About Book Think

Book Think is a guide to "dead trees," live Web fiction, and everything in between. It features book news, reviews, literary essays, and commentary on changes in the publishing industry. Austin Allen is a teaching fellow and MFA student in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, as well as a former editor at Big Think. He lives in Baltimore. 

Links

• The Book Bench (The New Yorker)
• Harriet (Poetry Foundation)
• GalleyCat (MediaBistro)
• Arts & Letters Daily
• 3 Quarks Daily
• The Second Pass
• Bookslut
• ArtsBeat - Books (New York Times)
• Jacket Copy (LA Times)
• The Nervous Breakdown
• The Millions
• The Quarterly Conversation
• TeleRead
• The New York Review of Books
• Bookforum
• Open Letters Monthly
• Page Views

Recent Posts

• 5/20

  From “Do I Dare?” to “Yes, We Can!”: Young Obama and T. S. Eliot

• 5/02

  On the Return of "Mein Kampf" to Germany

• 4/24

  Could St. George's Day Save the Book Industry?

• 4/08

  The Joys of Sex, Springtime, and the Song of Songs

• 4/04

  The New "Google Glasses" Ad: Some Version of Hell

• 3/28

  The Role of the Novelist: How Jonathan Franzen Won the Book Publicity Game

• 3/23

  The Man Who Died for Poetry

• 3/11

  Why We Still Badly Need James Baldwin

• 3/03

  Book Think Miscellany: Reader Feedback, Holden, Jane Eyre

• 2/26

  Is Holden Caulfield Obnoxious?