The Task of the Literary Translator, MFA Debate Continues, and More
Shameful reading; the cultural triumph of Yeats’s “The Second Coming”; artisanal pencils; and other news.
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Shameful reading; the cultural triumph of Yeats’s “The Second Coming”; artisanal pencils; and other news.
Oyster opens retail store; AWP begins today; T. C. Boyle on endings; and other news.
Derrida’s library goes to Princeton; part two of Mark Strand’s final interview; fiction’s religious quality; and other news.
The Nation celebrates one hundred fifty years; New York City Twitter poetry competition opens; teaching Thomas Pynchon; and other news.
Coffee House Press receives grant; Library of Congress management investigation; crime writing politics; and other news.
Tom McCarthy interviewed; remembering Margaret Howe Freydburg; University of Georgia Press launches nonfiction series; and other news.
HarperCollins could withdraw books from Amazon; Jane Austen’s continued popularity; James Patterson: Book Czar; and other news.
Tournament of Books champion; Purdue sued over Amazon contract; on young writers; and other news.
Fire Island Artist Residency destroyed; memoirs in the age of over-sharing; Dickens’s desk on display; and other news.
The Tarot’s literary appeal; Ferguson Library director receives ALA prize; Clean Reader app will stop selling books; and other news.