From the award-winning screenwriter and director of cult classic Bull Durham, the extremely entertaining behind-the-scenes story of the making of the film, and an insightful primer on the art and business of moviemaking. Bull Durham, the breakthrough 1988 film about a minor league baseball team, is widely revered as the ... more >
WRITING ON THE WALL: DISAPPEARED BOOKSELLERS AND FREE EXPRESSION IN HONG KONG – PEN America has weighed in on the relationship between China and Hong Kong publishing, and in particular the recent case of the disappearing booksellers. The report “examines the wide-reaching impact for Hong Kong as an international publishing center ... more >
New York’s Used Book Stores Are Having a Moment – Used bookstores in New York City are having a lot of success right now, surprising even those who own them. The costs to establish a store can be relatively low (especially if owners offer store credit rather than outright buying books ... more >
Mom Launches War Against Bestselling Book About Race, Science -Another day, another attack on a book. This time it’s Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken without permission, and used in myriad scientific experiments, leading to momentous discoveries like the polio vaccine, cloning, and assisting ... more >
Relive the Battle of Waterloo With These Astonishing Portraits of War Reenactors – Photographer Sam Faulkner’s new book, Unseen Waterloo: The Conflict Revisited, uses war re-enactors to give people a chance to see beyond Napoleon and Wellington to the actual soldiers who fought in the battle. This interview with Faulkner offers ... more >
A Year Later, #WeNeedDiverseBooks Has Left Its Mark On BookCon – So compared to last year, the organizers of BEA feel like they’ve come a long way, with the help of the #weneeddiversebooks campaign. The international element of this year’s event may have been part of that, too. You can ... more >