For a £25,000 Fee, Jeffrey Archer Is Still Extremely Quotable

For a £25,000 Fee, Jeffrey Archer Is Still Extremely Quotable UK author Lord Jeffrey Archer, still combative and unapologetic, believes bookstores are doomed, but is happy to continue cranking out bestsellers — as ebooks.

Can Distance, Dislocation Aid Novelists? Lebanon's Rabih Alameddine Says "Yes" The Lebanese-American novelist Rabih Alameddine discusses the need to both belong to and be estranged from a culture in order to be able to effectively evoke it in literature.

More News from PP: 80 Years Later, Orwell’s Burmese Days Wins Award in Burma The Burmese Ministry of Information announced that a new translation of Orwell’s 1934 novel, Burmese Days, won the National Literary Award’s informative literature award.

From the Archives: On Publishing Punditry and Trying to Hit a Moving Target UK consultant Kelvin Smith, author of The Publishing Business, fears publishers have lost perspective and their sense of mission, but believes there’s hope.