As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.