I’m at Frankfurt Book Fair this year because I was invited to participate in a digital-publishing experiment called Sprint Beyond the Book. The goal is to write and publish a book in seventy-two hours on the floor of the show, with the help...
All the changes happening in publishing were encapsulated in a single 2-hour panel conversation on self-publishing, with nine people from a wide cross-section of the publishing community.
I like stories that allow me to linger, to circle back, to return to a set of words, an image, a song I can’t get out of my mind. In writing “Voice and Hammer,” it was the 1959 broadcast of Tonight With Belafonte, and the chain-gang songs...
