• 'No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 100 on March 24. At nearly five score, there is much poetic breath left in the famed poet's literary lungs. The streams of his consciousness pour out in his latest book, a novel titled Little Boy, which Doubleday will publish March 19.

The other day Will Self unburdened himself on the state of fiction with crushing hauteur. ‘What's now regarded as serious literature would, ten or 20 years ago, have been regarded as young adult fiction... in terms of literary history, it does seem a bit of a regression.

Audiobooks were a hot topic at last year's London Book Fair, and the interest hasn't cooled. On the opening morning of the 2019 London Book Fair, a panel of publishers, moderated by the Audio Publishers Association's Michele Cobb, charted the audiobook's rapid rise, and told a standing room only...

'No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a...

Last October here at Publishing Perspectives, I wrote about starting my new publishing house-actually more like a publishing room - Mensch Publishing.