I’m taking a short vacation, in this posting from criticizing any of the absurdities in the world of publishing—as in my last critique of th...

Surprised and appalled that there was no Pulitzer Prize for Fiction awarded this year, I sent Sig Gissler, a professor at Columbia’s School ...

It’s been three months since my last “monthly” blog posting. So much to do and so little time to do it all. The time has been spent, instead...

One of the great pleasures in publishing is discovering terrific writers. One of the frustrations is not being able to find an audience that...

On November 8, 2010, I wrote a blog entitled TWO AWARDS YOU CAN’T BELIEVE IN, citing the Whiting Writers Award’s and the Awards given by the...

Just as I exprienced blog fatigue, Christine Sheehan, our summer intern, aided by Cathy Suter, our managing editor (replacing Rania Haditirt...

A few years back, Charles McGrath, writing in The New York Times Book Review , said that Elmore Leonard deserved a Nobel Prize for Literatur...