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Henry Regnery, the Dissident Publisher October 03, 2024
Rare indeed is the publisher so possessed of acumen, audacity, and a sense of mission that he is willing, even eager, to flout the temper of the times. Such an intrepid popularizer was Henry Regnery, publisher of two of the most influential conservat...
Only Disconnect September 19, 2024
The women are in their early thirties or late twenties. Both remain nameless. Their parents have died in separate car accidents. They live alone—a small apartment in Tel Aviv, a larger one bedroom in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. One has a brother who sends...
Is AI the Bitter End of Book Publishing? July 10, 2024
“I get hung up on the word scraping,” author R.O. Kwon says. “It sounds quite violent.” Last September, when Kwon learned that her first novel, The Incendiaries, was part of the Books3 dataset that some generative AI models were trained on at the tim...
“Big Fiction” — Is the Author Hive-Mind or Queen Bee? July 01, 2024
I picked up a copy of Jason Epstein’s Book Business in 200i, the year it was published. Epstein, former editorial director of Random House and founder of the Library of America, opens with: “Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, dece...
