The Moment of Origin: A Profile of Susan Choi
For novelist Susan Choi, history holds a fascination that can lead to fiction with a present-day relevance.
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Article Archive
Articles from Poet & Writers Magazine include material from the print edition plus exclusive online-only material.
California Complex
Showtime's Californication—a series about a best-selling writer (played by David Duchovny) who succumbs to the glitzy West Coast lifestyle—is renewed for a second season and leaves contributor Ken Gordon wondering, "What's the appeal?"
Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Agent Lynn Nesbit
With more than forty years of experience in the business, agent Lynn Nesbit discusses how she signed some of her biggest clients, how a writer can get an agent’s attention, and what’s wrong with the publishing industry.
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U.S. Postal Rates Up, Editors Down
Low-budget literary magazines are struggling to absorb the impact of the Postal Regulatory Commission's recent ruling in favor of a new pricing structure that favors large-circulation publications with heavy advertising.
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Small Press Points
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features Akashic Books, Belladonna Books, Cool Grove Press, Fence Books, Litmus Press, Ugly Duckling Presse, Four Way Books, and Tin House Books.
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Literary MagNet
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 Southern Humanities Review, Nimrod, Many Mountains Moving, Shenandoah, Virginia Quarterly Review, Notes From the Underground, and Slice.
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Venture Capital for the Literary Set
After sitting through a lecture about the harsh reality of literary publishing, an idealistic MFA grad took action and founded the Literary Ventures Fund, whose mission is to financially support books of all genres.
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Small Press Points
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features Akashic Books, the New Press, Melville House, Seven Stories Press, Disinformation, the Feminist Press, Slope Editions, Essay Press, and Rose Metal Press.
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Killing Them Softly
Nearly three decades after introducing Zuckerman in The Ghost Writer and with the release of Exit Ghost, Philip Roth joins the ranks of authors who have bid farewell to their beloved protagonists.
Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
Page One features a sample of titles we think you'll want to explore. With this installment, we offer excerpts from Rhode Island Notebook by Gabriel Gudding and Bowl of Cherries by Millard Kaufman.
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Q&A: Nicole Cooley and the New MFA
Program director Nicole Cooley discusses the Queens College take on the creative writing degree.
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The Written Image: The Writer's Brush
A look at select images from The Writer’s Brush, a collection of essays paired with visual art produced by some of the world’s most famous writers.
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Literary MagNet
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 American Short Fiction, American Poetry Review, Conjunctions, Fence, Tigertail: A South Florida Poetry Annual, Cave Wall, and Poetry.
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The Democratic Approach to Slush
A new Web site and publishing program offers an alternative to the old slush pile standard by putting a manuscript’s fate in the hands of its readers.
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The Contester: Editor Offers a Contest Alternative
Two years after the demise of the Contemporary Poetry Series, the University of Georgia Press, in conjunction with Virginia Quarterly Review editor Ted Genoways, begins a new series with a traditional editorial approach.
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The Poetry of Beginning: Twelve Poets Who Got Things Going in 2007
Twelve debut poets talk about their experiences publishing first collections of poetry.
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An Interview With Creative Nonfiction Writer A. J. Jacobs
A. J. Jacobs is an editor at large for Esquire and one of the premiere immersion journalists and humorists working today. His previous book, The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to be the Smartest Person in the World (Simon & Schuster, 2004) recounted his attempt to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. His new book, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible,
published this month by Simon & Schuster, tells about another
quixotic endeavor. Needless to say, it was a difficult one, given the
Bible’s eight hundred explicit rules, many of which are bizarre and
unexplained—no mixed fibers; no touching unclean women—plus lots of
guidelines and suggestions.
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Noble Rider: A Profile of Bin Ramke
With the publication of his ninth collection, poet Bin Ramke has emerged as one of the avant-garde's treasured half-secrets.
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Literary MagNet
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 Cave Wall, 1913: A Journal of Forms, Alehouse, Avery, Cadillac Cicatrix, and Rattle.
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Editors Who Can Handle the Truth
The release of three anthologies of creative nonfiction (or literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction or whatever you choose to call it) proves that while difficult to label, there’s little challenge finding representative work for the so-called fourth genre.
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Small Press Points
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.
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Q&A: Teresa Weaver’s View of Reviews
The former Atlanta Journal-Constitution books editor discusses the public response to the elimination of her job and the future of book reviewing.
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