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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 Leslie Marmon Silko's The Turquoise Ledge and Julia Franck's The Blindness of the Heart, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
A fictional TV character publishes a real world memoir; most college students still prefer print books over e-books; Melville House pulls out of the Best Translated Book awards; the Telegraph sponsor's Britain's Hay Festival; and other news.
Powell's Books has acquired Anne Rice's personal library; Flavorwire celebrates Halloween with a horror writer graveyard tour; ghostwriting for Keith Richards; a Maine used-book store owner gets in trouble with a political ethics committee; and other news.
Arundhati Roy may face sedition charges in India; Barnes & Noble unveils the Nook Color; the Schomburg Center in New York City acquires Maya Angelou's papers; the Jane Austen Conference in Portland, Oregon; and other news.
Franzen meets the president; Texas bills Amazon for $269 million; Barnes & Noble may unveil a full-color Nook today; Sherman Alexie gets selected for One Book, One Philadelphia, twice; and other news.
Loaning books on a Kindle; the Paris Review interviews are all available online; Electric Literature launches a book app service; Steinbeck's son loses literary estate court battle; and other news.
A short film by Tucker Capps, inspired by One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe, edited by Molly McQuade and published by Sarabande Books this month.
Turn your handwriting into a font; Salman Rushdie signs a multimillion dollar memoir deal with Random House; the Dead Sea Scrolls will soon be available for free online; Amazon underwrites the Best Translated Book Awards; and other news.
A textbook author rewrites Civil War history, incorrectly; author Jon Meacham becomes an editor at Random House; book collecting as a long-term financial strategy; Blurb's pop-up store in New York City; and other news.
Matthew Stadler, cofounder of Publication Studio, one of the innovative presses featured in the new issue, gave this talk at Richard Hugo House's first writers conference, on May 22, 2010. The theme of the event was "Finding Your Readers in the 21st Century."
