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New Book Club Gets a Jump on Critics
by Kevin Canfield
Online Only, posted 8.03.10
The Rumpus Book Club, launched in May by Stephen Elliott, offers a compelling twist on the traditional model of online book clubs. Members pay for two things: advance copies of new books, which they’ll receive a month before the official publication date, and access to the people who’ve written them.
The What and the How of It
by John Biguenet
Online Only, posted 7.01.10
An excerpt from “The What and the How of It” by John Biguenet (in Before During After, edited by Elizabeth Kleinveld, to be published by the University of New Orleans Press in 2010).
Finding the Right Words
by Michael Depp
January/February 2006
A writer grapples with his decision to abandon writing, flee New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and become a passive witness to a narrative spun by nature.
Writers, Interrupted
by Katheryn Krotzer Laborde
January/February 2006
One writer's monthlong journey with her family from her home on the Gulf Coast to three different cities as she searches for a respite from the storm, meeting others along the way whose loss puts hers in perspective.
Believe It or Not
by Joshua Clark
January/February 2006
A writer who stayed in the French Quarter during and after Katrina measures the spirit of America’s oldest Bohemia before its reincarnation.
Literary New Orleans, Post-Katrina
by Nicole Cooley
July/August 2010
On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, several local and national arts organizations, including the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society and the Poetry Society of America, are presenting readings in New Orleans to commemorate all that was lost—the lives, homes, businesses, and communities—and to celebrate a flourishing of the literary arts in the area since the storm.
Necessary Agent
by Jofie Ferrari-Adler
July/August 2010
An editor reveals how the best agents—Molly Friedrich, Jud Laghi, Chris Parris-Lamb, Scott Moyers, and Jennifer Joel among them—work behind the scenes to help their clients’ books get the attention they deserve.
Q&A: Halpern's Enduring Poetry Series
by Timothy Schaffert
July/August 2010
On the thirtieth anniversary of the launch of the National Poetry Series, Halpern speaks about both its history and its future.
Literary MagNet
by Staff
July/August 2010
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 Isotope, Gigantic, Bombay Gin, Ploughshares, the Harvard Review, and Prairie Schooner.
Roosevelt's Writers
by Kevin Nance
July/August 2010
The Federal Writers' Project was established seventy-five years ago, and according to one author and documentary filmmaker, it was a watershed event, if not a turning point, in the history of American literature. Employing up to 7,500 people annually during its four-year run, the Writers’ Project nurtured a generation of authors who otherwise might have been forced into nonliterary careers.