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The Written Image: Al-Mutanabbi Street Inventory Project
by Staff
May/June 2013
San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil starts a book art project in honor of Baghdad's literary community affected by a 2007 car bombing.
The Revolution: Report From Literary Egypt
by Stephen Morison Jr.
March/April 2013
Contributing editor Stephen Morison Jr. reports on the literary community in Cairo, Egypt, interviewing authors, publishers, and booksellers about the ongoing protests, freedom of speech, and the future of Egypt.
The Written Image: The Word Dress
by Staff
March/April 2013
British bridal-gown designer Jennifer Pritchard Couchman created a dress made entirely out of book pages, which premiered at a literary festival in Lancaster, England, this past October.
Paul Muldoon's Favorite Rock-and-Roll Books, Cloud Atlas Postmortem, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Amazon fired the security company accused of mistreating foreign-born temp workers; a federal jury awarded Patricia Cornwell over fifty million dollars in damages; a major theme of this year's PEN World Voices Festival is bravery; and other news.
Jeffrey Eugenides's Advice to Young Writers, Working with Iraqi Poet Saadi Youssef, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Jeffrey Eugenides shared career advice in a speech to ten young writers; Mashable lists five new companies aiming to improve the experience of reading e-books; novelist Dennis Lehane has promised to include the person who returns his missing beagle in his next book.
Amazon Launches Kindle E-Bookstore in China, Favorite Books of 2012, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Amazon has launched a Kindle store in China; a discovery of a manuscript in Denmark's national archives may be a forgotten story by Hans Christian Andersen; the New York Times has created an e-book publishing program; and other news.
Google Launches Russian E-Bookstore, Literary Death Match TV, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
The Guardian attended a writing workshop to help authors pen more compelling sex scenes; the Charles Dickens Museum has reopened after a complete restoration; the Brooklyn Rail takes a close look at the low-residency MFA program at Bard College; and other news.
Poetry to Fall From the Sky in London, E-book Readers Don't Borrow Digital Books, and More
by Staff
The U.S. government claims Apple is trying to rush the antitrust lawsuit filed against it, Poetry Parnassus plans to drop 100,000 poems from a helicopter over London, only 12 percent of e-book readers borrowed digital books from libraries last year, and more.
Publishing in the Olden Days: Postcard From London, 1987
by Patty Dann
Today, when I logged on to Amazon.com to look up the statistics on my most recent book, I noticed a new category, "Book or Books You Would Recommend INSTEAD of This Book," and I longed for a more civil time. I recalled an October afternoon twenty years ago, when I received a pale blue airmail envelope from my British publisher, the firm of John Murray, Ltd., at 50 Albemarle Street in London. On a manual typewriter, my editor had written that they were "looking forward vigorously to my arrival."
Small Press Points
by Kevin Larimer
September/October 2007
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features Dalkey Archive Press, Open Letter, the New York Review Books Classics, New Directions, Archipelago, Caketrain Press, and Octopus Books.