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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 Terese Svoboda’s Bohemian Girl and Sven Birkerts's The Other Walk, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
In this regular feature, we offer a few suggestions for podcasts, smartphone apps, Web tools, newsletters, museum shows, and gallery openings: a medley of literary curiosities that you might enjoy. This issue’s 3 for Free features the Poetry Foundation’s new app, Google’s online Art Project, and Project Gutenberg.
In this issue we offer a look at a note written in 1969 from Edward Gorey to Peter F. Neumeyer, included in the book Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer, published by Pomegranate this month.
Answers to the most commonly asked questions about our rankings of full-residency, low-residency, and doctoral programs in creative writing.
The top fifteen creative writing doctoral programs in the United States, from the University of Denver in Colorado to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
We’ve compiled this annual guide to graduate creative writing programs—which includes our rankings of the top full- and low-residency MFA programs (with honorable mentions) and, new to this year, doctoral programs—to provide a spark for the deep thinking and serious consideration that the process of choosing a program requires.
Libyan bookseller reopens shop after revolt; Kashmir's literary festival is canceled; Goethe Prize goes to Syrian poet; Ann Patchett on making the writer's life; and other news.
A number of bookstores on the East Coast were hit hard by Hurricane Irene; a group of novelists imagine Moammar Gadhafi's current state of mind; media critic Jack Shafter advises journalists to "always be looking for your next gig"; and other news.
Six shorts to read during a hurricane; James Frey says, "I'm done writing books"; Stephen King's "Pretty Good Cake"; and other news.
Steve Jobs, the enigmatic leader of Apple, has stepped down; Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood has been banned from a high school reading list in New Jersey; surrounded by Jack Kerouac; and other news.
