PEN American Center’s Sony Protest, Chaucer on Twitter, and More
Kenneth Goldsmith’s course on time wasting; e-readers found to disrupt sleep; Booktrack app hits one million users; and other news.
Genre: Not Genre-Specific
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes’s Courtship, Writers on Writing, and More
Celebrity memoir sales slow; the best of “best-of” lists; Merriam-Webster’s word of the year; and other news.
Literacy Charities, World’s Greatest Storytellers, and More
Painters and poets of the New York School; the year of the essay; active reading; and other news.
Expensive Book Bids, a Push for Libraries to Emulate Coffee Shops, and More
Joseph Brodsky’s commencement speech; chapbooks over greeting cards; beyond the Bechdel Test; and other news.
The Prince of Poets, Handwriting Advocacy, and More
Too many hyphens; responding to critics; the year’s best sentences; and other news.
The Written Image: Sorted Books
In her Sorted Books project, Nina Katchadourian arranges books from libraries—including William S. Burroughs’s personal collection, as well as those housed in museums and galleries across the country, to find a kind of poetry in the spines.
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Hurston/Wright Foundation Turns 25
Amidst questions of racial diversity in the publishing industry, the Hurston/Wright foundation continues its outstanding support of African American writers, promising a brighter outlook for the state of writing in America.
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Typewriters in the 21st Century
Innovations like the USB Typewriter, Hanx Writer, Hemingwrite, and Typing Writer are giving new life to the classic typewriter by updating it for the digital world.
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Literary MagNet
Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue’s MagNet features Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, Gigantic, and Parallax.
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