Category: Books

  • Rakoff Revisited

    Last week I saw Sarah Vowell on Stephen Colbert, there to publicize Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel the posthumous book by the brilliantly acidic, but always self-aware David Rakoff. I interviewed Rakoff for The Montreal Mirror in 2010. He was here to visit the city of his birth, and to talk about Half…

  • New York Times to partner with Byliner and Vook

    Some very interesting news yesterday from Digital Book World.  The New York Times is partnering with Byliner and Vook to produce a series of e-books. I first heard about Byliner about a year an half ago when I spent a month at the Banff Centre, hanging out with Robert Boynton, director of NYU’s literary reportage…