With readers on a reverse migration to print, the “e-book terror has kind of subsided” for bookstores and publishers.

Source: The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far From Dead – The New York Times

Asbury is best remembered for “Gangs of New York,” but in his detective stories he swings wildly between gory horror story and step-by-step procedural.

Source: The Forgotten Crime Novels of Herbert Asbury – The New Yorker

Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality [Don Watkins, Yaron Brook] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.

Source: Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality: Don Watkins, Yaron Brook: 9781250084446: Amazon.com: Books

Source: Who wrote the ‘Odyssey’? | TLS

When True Detective aired last year on HBO it was squarely in the familiar trope of two guys getting to know each other on the job, doing some squabbling, some drinking, and having each other’s back. At the end there is a long predictable rescue of one by the other. And yet it seemed entirely original. This is due to several elements that are all in perfect sync with one another.

Source: Sympathy for the Devil by Lorrie Moore | The New York Review of Books

So, neither with a bang nor a whimper, the world ends with the remains of Western Civilization, now unlettered for many reasons, increasingly under-read, alone by choice, and still self-compelled to communicate… (click the link below to view the full essay by Stephen Masty)

Source: When Books Die, All at Once – The Imaginative Conservative

Rumors of their impending death have been greatly exaggerated

Source: 4 reasons why independent bookstores are thriving