Before his sudden death while on a reporting trip in Syria yesterday, New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid was scheduled to return to the US for a twenty-city book tour to promote his memoir, House of Stone, due out March 27. Read More
“Seems Glenn Beck and I chose the same day to announce our imprints. OK, Beck–it is ON,” wrote Eamon Dolan on Twitter yesterday, when news broke that Glenn Beck will be expanding his empire of wild-eyed zealotry with Mercury Ink, a new publishing imprint with Simon & Schuster. Mr. Dolan, for his part, announced his Read More
New York’s skyline tells the story of the city, its towers etched clear against the clouds like letters on a pale page, or so said Henry James in his elegant 1906 essay “New York Revisited.” The city’s skyscrapers, James observed, are plain planks of stone, ornamented only by their own lights, “each light having a Read More
