‘You may want to marry my husband’ Chicago essayist dead at 51 – I am happy to see such robust coverage of Rosenthal’s death, if only because it will introduce even more readers to her work and continue to build her legacy. Rosenthal’s recent NYT Modern Love column likely introduced more readers ... more >
Escape from Stalag $7: Why Amazon’s Pricing Box Is Bad for Indies – Rich Chapman’s essay on Amazon’s pricing strategies and what he refers to as the AAAG’s (Aggregated Amazon Ankle Grabbers) is both amusing (the questions he asks of the AAAG’s at their own blogs) and interesting (the reasons ... more >
Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Who Gave Voice To Latin America, Dies – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, and innovator of the style known as magical realism, is dead at 87. Garcia ... more >