Published: Oct. 21, 2016, 6:41 p.m.
Take a crash course in Indie Publishing 101 with the founders of Restless Books; hear Scholar senior editor Bruce Falconer explain how John le Carré burned the bridge between genre and literary fiction; and learn from Witold Rybczynski how an iconic modern chair was inspired by an ant.
Mentioned in this episode:• Bruce Falconer’s review of
The Pigeon Tunnel• Our list of
13 “Spooktacular” Books and Michael Dirda’s attempt to out-scare us with
a list of his own• An excerpt from
How to Travel Without Seeing by Andrés Neuman, published by Restless Books, which offers a glimpse inside the surreal operations of Venezuela’s book industry• An
NPR segment on Witold Rybczynski’s new book about chairs,
Now I Sit Me Down, including illustrations of the medieval backstool
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