Meet the archive moles: There’s a growing band of people digging through library stacks and second-hand bookshops in search of lost classics. I’m one of them
Reality shifting: psychological features of an emergent online daydreaming culture
Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys
We Are What We Watch: Movie Plots Predict the Personalities of Those who ‘Like’ Them
A chi assomiglia Elena Ferrante? Un profilo stilometrico aggiornato [Who Does Elena Ferrante Look Like? A Revised Stylometric Identikit]
American Psycho: An Oral History, 20 Years After Its Divisive Debut
Who is the real Dice Man? The elusive writer behind the disturbing cult novel: A search for the mysterious author of a counterculture classic led to someone else entirely. Or did it?
Of Coase and Copyrights: The Law and Economics of Literary Fan Art
"O Uommibatto": How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat
Bad romance: To cash in on Kindle Unlimited, a cabal of authors gamed Amazon’s algorithm
Kindle Unlimited Book Stuffing Scam Earns Millions and Amazon Isn’t Stopping It: Book stuffer Chance Carter is gone. But readers are still paying for books that are 90% filler.
Luis Alberto Urrea Tells a Quintessential Mexican American Story: In his novel The House of Broken Angels, Luis Alberto Urrea tells an epic tale of immigration
What is Elena Ferrante? A comparative analysis of a secretive bestselling Italian writer
goodbooks-10k: Ten thousand books, six million ratings: https://fastml.com/goodbooks-10k
Drawing Elena Ferrante’s Profile [Workshop Proceedings, Padova, 7 September 2017]
Why Are There So Many 17th Century Paintings of Monkeys Getting Drunk?
The Secret History of Holywell Street, Home to Victorian London’s Dirty Book Trade: Victorian Sexuality Is Often Considered Synonymous With Prudishness, Conjuring Images of Covered-Up Piano Legs and Dark Ankle-Length Skirts. Historian Matthew Green Uncovers a Quite Different Scene in the Sordid Story of Holywell St, 19th-Century London’s Epicentre of Erotica and Smut.
The Summer’s Most Unread Book Is… A simple index drawn from e-books shows which best sellers are going unread (we’re looking at you, Piketty)
Mr. Beaks Talks The Lincoln Lawyer, Eddie And The Cruisers and Streets Of Fire With Michael Paré!
Nordic Quack: Sweden’s bizarre tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve
The Disadvantage of a Good Reputation: Disney as a Target for Social Problems Claims
The Dubious Quick Kill, part 1⁄2: Sword wounds and the circulatory system
Piracy is progressive taxation, and other thoughts on the evolution of online distribution: Seven lessons from Tim O’Reilly’s experience as an author and publisher
Fiction, non-factuals, and the principle of minimal departure
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We Are What We Watch: Movie Plots Predict the Personalities of Those who ‘Like’ Them
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