What Amazon’s Top 10 Bestsellers of 2016 Say about Publishing
Jonathan Smith // Blog Writer Amazon, one of the largest booksellers in the world, publishes a list of its top 100 bestsellers each year. Though there are still two months…
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The Risks of Publishing
Victoria Kiarsis // Blog Writer City on Fire was released in October of 2015—you’ve probably heard of it, but you probably haven’t read it. In one year Garth Risk…
Authors Behind the Page: The Boston Book Festival
Felicia Gullotta // Blog Writer It’s a crisp autumn morning on October 15; the sun is hanging lazily in the sky, as reluctant to move as the many Bostonians still…
Review of The Hidden Letters of Velta B. by Gina Ochsner
Felicia Gullotta // Blog Writer If you were an ailing mother trying to tell your son his life’s story, where would you begin? Would you begin with his birth? Maybe…
Bob Dylan Should Not Have Won the Nobel Prize for Literature
Mary Baker // Special Guest Writer I am here to give what is undoubtedly an unpopular opinion. It’s pretty clearly stated in the title, but just for emphasis: everyone’s…
James Patterson and the State of Fiction
Christina Bagni // Blog Writer Stephen King, who sees himself as “the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries,” once called James Patterson “a terrible writer, but very successful.”…