Articles from Poet & Writers Magazine include material from the print edition plus exclusive online-only material.
Such Sweet Sorrow
by Joshua Bodwell
May/June 2008
Speculation and rumor continue to drive the gossip surrounding Tom Wolfe’s and Richard Ford’s decisions to leave their former publishing houses, but their true reasons remain a mystery.
Way, Way Too Much Information
by Frank Bures
May/June 2008
Today, it seems that we have access to an unlimited amount of information all the time, and for those of us who want to be alone with our thoughts, that information is getting harder and harder to avoid. More and more of us suffer from a condition sometimes called "digital information overload," or "infomania."
Memoir? What Memoir? Frey’s Novel
by Daniel Nester
May/June 2008
The public rehabilitation of disgraced author James Frey is slated to begin May 13. That's the day Bright Shiny Morning, a novel, hits bookstores nationwide in what he and his publisher undoubtedly hope will be a well-received comeback.
Literary MagNet
by Kevin Larimer
May/June 2008
Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue's MagNet features Ninth Letter, Oxford American, and the Literary Review.
Small Press Points
by Kevin Larimer
May/June 2008
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features BOA Editions, Ltd., Four Way Books, Wave Books, Anhinga Press, Copper Canyon Press, Margie/IntuiT House, Graywolf Press, and Cy Gist Press.
Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
by Staff
May/June 2008
This Page One features excerpts from The Film Club by David Gilmour and The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer.
Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Agent Nat Sobel
by Jofie Ferrari-Adler
May/June 2008
Agent Nat Sobel, one of the most forward-thinking and outspoken agents in the business, voices his opinions on what authors should do for themselves, the dangers of MFA programs, and what he finds in literary magazines.
Q&A: Rebecca Wolff's Fence Turns Ten
by Kevin Larimer
May/June 2008
Founder and editor Rebecca Wolff speaks about Fence magazine’s tenth anniversary.
Putting Your Poetry in Order
by Katrina Vandenberg
May/June 2008
Ordering poems becomes a familiar act if you consider the lyric poem in its original form—the song. And if you were the kind of incessant list-maker Nick Hornby describes in his novel High Fidelity, the kind who also made mix tapes from your album collection. If you were the kind of geek my college boyfriend, Tim, was and—admittedly—the kind I was too.
Mailer Remembered: Postcard From New York City
by R. B. Stuart
Online Only, posted 4.23.08
On Wednesday, April 9, five months after his death at age eighty-four from acute renal failure, hoards of literary aficionados, friends, colleagues, and readers of Norman Mailer attended a memorial for the author at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Among the scheduled speakers were authors Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, and William Kennedy, actor Sean Penn, and members of Mailer’s family.
