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Small Press Points
by Staff
May/June 2013
Small Press Points highlights the innovation and can-do spirit of independent presses. This issue features Gazing Grain Press, an inclusive feminist press based in Fairfax, Virginia, that publishes one title each year as part of its annual poetry and hybrid-prose chapbook contest.
Emily Gould on the Memoirs of Mary MacLane, E-Book Prices at Record Low, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Amazon Publishing announced it intends to dramatically speed up royalty payments to its authors; Tampa Bay Times revisits the last interview with Jack Kerouac; the Rose Reading Room inside the New York Public Library’s main branch may attain landmark protection; and other news.
George Saunders Profile, Most Anticipated Books of 2013, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Independent bookstores may now sell Kobo tablets; Joel Lovell profiles master storyteller George Saunders in this weekend's New York Times Magazine; H. P. Lovecraft's advice to young writers; and other news.
Self-Published Novelist Lands Book Deal, Bram Stoker's Friendship with Walt Whitman, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Gift ideas for every book lover on your holiday shopping list; the unexpected literary friendship between Dracula author Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman; what Shakespeare can teach us about the fiscal cliff; and other news.
Jonathan Evison Candidly Reveals Book Earnings, Why Read Joan Didion, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Apple announced it intends to assemble a line of computers in the United States; novelist Jonathan Evison candidly reveals exactly how much he's earned from his books; Jeanette Winterson, Caroline Leavitt, Lauren Slater, and Lauren Groff discuss why they read Joan Didion; 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.
Raymond Carver's Edited Online Dating Profile, George Eliot's Desk Stolen, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Barnes & Noble will shutter Fictionwise.com and its affiliated e-book sites on December 4; thieves took a portable writing desk used by Middlemarch author George Eliot from the Nuneaton Museum in England; Dwell created a map of independent bookstores across America; and other news.
Unfinished Truman Capote Manuscript Discovered, State of Affairs in Poetryland, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Mike Shatzkin has two pieces of advice for publishers; Alex Balk discusses abandoning his post-modern novel, Slumdog Millionaire screenwriter Simon Beaufoy has written an adaptation of Billy Lynn’s novel, Long Halftime Walk; and other news.
Allan Gurganus Remembers John Cheever, Millionaire Poet Felix Dennis, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Allan Gurganus writes of first meeting his teacher and friend John Cheever; David Carr profiles millionaire magazine publisher Felix Dennis, who is also a best-selling poet; Boris Kachka visits with author Tom Wolfe to discuss Wolfe's new novel, Back to Blood; and other news.
Transgender Writer TT Jax's Struggle for Survival, Eudora Welty's Rejection, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Tips for building your National Novel Writing Month survival kit; Barnes & Noble's founder, Leonard Riggio, intends to build and furnish one hundred homes in New Orleans; young Eudora Welty's failed attempt at landing a job at the New Yorker; and other news.