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Celebrating the Chapbook: Postcard From New York City
This past weekend, as the sidewalks and the streets of midtown Manhattan once again began to fill with urban dwellers lingering in the first warmth of spring, some of New York City’s writers and publishers found pause indoors, creating, investigating, and celebrating the little sibling of the poetry collection: the chapbook.
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Authors Granted More Time to Consider Google Settlement
A New York City judge approved on Tuesday a four-month extension of the deadline for authors to agree or object to a settlement with Google Inc. over its massive book-scanning venture.
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Amazon Acquires Lexcycle, Creator of Stanza iPhone App
Lexcycle, the company that created Stanza, the free e-book application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, yesterday announced that it had been acquired by Amazon. Neither company disclosed financial details. "We are not planning any changes in the Stanza application or user experience as a result of the acquisition, representatives from Lexcycle wrote on the company's blog. "Customers will still be able to browse, buy, and read e-books from our many content partners."
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U.K. Expected to Appoint Its First Woman Poet Laureate
Carol Ann Duffy has been nominated for appointment by Queen Elizabeth as the next poet laureate of Great Britain.
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HarperCollins Cancels Final Ballard Book
HarperCollins has canceled the publication of J. G. Ballard’s last book following the author’s death on Sunday, April 19. Conversations, formerly slated for release in September, was to have recounted discussions between Ballard and his oncologist. The project stalled after Ballard, who was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in 2006, became too ill to work.
Confessions of a Dangerous Reader and Teacher
One of my favorite passages in literature is from Italo Calvino’s if on a winter’s night a traveler—the one in which the narrator stands in the bookstore listing all the different kinds of books every true reader owns but will never read. Somehow it’s always captured, exactly, the disconnect between the truth and fiction of my own reading life.
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Dodge Poetry Festival Launches YouTube Channel
Despite the cancellation of its 2010 poetry festival, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation recently launched a channel on YouTube featuring twenty-nine videos of poets reading at past festivals. The biennial event, which is held in Waterloo Village, New Jersey, has hosted blockbuster poets such as Billy Collins, Robert Hass, Maxine Kumin, and Paul Muldoon.
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Two Suspects Plead Guilty to Plotting Attack on London Publisher
Two men who were arrested last September on charges of conspiring to firebomb the London home of the publisher of a controversial novel about a wife of the prophet Muhammad have pleaded guilty.
Chicagoans Brace for Talk Like Shakespeare Day
Last week Chicago mayor Richard Daley proclaimed April 23, the 445th birthday of William Shakespeare, to be Talk Like Shakespeare Day throughout the city. On Thursday residents of Chicago are encouraged to incorporate phrases such as "prithee," "thou," "fie!" and "knave" into their everyday conversations as a way to celebrate the lasting influence of the Bard and his work.
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