Although Ireland past and present looms large in Eavan Boland's latest book, In a Time of Violence, she says she is moved by the story of American poetry.
November/December 1994
Features
A Day with Gwendolyn Brooks: Why Should Anyone Need More Than This?
The first black writer to win a Pulitzer Prize visits northeast Nebraska.
Montreal: The Jerusalem of the North
Tensions may be easing between English-language writers and French Canadian literary stars.
Story Line Press: "Keeping Alive the Stories of Our Time"
In rural Oregon, Robert McDowell views his small press as if readers, authors, and staff were an ever-growing family.
An Interview With Eavan Boland
Although Ireland past and present looms large in Eavan Boland's latest book, In a Time of Violence, she says she is moved by the story of American poetry.
Eating a Novel
When his manuscript is rejected for the final time, novelist can't quite pronounce it dead.
An Interview with Es'Kia Mphahlele
Although Es'Kia Mphahlele is known as an elder statesman of black South African literature, there was a time when he lived in exile and his works were banned.
News and Trends
Small Press Center Opens Reference Library
The Small Press Reference Center in New York City has opened a new collection of reference books and periodicals for writers and publishers.
Large Poetry Endowment for Baylor University
Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has received approximately $250,000 to support the development of an annual Beall Poetry Festival.
A New Newsletter for Readers of "Select Fiction"
Former New Yorker editor Jane Dienstfrey introduces Select Fiction, a bimonthly newsletter that in each issue contains ten or more brief reviews of currently available books of literary merit that have not made it to one of the...
Don't Quit Your Day Job
A survey conducted last April by the Princeton Survey Research Associates on behalf of the Author's League Fund concludes "most established authors cannot make ends meet by their writing income alone."
Writers Helping Writers: A Survey of Writers' Centers
A directory of U.S. and Canadian literary centers.