Breaking: People are terrible. “We experience Schadenfreude (pleasure at another person’s distress) by the age of four…We would rather electrocute ourselves than spend time in our own thoughts … We are moral hypocrites,” among other things!
What’s behind a recent rise in books coverage, Sam Eichner asks in the Columbia Journalism Review? “Since the beginning of 2017, the New York Times has continued to expand its already robust book coverage. More recently, New York announced that it would triple its book coverage. In October, the Atlantic launched a Books section and a newsletter, ‘The Books Briefing,’ with plans for ‘additional products.’ Even BuzzFeed is getting in on the action: in November, they launched an online book club, complete with an attendant Facebook group and newsletter.”
