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David Morgan

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David Morgan covers Culture, State News and Events.

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Ten Great Rock Books from 2026? A Second Look at CultureSonar's Year-End List

Ten Great Rock Books from 2026? A Second Look at CultureSonar's Year-End List

David Morgan

The Print Run Math: Why Your Book's Fate Is Decided Before Publication

The Print Run Math: Why Your Book's Fate Is Decided Before Publication

David Morgan

Partita on Stage: What Barbara Kingsolver's Chicago Humanities Festival Talk Told Readers About Her New Novel

Feature — Partita on Stage: What Barbara Kingsolver's Chicago Humanities Festival Talk Told Readers About Her New Novel

David Morgan

The Shelf Rent: How Bookshop Margins Actually Work

The Shelf Rent: How Bookshop Margins Actually Work

David Morgan

What Does a Literary Agent Actually Do?

Literary Agents: What Does a Literary Agent Actually Do?

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The Smuggled Text: How Censorship Shaped Editions Readers Actually Bought

Censored Editions — The Smuggled Text: How Censorship Shaped Editions Readers Actually Bought

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The Blurb Economy: Who Writes Jacket Praise and Why It Matters

Book Blurbs — The Blurb Economy: Who Writes Jacket Praise and Why It Matters

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Letters That Lie: How the Epistolary Novel Built Its Intimacy

Letters That Lie: How the Epistolary Novel Built Its Intimacy

David Morgan

Reading by the Minute: A Second Look at Flower Mound's Summer Reading Challenge

Arts — Reading by the Minute: A Second Look at Flower Mound's Summer Reading Challenge

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Two hardcovers and a river-worn paddle on a desk

Percival Everett's James Wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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Three plain hardcovers on a desk beside a paper ballot

How a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Actually Gets Decided

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The Original Recipe: How the New York Times Actually Builds Its Bestseller List

The Original Recipe: How the New York Times Actually Builds Its Bestseller List

David Morgan

The Ninety-Fifth Year: How a Book Actually Enters the Public Domain

The Ninety-Fifth Year: How a Book Actually Enters the Public Domain

David Morgan

Readers of different ages work among wooden tables in a research library

One Bookshelf in Common: The Library Company of Philadelphia at 295

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Open cloth-bound book with faint pencil annotations along its page margins

Writing Back: A Short History of Marginalia

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Visitors moving slowly through a quiet contemporary art biennale pavilion in Venice

Venice Biennale Opens in Minor Keys

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Museum bookshop visitors browsing stacks of large exhibition catalogues

After the Show: Exhibition Catalogues

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Young readers filming phone reaction videos beside tall stacks of paperbacks

Old Books, New Feed: How BookTok Revives the Backlist

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PEN/Faulkner Award Goes to Mahreen Sohail

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Gloved hands turning a vellum page in a manuscripts reading room

First Light: Illuminated Manuscripts

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Train carriage at dusk with passengers holding e-readers and printed books

The Digital Plateau: Why Ebook Sales Stalled

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Empty Victorian lending library interior with counters, racks and gas lamps

One Guinea a Year: How Mudie’s Circulating Library Ruled Victorian Fiction

David Morgan

Close-up of thick oversized art books stacked with blank cloth spines

Heavy Volumes: Inside Art Book Publishing

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Close-up of wireless headphones resting beside an audio waveform display

Ears Wide Open: The Audiobook Decade in Numbers

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Worn leather psalter binding with brass clasps on a wooden stand

The Locksmith’s Psalm: The Bay Psalm Book and the Price of Being First

David Morgan

Infographic of growth in digitized manuscript pages across major library collections

The Open Folio: Digitized Manuscripts

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Writer and editor in conversation at a bookshop holding hardcover books

The Money Before the Money: How Book Advances Actually Work

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Visitors and a guide examine books chained inside a historic cathedral library

Bound in Iron: What Chained Libraries Reveal About the Price of Books

David Morgan