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Steve Martin will publish a new novel this fall; Kay Ryan completes her two-year term as poet laureate; Barnes & Noble enters the self-publishing business; a retired theater professor memorizes all ten thousand lines of Paradise Lost; and other news.
The Wimbledon tennis tournament gets a poet-in-residence; Guns N' Roses releases a vook; the Belarussian PEN Center president is detained by police; Amazon announces a second publishing imprint; and other news.
Anne Rice puts her southern California hom on the market; Obama is paid $500,000 for a young adult edition of Dreams From My Father; a ninety-eight-year-old woman in Japan self-publishes a poetry best-seller; James Frey is a hit in France; and other news.
An online charity auction has raised more than $53,000 for Tennessee flood victims; the Russian government has launched an ad campaign to promote reading; Verizon and Google are working on a new tablet; Barnes & Noble is giving away e-books to Nook owners; and
other news.
The ABA and ABC announce a possible merger; Wikipedia launches a custom book-making feature; the New York Public Library gets some help from a skateboarding dog; an Irish author dies in the Libyan plane crash; and other news.
Matt Damon stars in the latest Philip K. Dick adaptation; 2010 has been a great year for poetry from university presses; the annual Dakota Cowboy Poetry Gathering kicks off later this month; PCWorld takes a closer look at Google Editions; and other news.
Truman Capote's Brooklyn residence is up for sale; blind poet Tato Laviera finds a home; Quirk Books moves to Random House; the New Yorker will publish a list of the best twenty writers under forty; and other news.
Google Editions reportedly has the backing of nearly all U.S. publishers; an Australian physicist finds a ninety-nine-year-old error in the Oxford English Dictionary; New Jersey scholars champion poetry therapy; a German publisher finds a new use for cigarette vending machines; and other news.
Borders enters the e-reader market; reports of censorship at the Tehran
Book Fair emerge; Jamaica's Calabash Literary Festival prepares to
celebrate ten years; the Guardian explores the globalization of
English; and other news.
