I am done with prolific novelist Robert B. Parker. No longer will I waste my time with another one of his putrid Spenser novels. As a publisher and admirer of literary fiction, I vow to retire from the abhorrent habit and guilty pleasure of intermittently reading a Robert B. Parker book in the summertime. He [...]
KENSINGTON, MD — Leave it to me for waiting a good four months before reacting to this news. Sometimes, as Bob Dylan warbles, “it takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry,” and it takes way too much time for startling industry news to penetrate this thick skull of mine and shatter [...]
KENSINGTON, MD — In honor of what would have been Charles Bukowski’s 90th birthday, and in recognition of our publishing house’s first set of advance review copies (ARCs)—delivered on Hank’s birthday, no less—I’m having a scotch and making a toast or three:
BRANT BEACH, N.J. — When people ask me what I do for a living and I answer, “publish books,” the sensible follow-up question I often get is “what kind of books?”. It’s here I usually stumble for my best choice of answers. If I simply say, “fiction,” it pushes me down the rabbit hole of [...]
When: September 19-24, 2010
Where: Northern Virginia, D.C., and Maryland
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