Edith Wharton's home, The Mount, in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, is facing foreclosure. Wharton built the home according to her own exacting standards. It was completed in 1902. After the author's death, the house passed through several owners before it was acquired by a foundation, also known as "The Mount", which undertook a … Continue reading Can This House Be Saved?
Author: Anders
Coffee to Go
Minneapolis' venerable Coffee House Press is picking up stakes and moving to Northeast's equally venerable Grain Belt Building. Plans are in the works for an open house in October. (Details of the move are in Publishers Weekly.)--David E
Calling All Cars!
A fight broke out at a recent reading by James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces. According to the New York Post, six "hooligans" came to the event at Los Angeles' Whiskey-a-Go-Go expecting to hear a heavy metal band and started to tear the place up when they found only Frey, reading from his … Continue reading Calling All Cars!
Musings from Magers and Quinn 