WordsWorth Books files Chapter 11
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WordsWorth Books, a Harvard Square institution for 29 years, yesterday filed for bankruptcy protection, as its owners seek a buyer or investor to help the independent bookseller compete with giant rivals like Amazon.com.
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When Donald Trump writes his next book, he&#39;ll have plenty of expertise in how to write Chapter 11. Trump Hotels &amp; Casino Resorts, the company that controls the real estate mogul&#39;s casinos, said Thursday that
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Tycho:  Despite what the Mr. Period comics might imply, I think of grammar as somewhat tyrannical, and believe that an obsession with the mechanical perfection of language is at odds with actual communication.  At the same time, I know (generally) how things should be arranged, and so non-standard uses deliver naughty thrills.  There are floating syllables in the recent Twisp & Catsby thing that can only be resolved by a very specific reading, and they project from the phrases in a suggestive way.  I even like trade names:  words that evoke fierce, yet sensitive gladiators or spry androids.
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V. S. Naipaul (Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/Camera Press) A quick hike through the Sunday (and a few non-Sunday) book review sections. The Times of London William Dalrymple reads V.S. Naipaulâs new book of essays, â A Writerâs People: A Way of Looking and Feeling,â and calls it âa grand old manâs book: meandering, ponderous and pedantic, full of narcissism [...].
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The author and two associates are accused of violating copyright laws.
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Publishers of the new Harry Potter novel have been trying to suppress websites featuring extracts apparently taken from the book. By Esther Addley.
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By Robert Jones Parry  More and more com
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By Michael Alison Chandler, Washington Post Staff Writer  Eleventh-grader Farhiya Hosh had her textbook open yesterday to Section Four, displaying a picture of 19th-century politician John C. Calhoun, in preparation for a test.
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A book-distribution company owned by Lanham-based Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group has stepped in with an eleventh-hour bid to take over a larger competitor.
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1. "London Bridges" by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
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1. "T is for Trespass" by Sue Grafton
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Nearly 6,000 books, photographs and letters by and about H.L. Mencken have been acquired by Johns Hopkins University from the estate of an accountant with a penchant for the curmudgeonly journalist known as the Sage of Baltimore.
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Card-catalog classifications hardly seem the subject of trans-Atlantic imbroglios, but the Library of Congress recently settled one when it agreed to reinstate a past policy of classifying works by Scottish authors under the heading âScottish literature.â Early last year the library started classifying about 600 titles by Scottish writers as âEnglish literature,â with subheadings like âScottish authorsâ or âScottish poets.â That offended the National Library of Scotland, which complained, enlisting the support of an American congressman, Mike McIntyre, Democrat of North Carolina. Early this month, the librarian of Congress, James H. Billington, wrote to the National Library of Scotland and the British Library, informing them that the Scots would get their own catalog distinction. As of now the Library of Congress is still classifying the works of Irish and Welsh writers under subcategories of English literature, but a spokesman, Matt Raymond, said the library has yet to receive any complaints.
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(Corrects in third-to-last paragraph title and company of Sameer Mithal)  By Andrew Wallenstein
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A poem by one of America's best-loved poets, Robert Frost, has been discovered 88 years after it was handwritten in the front of a book and will be published next week.
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Description: Author Susan Sontag died Tuesday in Manhattan, after a long struggle with cancer. Sontag was the author of many essays and 17 widely translated books.
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David Weinberger's introduces an excerpt from his recently published book, Everything Is Miscellaneous.