs.