- Six Hundred Books, Eight Weeks
An orientation piece that establishes the sheer scale of the rentrée littéraire — how many titles enter simultaneously, how that number has changed over decades, and what it means for any individual book's chances.
- The Table at the Front of the Shop
A close examination of the bookshop display table as a commercial and curatorial instrument — who decides what goes on it, how those decisions are made, and what it actually does to sales.
- Where Reviews Come From
A practical account of how books get reviewed — the relationship between publishers, literary editors, and critics, and why certain titles receive coverage while equally serious ones do not.
- The Books That Vanish
An essay arguing that disappearance is the normal condition of most published books, not a failure — examining what it means for a title to go out of print, and why the season's losses are structurally inevitable rather than correctable.
- What a Press Release Actually Does
A short, wry dissection of the publisher's press release as a genre — its conventions, its characteristic evasions, and what a careful reader can deduce from what it chooses not to say.