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Jonathan Lethem and Jennifer Egan visit Occupy Wall Street in New York City; Political analyst Rachel Maddow cites Herman Cain's misuse of poetry; a 1960 letter to a fan written by Harper Lee will be auctioned today; and other news.
Today, Barnes & Noble unveiled its Nook Tablet; Philip Levine talks about his least favorite jobs; producer Scott Rudin has optioned film rights to Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot; and other news.
P. Scott Cunningham, poet and director of the literary festival O, Miami, gives a writer's tour of Miami, Florida—a city in the throes of cultural enlightenment.
Terror suspects arrested this week reportedly were inspired by a manuscript posted online; the fate of St. Mark's Bookshop in New York City seems finally to be resolved; Bob Vila tours Edith Wharton's restored Berkshire retreat; and other news.
A closer look at Amazon Publishing's numbers; Elizabeth Bishop was also a painter, and a book of her visual art has been published; Salmon Rushdie weighs in on Kim Kardashian; and other news.
Ragip Zarakolu, a publisher and free-speech activist, has been imprisoned by the Turkish government; Novelist Hisham Matar will return to Libya to find his father, long imprisoned by the Qaddafi regime; how to save thousands of dollars on rare books; and other news.
Today marks the beginning of National Novel Writing Month; New Hampshire's RiverRun Bookstore is in danger of closing; Pauline Kael's rivalry with Joan Didion; and other news.
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 Memoir (and), Harvard Review, Huizache, the Coffin Factory, Monday Night, and Ploughshares.
With so many good books being published every month, some literary titles worth exploring can get lost in the stacks. Page One offers the first lines of a dozen recently released books, including Aracelis Girmay’s Kingdom Animalia, and Tomaž Šalamun’s The Blue Tower, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
While U.S. publishers continue their cautious march into the digitization of American titles, the rest of the world is looking to take advantage of other burgeoning markets in Europe, Japan, and beyond.
