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Granta

For years, Granta has had some amazing employees (like Matt Weiland) and published some interesting things, but with the recent hiring of both John Freeman and Emily Cook for the American office, the magazine has quickly come back onto my radar . . . And in addition to hiring good literary folk, Granta‘s online ...

PW's 50 under 40

One of the interesting points from Karl Pohrt’s speech is his allusion to the difficulties of getting young people into the book business. As everyone probably knows, working in the book business (as a bookseller, reviewer, mid-list author, editor, etc.) isn’t quite as lucrative as, say, investment banking. ...

A Public Space, Issue 4

Thanks to Milkweed’s Emily Cook (currently subbing for Jessa over at Bookslut) for pointing out that excerpts from the forthcoming issue of A Public Space are now available online. A Public Space continues to impress with pieces in the new issue from William T. Vollmann, Samantha Hunt, Bernadette Mayer, and a Letter ...