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Lit Mag Helps Newtown Heal
by Kevin Nance
July/August 2013
The Newtowner, an arts and literary quarterly based in Newtown, Connecticut, published a tribute issue in an effort to help its hometown heal after the shooting at Sand Hook Elementary School.
Digital Digest: The Link From Online to Real Life
by Adrian Versteegh
July/August 2013
New online platforms like Hostr are bridging the gap between virtual and in-real-life communities.
J. M. Coetzee's and Paul Auster's Correspondence, Self-Publishing at SXSW, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Apple CEO Tim Cook may testify in the DOJ's e-book price-fixing lawsuit; Alex Mar examines how Internet access is reshaping the experience of an artists' colony; poet Lisa Russ Spaar investigates the source of her insomnia; and other news.
Parents & Writers
by Carrie Neill
March/April 2013
This spring the San Francisco-based nonprofit Sustainable Arts Foundation launches its residency grant program, which offers support to writers and artists residencies that accomodate writers and artists with children.
Q&A: Levin Expands Idea of Writing Space
by Melissa Faliveno
March/April 2013
Melissa Levin of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council discusses how the nonprofit organization, which was displaced both by the September 11 attacks and more recently Hurricane Sandy, continues to provide office and studio space to writers and artists in lower Manhattan.
Carolyn Kellogg Wants Off the Jane Austen Train, Macmillan Settles with DOJ, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Macmillan settled with the Department of Justice over e-book pricing; Brain Pickings uncovers a touching letter from Charles Dickens to his son; a series of humorous vignettes by Virginia Woolf will be published for the first time; and other news.
Worst Publisher in History, Death of the Partisan Review, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Publishing-related Kickstarter projects raised over fifteen million dollars in 2012; Laura Miller reveals the worst publisher in history; advice on composing a succinct agent query letter; and other news.
Edgar Allan Poe's Baltimore Home Vandalized, One Hundred Notable Books of 2012, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Edgar Allan Poe's historic home in Baltimore has been vandalized; author Wanda Coleman has been hospitalized, and is asking for assistance; Jackson Prize-winning poet Henri Cole's dispatch from Paris; and other news.
William Styron's New Book of Revelatory Letters, Gift Ideas for Literature Lovers, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
The Obama family visited an independent bookstore in Virginia this weekend to promote Small Business Saturday; Flavorwire rounded up a collection of "literary late bloomers," including Charles Bukowski, and Deborah Eisenberg; the Los Angeles Review of Books is attempting to raise ten thousand dollars by Friday; and other news.
Kansas Governor Guts State Arts Agency
by Kevin Nance
UPDATE: In the May/June 2011 issue, we reported that arts advocates had successfully rallied to save the Kansas Arts Commission, but late last month governor Sam Brownback shuttered the agency by line-item vetoing its state funding for the next fiscal year.