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PEN International condemns the arrest of writer Ye Du in China; the San Francisco Public Library hosts a speed-dating session; a five-day nonstop marathon reading of the King James Bible in Bath, England; poet Andrew Motion becomes a playwright; and other news.
Donald Hall and Harper Lee will receive National Humanities Medals; literary journal Open City is ceasing publication after twenty years; Michel Houellebecq releases a music single; Bloomsbury USA posts its best financial year ever; and other news.
Banned books return to shelves in Tunisia and Egypt; Random House switches to the agency model; Penguin reports a 26 percent operating profit for 2010; librarians join the ongoing protests in Madison, Wisconsin; and other news.
The launch of Google’s eBookstore, which offers a unique compatibility across more than eighty-five devices, could prove to be a game-changing challenge to the closed systems of Amazon, Apple, and Barnes & Noble.
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.
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 T. C. Boyle's When the Killing's Done and Laura Kasischke's Space, in Chains, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
Shortly after Michael Chabon stepped into the position of chair of the MacDowell Colony’s board of directors last December, he spoke about his dedication to the colony and about making the most of the MacDowell experience.
While caring for her dying grandmother, author Lisa Saffran gained new perspective on the richness of life in language as well as a renewed perseverance as a creative writer.
Does your book need to be finished before you seek representation? Do agents really read synopses? Agent Jenni Ferrari-Adler, whose clients include Lauren Shockey and Emma Straub, answers these questions and more.
A scene from The Select (The Sun Also Rises), the third in a trilogy of productions based on modernist American literature of the 1920s by New York City–based theater company Elevator Repair Service, which will play at Emerson College’s Paramount Center in Boston from March 15 to March 20.
