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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleBill 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...
View ArticleTa-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...
View ArticleIs the Penguin Random merger good for indie publishers?
In England, at least, some say yes.
View ArticleHow 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.”
View ArticleCopyediting and life
From Granta--one of the best personal testaments I've ever read about living with the mind of an editor.
View ArticleLadies 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...
View ArticleJali 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...
View ArticleLaying 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleAnjali 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...
View ArticleInauguration 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...
View ArticleGil 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...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleA brief digression on winter
A recent transplant to Chicago makes his peace with February in the Paris Review.
View ArticleFreeman 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...
View ArticleMediterranean 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...
View ArticleSnowed 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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