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In this new 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. And if you don't? Quit complaining, they're free.
Advancements in print-on-demand technology, such as the Espresso Book Machine, are offering publishers and authors alike new opportunities to bridge the still-pronounced divide between electronic and "tangible" publishing.
Tom Corwin is hitting the road this spring on a cross-country bookmobile trip; Faber & Faber is starting a new creative writing school in Canada; bloggers draw attention to the various editors of the 2010 Best American series of anthologies, all of whom are white men; and other news.
Wordnik announces its new Smartwords initiative; a look at last year's best-seller lists, arranged by American city; Knopf will publish New Yorker editor David Remnick's biography of Barack Obama; Dell plans to release its Mini 5 tablet; and other news.
Villagers in Yemen protest the country's dictator poet laureate; Alibris aquires Monsoon; Salman Rushdie announces plans for a book on the fatwa years; a Chicago teacher is changing lives through spoken word; and other news.
The PEN American Center celebrates Black History Month with author tributes and rare recordings; the Boston Public Library faces major closures due to budget cuts; a poet in Florida is accused of killing her boyfriend; thousands of authors opt out of the Google Settlement; and other news.
The world's biggest book club started in a hair salon in Texas; the French National Library pays millions for a Casanova manuscript; the finalists for oddest book title of the year are announced; and other news.
A judge delays his ruling on the Google Settlement indefinitely; Elizabeth Alexander pens a tribute to Lucille Clifton; Ingram offers downloadable audio books to troops overseas; Up in the Air author is snubbed by Oscar ceremony despite six nominations; and other news.
A ruling on the Google Books Settlement is due today; Apple may discount e-book titles just like Amazon; the person accused of killing three University of Alabama colleagues is a relative of John Irving; front-runners emerge for the Oxford professor of poetry post; and other news.
Barnes & Noble rejects a billionaire investor's takeover bid; the Academy of American Poets launches an iPhone app; a British rail company starts a book club for train commuters; Hindi poet rejects major literary prize; and other news.
