We survived the Bookopalypse!

Plus an update on the Blake Bailey/Philip Roth shambles

Usually, when I do something for the first time, I start in the library. When I wanted to become a journalist, I read Mencken’s Newspaper Days. When I wanted to sail, I read The Wayfarer Book. And when I wanted to start a book publishing company, I read John B. Thompson’s Merchant of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century.

I read a …