Michael Washburn

6 days ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Michael Washburn

Jude Cook’s decision to launch Conduit Books, a U.K.-based publishing venture with an explicit focus on male authors, has set off a torrent of online snark from  commenters who cannot fathom why anyone would take the interests and concerns of men these days seriously, given the unfinished task of tearing down structures of power and privilege. Admittedly, not all the reactions have been hostile.

6 days ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Michael Washburn

A new publishing house wants to focus on male authors

3 weeks ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Neal Pollack |William Schwartz |Michael Washburn

Animated Netflix show tries to be ‘Rick and Morty’ but ends up at sub-‘Family Guy’ levels

4 weeks ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Carlos Flores |Michael Washburn

The last Titan of the Latin American literary boom has fallen

1 month ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Michael Washburn

Novelists of our time, looking for subject matter, might train their sights on the legal, political, financial, and cultural structures that insulate a small number of the fortunate from the consequences of misdeeds. But anyone who sets out to write a book about it all will need to ask how the new work could in any way improve upon a novel published a hundred years ago, on April 10, 1925: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.