What I've Been Reading

Literati, designing covers, Moleskine, disappearing critics, Printer's Row, Heartland

I have gathered quite a large clipping file since the last time I’ve done a “What I’ve Been Reading” post, so I’m breaking it into two separate posts (the next one will focus on the fascinating and maddening conversations over copyright, the Internet Archive, and AI).

PUBLISHING RELATED

—What happens to criticism when there is no longer any infrastructure to train young critics? (“ without younger scholars moving up through the ranks—inheriting skills of the practice; and then, in inheriting these skills, transforming them—the discipline itself ceases to exist.”)

—Does publishing have a nonfiction problem? (Ann Kjellberg:“In an environment oriented toward mega-sellers, the old model for producing researched nonfiction