Volume 256 Issue 51 12/21/2009
Why We WriteDec 21, 2009
Doxiadis, Papadimitriou, Papadatos, and Di Donna are the creators of Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth (Bloomsbury), a biography and intellectual adventure story based on the life of mathematican Bertrand Russell.
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Read "An Open Letter to the DOJ from Someone Who Actually Cares About Writers (and Readers)"
"The Social Network" writer will adapt Isaacson's biography.
The Grand Rapids, Mich. bookstore will close after five years of business.
A Spring Hill, Tenn. bookstore has upset blogger Nancy French.
Barbara Vey
While I'm visiting St. Louis, author Jeannie Lin caught a Tweet I posted about coffee at a local cafe. She contacted me and we met up for a wonderful visit....
Josie Leavitt
We are blessed with a rich and vibrant core of local authors in our town. When a customer comes to us with his or her book we do our best to herald the occasion. I'm discovering that my idea of herald...
Rose Fox
Help compile lists of Asian and Asian-American SF/F authors....
Adam Boretz
Our second feature in Publishers Weekly's Focus on Audio 2012 takes us inside a Random House Audio recording studio to see how an audiobook gets made as Marcus Samuelsson records his memoir, Yes, Chef...
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