by Jas Faulkner Reverend Billy and his partner, Savitri, are no strangers to being approached by police officers and security personnel. They have seen…
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News & Opinions
Our writers have been around books for a long time and are never shy to share their opinions…
Tea (and Books!) For Two, Three, Four, Five…
by Jas Faulkner I joined my first book club in the mid-eighties. We were a loosely organized group of a dozen or so students…
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Agent Peter Strauss on the Man Booker Prize Rule Changes
The controversy over the Man Booker rumbles on. Agent Peter Straus argues the rule changes will create surprising submission scenarios and calls on the…
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Tricks and Treats
by Jas Faulkner If you’re reading this not long after it was written (October 31st, 2013) you have probably seen the many reports about…
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Marketing Books to Boys
One of the members of a children’s literature listserv send a query to the group. She explained that she was writing historical fiction and…
Read MoreBuilding Upon the Foundations
Across Time and Space… “No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part…
Read MoreWhat will the word “book” mean to future generations?
by Jas Faulkner It might seem like a needless bit of sophistry to contemplate the evolution of the definition of “book.” We all know…
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Is Borrowing Books a Form of Stealing?
Books don’t come with the piracy warnings that appear at the start of movies, enforcing the message that they are to be bought…
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