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Lawrence Norfolk on writing about food

Longtime Friend of Agate Lawrence Norfolk has just published another characteristically brilliant novel, called John Saturnall's Feast, his first in twelve years. Norfolk has traveled a somewhat fitful...

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The realities of 2012 ebook technology

If this sort of thing can happen to the world's most high-profile writer, with her very high-profile new book, it can happen to any author, any book, any publisher. In fact, I can tell you it is...

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The future of cookbooks?

So, cookbooks are dying. But they are most likely going to survive the deaths of every other sort of book, this author tells us. But die they will! And the sun will eventually burn out, too. Let's...

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Bill Gates, in his own words

We recently asked Lisa Rogak, the editor of the new Agate B2 release Impatient Optimist: Bill Gates In His Own Words, a few questions about Gates and what went into creating this new book, which is...

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on magazines and diversity

For some time I've been meaning to link to this typically excellent post by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a young(er) black journalist whose work I've admired for years now, most of which I've encountered in that...

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Is the Penguin Random merger good for indie publishers?

In England, at least, some say yes.

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How the sausage is made, latest installment

At the release party for Kate Moss's new book, the venerable supermodel modestly revealed the truth of her role in the book's creation: “Well, I didn’t actually have to write anything.”

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Copyediting and life

From Granta--one of the best personal testaments I've ever read about living with the mind of an editor.

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Ladies and gentlemen--Eric Felten!

Making an encore performance in last week's Wall Street Journal was our favorite chronicler of cocktail culture, whose How's Your Drink? was Agate Surrey's first serious foray into publishing cocktail...

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Jali Becker on opinion, race, guns, politics, and books

David Sirota over at Salon.com recently addressed the controversy Bob Costas caused when he spoke out about gun control during the halftime of an NFL game. Costas was responding to the tragic...

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Laying low

So apparently most of the rest of the nearby states to the south and east of us are being pummelled with snow, and we may be due for a bit ourselves. It's going to be pretty quiet around here until...

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The Wall Street Journal on the ebooks slowdown

An interesting essay by digital media pundit Nicholas Carr on the slowing pace of ebook adoption--one I admit to favoring because it pretty much tracks my own ideas about the ultimate place of the...

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Anjali Becker on Notre Dame and Campus Sex Assaults

As Salon's Irin Carmon points out, Notre Dame already has a woman-and-football-players problem. It's just not the problem that people are talking about right now. In September 2010, St. Mary's College...

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Inauguration Flashback: Ava DuVernay on Barack and Michelle Obama

Today, President Barack Obama delivered his second inaugural address. To commemorate the event, Agate would like to take you back four years to the President's historic first inauguration. The...

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Gil Robertson's new Where Did Our Love Go

This month, Agate Bolden is pleased to announce its newest book from Gil L. Robertson IV. Where Did Our Love Go: Love and Relationships in the African-American Community, is the third anthology Gil has...

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More from The New Old Bar

Here's a terrific little video from The Chicagoist of Steve McDonagh talking cocktails. Working with Steve and his partner, Dan Smith, of Hearty Boys fame, has also been terrific--and the below will...

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A brief digression on winter

A recent transplant to Chicago makes his peace with February in the Paris Review.

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Freeman wins BCALA best fiction award

Congratulations are due Leonard Pitts, Jr., whose novel Freeman was just named the winner of the fiction category of the 2013 BCALA Literary Awards, given by the Black Caucus of the American Library...

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Mediterranean diet, heart disease, and The Puglian Cookbook

All over today's news: more evidence that the "Mediterranean diet" can have powerful positive effects on heart health. Seems like a great opportunity to remind everyone of The Puglian Cookbook by...

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Snowed out

Agate has closed its office for the rest of today, February 26--if you need to reach us, best to email.

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