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St. Martin’s Press answers plagiarism accusations over a book about Edgar Allan Poe's young bride; the Rumpus has some choice words for Amazon; Salon lists the top five books of fiction for 2011; and other news.
The New York Times details the international financing behind one of the adaptations of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas; holiday gifts for writers they will actually use; a possible Jane Austen portrait has been discovered; and other news.
The only independent bookstore in the Bronx, New York, will close this month; Rita Dove responds to Helen Vendler's review of The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry; John Jeremiah Sullivan accompanies Denis Johnson on several excursions in North Carolina, including a flytrap preserve; and other news.
A community rallies to save New Hampshire's RiverRun Books; the New York Times details a weekly meeting of the young writers who edit The New Inquiry; three titles relating to the Occupy movement are scheduled to be published; and other news.
The New York Times lists the ten best books of 2011; Deadwood creator David Milch has contracted to adapt William Faulker's works for HBO; novelist Jennifer Gilmore writes of meeting a potential birth mother; and other news.
Novelist Glen David Gold writes of Faulkner and literary relationships; Gabriel García Márquez wins a seventeen-year legal battle; Quentin Rowan, whose plagiarized novel was recently pulled from the shelves, has published a confession; and other news.
Novelist Keith Gessen details his two days held in New York City's infamous jail the Tombs; a new literary feud has developed between Niall Ferguson and Pankaj Mishra; poet John Ashbery speaks with Time; and other news.
The weekend after Thanksgiving, president Obama took his daughters to shop at an independent bookstore; poet Daisy Fried reviews Herbert Leibowitz's new William Carlos Williams biography, Something Urgent I Have to Say to You; Jack Kerouac's first novel has been published seventy years after it was written; and more.
Novelist Steve Almond writes of the actions of law enforcement officers at UC Davis and elsewhere; a doll-sized manuscript handwritten by Charlotte Brontë has been discovered; the best literature of family dysfunction; and other news.
The New York Times has listed its 100 Notable Books of 2011; Consumer Reports compares a few of the latest e-readers; the Literary Review's annual Bad Sex in Literature Award has been announced; and other news.
