After two years of declines, unit sales inched up last year.| PublishersWeekly.com
Recently I hung out for a few hours with one of my readers: Arjun. This man, Arjun, is a twenty-three year old engineer who reads three literary newsletters: Woman of Letters, The Republic of Letters and The Metropolitan Review .| www.woman-of-letters.com
on poptimism and literary snobs ✦ and why taste is cultivated through love, not education| www.personalcanon.com
One of the hot books of 2014 was a novel by Jenny Offill called Dept of Speculation. This was one of those wikipedia realism books that interspersed little factoids (in Offill’s book the facts were usually about animals or science) with short, descriptive passages about the life of the unnamed writer-protagonist—a mother who felt somewhat stifled and frustrated.| www.woman-of-letters.com
On Gender in Contemporary Fiction| www.metropolitanreview.org
For first-time writers, it’s harder than ever to break out. That poses an existential crisis for publishing—and disturbing limits on your access to exciting new voices.| Esquire