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Artist Colin McMullan, founder of the Kindness and Imagination Development Society, has found one way to take the act of sharing that’s become so popular with social media outside the electronic box and into the physical world with his Corner Library project.
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features Exterminating Angel Press, the six-year-old independent book publisher with a big mission: to challenge the received cultural narrative.
In this issue we offer a look at one of the 552 illustrations by Tim Kish, who created a picture a day for each page of Melville’s tome, featured in Moby-Dick in Pictures, published in October by Tin House Books.
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.
The inspired world of Steve Jobs, through the eyes of his novelist sister; Ireland elects a poet president; Barnes and Noble expands e-book real estate; T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx, penpals; and other news.
Writers from the San Francisco Bay area have signed a petition denouncing Oakland's recent actions toward protestors; literary agent Ira Silverberg will be the new literature director of the National Endowment for the Arts; Philip K. Dick's estate has filed a lawsuit against the makers of the film The Adjustment Bureau; and other news.
E-bookseller Kobo will create a publishing division; the Chicago Tribune is planning a standalone books section; writers Walter Kirn, Steve Martin, Rita Dove, and Amy Tan recently met at a Chinese restaurant in New York City to play poker; and other news.
Melville House publisher, Dennis Johnson, adds his voice to the ongoing debate over the future of publishing; Occupy Wall Street has created a poetry anthology; Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison has written a new play, Desdemona, that speaks to Shakespeare's Othello; and other news.
Writer Paul Malmont is promoting a holiday book drive to send reading material to troops; Africa's most influential celebrity is novelist Chinua Achebe; novelist Shalom Auslander solicits John Hodgman, Sarah Vowell, and Ira Glass for a huge favor; and other news.
Frieda Hughes, the daughter of Sylvia Plath and the late British poet Ted Hughes, writes of her mother's drawings; novelist Curtis Sittenfeld interviews Lan Samantha Chang, the director of the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop; literary journal n+1 has created a new publication, Occupy; and other news.
