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A bookless library is considered in Newport Beach, California; how not to react to a negative book review; the O, Miami festival seeks to reach more than two million people with poetry; the role of poet laureates in politics; and other news.
Ron Silliman contemplates the end of his eight-year poetry blog; a fake Rahm Emanuel lands a book deal; the PEN World Voices Festival all-star lineup is announced; the role of poetry in the Taliban's war strategy; and other news.
Politics and Prose bookstore finds a buyer; literature's crises (and rallies) through the ages; Elizabeth Bennett may have listened to indie rock; Borders plans to pay bonuses; and other news.
The trouble with digitizing line breaks; dissecting the O: The Oprah Magazine poet fashion spread; Amanda Hocking strikes again; the iPad 2 sells out around the world; and other news.
The Japanese publishing industry is weathering the recent disasters and pitching in with relief efforts; Powell's Books releases a mobile app; Lawrence Ferlinghetti turned ninety-two yesterday; Amanda Hocking signs a four-book deal with St. Martin's; and other news.
More in-depth coverage of the rejected Google Books Settlement; the Best Translated Book Award finalists; Barnes & Noble can't find a buyer; the It Gets Better Project publishes a book; and other news.
Judge Chin rejects the $125 million Google Books Settlement; Lendl is back in business after a media kerfuffle; arts education alternatives to the MFA; the Blackberry Playbook steps up to challenge the iPad 2; and other news.
Amanda Hocking goes traditional for a million dollars; the tenth annual E-poetry Festival in Buffalo, New York; Microsoft sues Barnes & Noble; electronic-publishing bingo; and other news.
Today is World Poetry Day; Kwame Anthony Appiah is reelected as president of the PEN American Center; the world's first e-book library opens in China; a Brazilian pop singer gets nearly eight hundred thousand dollars to start a poetry blog; and other news.
A "book bomb" injures four people in Indonesia; Borders announces the closure of twenty-eight more stores; e-book sales jump 115 percent in January; optimism reigns at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair; and other news.
