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A Pair of Presses Join Poetic Forces
by Alex Dimitrov
May/June 2013
Portland, Oregon-based Octopus Books and Tin House Books join forces to collaborate on a new poetry series that carves out a space for a new audience and invigorates the city's poetry community.
Remembering Novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Cabinet Magazine on Trial, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Thessaly La Force remembers prize-winning author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who died yesterday at her home in New York City, at age eighty-five; Aryn Kyle reveals how she spent the advance on her bestselling first novel; Architectural Digest takes a behind-the-scenes tour of the sets designed for Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby; and other news.
Wylie Rumors, Best Books of 2012, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Scholars may soon have full access to the T. S. Eliot's personal papers and correspondence; Greg Olear examines his writing success at forty; rumors of a possible merger or sale of the Wylie Agency are afloat; and other news.
The Poetry of Beginning: Twelve Poets Who Got Things Going in 2007
by Kevin Larimer
November/December 2007
Twelve debut poets talk about their experiences publishing first collections of poetry.
First-Fiction Annual
by Staff
July/August 2007
In our seventh annual profile of first-time fiction writers, we introduce Rishi Reddi, Jeff Hobbs, Frances Hwang, Phil LaMarche, and Sunshine O’Donnell.
U.K. Imprint Attracts Debut Authors
by Neil Baker
January/February 2007
Michael Stephen Fuchs doesn't seem particularly naive or susceptible to exploitation. The fast-talking writer has a successful day job as an Internet consultant, peppers his conversation with literary aphorisms, and, like many debut authors, can talk with an eloquence borne from personal experience about the iniquities of the publishing business. But according to some in the book trade, Fuchs has been suckered.