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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
by Staff
November/December 2012
With so many good books being published every month, some literary titles worth exploring can get lost in the stacks. Page One offers the first lines of a dozen recently released books, including Matthew Dickman's Mayakovsky's Revolver and A. M. Homes's May We Be Forgiven, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
First: Claire Vaye Watkins’s Battleborn
by Mary Gannon
September/October 2012
After a hotly contested auction among ten major publishers, twenty-eight-year-old Claire Vaye Watkins’s debut story collection, Battleborn, has arrived.
Q&A: NYU's Landau Directs Paris MFA
by Michael Bourne
September/October 2012
As director of NYU’s creative writing program, Deborah Landau speaks about the university’s new low-residency MFA program in Paris and the storied literary history of the City of Light.
The Written Image: The Odyssey
by Staff
September/October 2012
In this issue we offer a look at Seymour Chwast’s graphic novel adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey, to be released by Bloomsbury in September.
VIDA's Powerful Point
by Melissa Faliveno
September/October 2012
With its buzz-generating statistical count of male and female literary bylines, nonprofit organization VIDA: Women in Literary Arts has raised awareness of gender disparity in publishing and created a space in which women can exchange ideas and be heard.
Building a Museum of Their Own
by Alex Dimitrov
September/October 2012
Plans are under way by the American Writers Museum Foundation to develop the first national museum dedicated entirely to the history and influence of American literature.
Digital Digest: Crowdfunding for the Literary Set
by Adrian Versteegh
September/October 2012
With crowdfunding platforms gaining traction in the publishing world, writers now have a means of accessing wider readerships while simultaneously soliciting funding to launch literary projects.
Literary MagNet
by Travis Kurowski
September/October 2012
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 the Hudson Review, BOMB, Esopus, the Rattling Wall, and the Believer.
Lives of the Civil Servants: The Choices We Make
by Jesse Browner
September/October 2012
After reading about one famed writer’s seemingly carefree existence, novelist Jesse Browner ruminates on his personal decision to forego the romanticized bohemian life and contemplates every writer’s choice to pursue the trade-offs writers face between artistic aspirations or financial security.
The Teachable Talent: Why Creative Writing Can Be Taught
by Gregory Spatz
September/October 2012
Having witnessed firsthand the merits of one student’s MFA education, author and creative writing teacher Gregory Spatz considers the well-worn debate on whether creative writing can be taught, and what he himself learned from his mentorship role.