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Belle Boggs, one of the five writers featured in our tenth annual debut-fiction roundup, is the author of the collection Mattaponi Queen, published by Graywolf Press in June.
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Jan/Feb 2012
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Online Only, posted 2.03.12
Melville House wonders when publishers will speak out about Amazon; New York City's Algonquin Hotel announced that when it reopens this spring after a renovation, the famed Oak Room will be gone; E. B. White answers a charge levied by the ASPCA; and more
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Online Only, posted 2.02.12
Nobel prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, as well as Surrealist artist and poet Dorothea Tanning, passed away yesterday in their respective countries; novelist Paul Auster has engaged in a war of words with Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey; Open Letters Monthly examines the hidden life of Virginia Woolf's institutionalized half-sister, Laura Makepeace Stephen; and other news.
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Online Only, posted 2.01.12
GalleyCat reports adult hardcover sales were down in November; Oxford professor of poetry Geoffrey Hill offers choice words for the United Kingdom's poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy; Sherman Alexie responds to a ban of ethnic studies in Tucson classrooms; and other news.
by Tess Taylor
January/February 2012
After making a name for itself in independent-press circles with its stylish, smart books of fiction, children’s literature, and food writing, the fourteen-year-old San Francisco–based outfit McSweeney’s is starting its first poetry imprint.
by Frank Bures
January/February 2012
Barraged by dozens of gigabytes of information each day, the mind of the contemporary writer can be stimulated to the point of creative shutdown. But writers throughout history have grappled with distraction, and understanding the tendencies of the artistic mind may be the first step to opening space for creativity to flourish.
by Kevin Nance
January/February 2012
For nearly a century, the ampersand has been a key feature of certain strands of American poetry. To understand its history in the genre—and the role it plays for contemporary poets—one must return to the character’s origins.
by Jofie Ferrari-Adler
November/December 2009
As the editor in chief of Twelve, Jonathan Karp is always looking for good writing. Considering that half of all the books he’s published there have become best-sellers, that should make a lot of writers very, very excited.
by Alex Dimitrov
November/December 2011
Artist Colin McMullan, founder of the Kindness and Imagination Development Society, has found one way to take the act of sharing that’s become so popular with social media outside the electronic box and into the physical world with his Corner Library project.
by April Ossmann
March/April 2011
Ordering a poetry collection requires the ability to see each poem from a distance as well as analyze the manuscript as a whole. The former executive editor of Alice James Books reveals her strategies for editing a strong book.
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