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Actor Johnny Depp is launching a HarperCollins imprint called Infinitum Nihil; Microsoft announced the pricing for its new line of Surface tablets; the battle over the ownership of Franz Kafka's papers has been decided in court; and other news.
The Association of American Publishers reports sales rose over 13 percent for the first half of 2012; Robert Atwan lists the ten best essays written since 1950; literary podcast Other People with Brad Listi has created an app; and other news.
A technology company intends to create a Spotify-like service for books; David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants has purchased film rights to Jonathan Evison's The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving; Alexander Chee lists twenty-one lies writers tell themselves; and other news.
In the Authors Guild lawsuit, a judge ruled that libraries that offered books for scanning are protected by copyright's fair use doctrine; Sarah Marian Seltzer describes the experience of modeling for seven hundred Jane Austen enthusiasts; Halloween's approaching, and GalleyCat features a selection of favorite literary costumes.
Jon Stock details how he convinced an overzealous online critic to retract a one-star review; Brain Pickings showcases the two-book collaboration between artist R. Crumb and Charles Bukowski; Margaret Atwood offers ten tips for writers; and other news.
HBO's Girls creator Lena Dunham's first collection of essays sold to Random House for a reported 3.7 million dollars; Jason Diamond reports on attending a sold out reading by Zadie Smith and Michael Chabon at the famed 92nd Street Y in New York City; the University of Missouri changed its decision to close the University of Missouri Press; and other news.
Amazon is threatening to remove buy buttons from certain publishing house's titles; Lucy McKeon writes of the desire to meet her literary idol, the author Joan Didion; the New Yorker Festival is this weekend, and last-minute tickets are available; and other news.
Famed New York City reading venue, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, is planning a multi-million dollar renovation; Judith Thurman writes of attending the party for Molly Ringwald's first novel; Open Letters Monthly examines the life and work of noted womanizer, addict, and novelist Gabriele D’Annunzio; and other news.
National Novel Writing Month in coming up, and its organizers report ninety published novels began as NaNoWriMo projects; an unpublished Sylvia Plath poem has surfaced; Michelle Dean looks at the life and work of Wallace Stevens; and other news.
Publishers will bid on a nonfiction proposal by HBO's Girls creator Lena Dunham this week, with bidding starting at one million dollars; author Misha Angrist catalogs the five stages of grief that follow book publication; Seth Fried offers advice on your upcoming MFA application; and other news.
