Our lives our literature, part 2

Publishers are businesses and so need to make money. Nobody disagrees with this. As Dan D’Addario said in Salon  last year,  “Publishing is not a charitable endeavor.” Publishers choose book manuscripts to publish and market to a public that it hopes will buy, so the...

Waldman on the Supreme Court right now

Ari Ezra Waldman has put up a post on Towleroad discussing what’s happening at the Supreme Court right now (3:35 pm, September 29, 2014). They’re meeting for the first time since June to consider petitions for certiorari. Seven of these petitions concern marriage...